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Conventionally, when we need something, we visit the market, enter the shops, and ask for our commodities. But with shopping apps having come up, all we need is just look up the items in our mobile phone, click on it, make the payment, and lo! in 10 minutes the door bell rings and the commodity arrives. Isn't it the exact relation between a server and the client ??

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

ook up the items in our mobile phone, click on it, make the payment, and lo! in 10 minutes the door bell rings and the commodity arrives

Um. If you really live like that you should change now.

I always get flustered when I see statements like these. I do my shopping IRL. In the past I used to visit specialised shops (electronics parts etc.) - but I lived urban then, now I live in the countryside and I almost exclusively order such stuff online. That has changed.

Am I an exception? Doesn't look like it when I go shopping.

[–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The market is turning into a giant server?

No. Online shopping has existed for over 25 years and in all those places physical markets still exist.

[–] adb@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

And before you had mail orders

[–] LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The model might be online, but is the method same as today ?

[–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are asking.

[–] LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

You said that online shopping has existed since 25 years...... Wait a second..... That's after Y2K, right ??

[–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

I said over 25 years, so before Y2K.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

Doesn't matter. It didn't become prevalent until ~10 years later, at least where I live.

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I personally would be thrilled if day-to-day commerce could be settled using HTTP return codes. If I could IP-block the small-talk, DNS blackhole the advertisements, and just do precisely the transactional things I have to do, without being accosted by pushy salespeople, the inconvenience of driving and parking in car-dependent suburbia with no realistic, properly-funded transit options, this would honestly be great.

The modern in-person shopping experience is not a place of honor. It is an affront to call shopping malls and big-box stores as "the future" when it so degrades the human experience, reducing people into wallets with emotions ripe for exploitation.

Online shopping did not kill in-person shopping. The in-person shopping experience destroyed itself, poisoning the idea for whole swaths of the next generation. Only time can possibly heal these deep wounds.

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 2 points 19 hours ago

Mostly it's just cheaper due to lower staff and rent costs, and maybe more efficient logistics, and less travel time / search cost for customer.

I still like in person shopping though, when i can, just pay the premium to be able to see what I'm buying and poke it a few times to check the quality.

Agree about large car park based shopping centres though, they're shite.

It'd be nice to have town centre back and real markets. Drive out the infestation of fucking hipster food stalls charging over a tenner for lunch. But there just isn't the trade to support more than a few real market stalls in my town.