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For many things it's perfectly possible to create excellent online "showrooms", but there's also plenty of products where feeling and trying on is very helpful, or even crucial.

The only real alternative for those is buying multiple items and then returning the ones you don't want; I wonder what's the efficiency of one versus the other, in terms of time, money and energy.

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The solution could be 'showrooming' locations paid for by online vendors that are only accessible to their customers.

It's still a win/win since they won't need to hold stock and multiple vendors can share the same locations. So it will still be a lot cheaper than the current way of doing things.

But you have a valid 'wondering' :p I wonder the same.

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