He said the High Street must work hard to compete with out-of-town shopping centres and the internet.
The convenience of online shopping and the ability to make price comparisons on the Internet has completely changed retail trends in the past decade.
They either used a car-broking service or did their window shopping and price comparisons on the Internet and used a broker to line up a local deal.
When it comes to holiday shopping on the Internet and the breakneck pace of deliveries during December, no other companies offer as much information about the health of the consumer-led U.S. economy.
Blurring the line between in-store price comparison shopping and stay at home shopping via the Internet, IBM (IBM) reported the number of consumers using their mobile device to make a purchase on Black Friday this year increased by nearly two-thirds from 2011.
In all three cases the growth of internet traffic and online shopping affected the structure of the industry, not just prices.
The struggle to make a profit and reduce debt is still being waged at some big companies, including Daiei, once the biggest supermarket chain, Japan Airlines, Sanyo Electric, Rakuten, the biggest internet shopping mall, and Softbank (though the last could be cushioned by its large holding of Yahoo Japan shares).
The growth of internet shopping and relocation of some UK companies to take advantage of the relief prompted some to criticise the Channel Islands as a base for the "exploitation" of the system.
Meanwhile, the less affluent are doing more to feed the goddesses of the shopping malls and Internet servers than their wealthier counterpart.
It begs the question, with the Web still accounting for such a small percentage of retail sales, and online growth now projected to slow from the pace of the last few years--will consumers ever break through and adopt the Internet as a shopping channel significant enough to break through single digits as a percentage of overall sales?
The next step is to accept that its problems will only get worse, since the effects of the Internet on physical stores will only get stronger as more consumers use the Internet for research and shopping.
Given that they can also get a religious, sporting or cultural fix by turning on the television, and do their shopping as well as their work on the internet, why live in a city?
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Mr Lewis published a consultation on the government's regeneration policy on Monday, which says out-of-town and internet shopping pose "a fundamental challenge to the retail-dominated role of our town centres".
It pointed out the proposals were drawn up in 2007, before the recession and the rise of internet shopping.
Both companies are virtual utilities, shopping for cheap capacity and selling it over the internet, which makes for low overheads.
Only browse the Internet and do online shopping during lunch or other breaks.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is on a shopping spree, and Internet telephone providers are at the top of his list.
All three combine to represent the logical future of personal computing: surfing, shopping and downloading the Net from your car, cell phone and TV set, and from portable Internet appliances.
While camp life is hardly cosmopolitan, some of the young can meet foreigners, have access to the Internet and occasionally slip out to a nearby town, or even the shopping malls and bright lights of Bangkok, Thailand's capital.
And today you can do your home and shopping in the comfort of your own home on the Internet.
Appliances, home delivery, the internet, 24-hour shopping, and more varied and affordable domestic services have increased flexibility and freed up people's time.
It is a magnet to cyber-entrepreneurs who dream of pushing the computer revolution into new areas: companies such as American Cybercast, which is trying to pioneer entertainment on the Internet, Virtual Emporium (Internet shopping) and Digital Domain (special effects).
Internet and out-of-town shopping present a fundamental challenge to the traditional role of town centres as a places to shop, it says.
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Many of us depend on the Internet and digital tools in our daily lives -- from shopping at home and banking on our mobile devices to sharing information with friends across the globe.
If this deal works for Prince - and it wouldn't for new or successful artists - then it could mean the end for music retailers reeling from the effect of internet shopping, says John Aizlewood, a music critic and broadcaster.
In January 2011, 21.8% of men and 13.7% of women stated they plan to spend more time shopping by the Internet.
When Streamline, an Internet home shopping service, sends you a cup of coffee and a video, the first comes from Starbucks, the second from Blockbuster.
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