Story Idea

BUYING THE FUTURE - (St. Augustine) - Thanks to the internet and the changes it's brought about, many young people can barely remember a time when they had to go to a store to rent movies, or buy music or even their video games. Electronic entertainment has been digital for sometime now, and thanks to the internet its distribution is going digital as well. iTunes allows people to purchase whole albums and movies, Netflix delivers movie rentals through the mail or instantly streamed to your computer, and every major video game console provides an automated store to purchase games or additional game content morning, noon and night. In the face of all this convenience, is there anything that brick and mortar stores can do to draw in those sales besides emulate their digital competition? Or will retail outlets go the way of the encyclopedia salesman, disappearing in favor of faster shipping and streaming content?