{"id":1881,"date":"2017-02-26T01:18:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2017-02-26T01:18:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:18:06","slug":"e-commerce-is-killing-retail-and-thats-ok-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/26\/e-commerce-is-killing-retail-and-thats-ok-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"E-COMMERCE is KILLING RETAIL and THAT&#8217;S OK &#8211; part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is productivity.\u00a0 Amazon needs half as many workers to sell $100 worth of merchandise as Macy&#8217;s does.\u00a0 Do we need more rapid growth of the government to protect local businesses, farmers, etc?\u00a0 Protection from imports means that, so more outsourcing of jobs.\u00a0 Remember Macy&#8217;s flagship Manhattan store was one reason Gimbels nearby flagship closed in 1986 after 76 years in business.\u00a0 In 1945 Gimbels was the lst American merchant to offer &#8220;a fantastic, atomic era, miraculous pen&#8221;.\u00a0 It was the ball point.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is productivity.\u00a0 Amazon needs half as many workers to sell $100 worth of merchandise as Macy&#8217;s does.\u00a0 Do we need more rapid growth of the government to protect local businesses, farmers, etc?\u00a0 Protection from imports means that, so more outsourcing of jobs.\u00a0 Remember Macy&#8217;s flagship Manhattan store was one reason Gimbels nearby flagship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}