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As we move forward with technology, the need and desire to go to a physical location to purchase goods will diminish in value. Eventually the brick and mortar retail shop will transform into a staging area for individuals and businesses to pick up items purchased on-line.

Time or lack thereof, to be more specific will be the driving force behind this transition. As increasing demands from our business lives and other commitments are placed on our personal lives, individuals will quickly begin to look for ways to economize their actions in order to retain more of their own personal time.

Time to spend with family members, devotion to spiritual growth and community involvement will all take precedence over what will soon be viewed as poor time management chasing after physical merchandise.

Let us look at a common sequence of events for many families during summer. A family plans a weekend at the lake in order to spend quality time together on their boat, but part of their plans currently have to include a visit to the local grocery store in order to shop and pick up food for the weekend, as a result valuable time is lost, which could be spent with each other.

Current and developing technology of on-line shopping will reduce the amount of wasted time and effort, and increase this family's time together. As an example, refrigerators with built in software that can automatically send an electronic order to a grocery store of the consumers choice is currently available and being developed further.

Place your milk in the pre designated location in your refrigerator, and sensors relay a message (based on weight) to your grocery store, which places an order for milk. Expand this concept for frozen meats, cheese ad infinitum and you have on-line grocery orders being fulfilled based upon consumption rates and eliminating time consuming trips to the grocer.

Let us expand this even further and you can see how a pre programmed picnic menu could just as easily be sent electronically. The questions then becomes, would you rather spend your time at the grocery store shopping, or would you rather swing by and pick up an electronically placed order which allows you and your family to arrive at the lake even earlier?

As individuals place a greater value on their personal time, actions which don't incorporate time management philosophy will be replaced with a time economy mindset.
This article only takes into account one factor of many including environmental waste, over crowding of roadways etc.

Economize your actions, minimize your waste and increase personal time will all be tag lines of e-commerce sites in the future.

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