Why traditional retail stores are bound to fail

I never really felt sorry for brick and mortar stores struggling with the online revolution. As far as I was concerned, this was progress. Adapt or fail. But today I was forced into a retail shopping experience (because of my own poor planning) and I was especially glad I never wasted any sympathy on retail stores. Four different stores in three different strip malls. All I needed was an SD memory card for my Nikon. I figured that 32GB would be overkill, so I was looking for 16GB. I checked…