Brick and Mortar

I keep hearing people say they only shop at brick and mortar stores (instead of online) and then providing the lamest, most hipster reasons for doing so. Some people, I'm sure, are only saying it to appear cool. Others might be doing it because they don't have a credit card or fear the government is watching, both valid reasons. Then there are those people who seriously think that by shopping online they are eliminating the actual stores. This is dumb. 
In 2005, half of the developed world was using this thing called the internet. On this internet, they had shopping. People could purchase things and have them shipped to their homes. It was amazing. As a result, every single store in the world closed and now you can only shop online. Oh, wait, no, that never fucking happened. What did happen was a huge change in competition and the overall retail climate. Sure, a lot of business refused to adapt and went out of business. That was their own fault. But the ones that are still around did and you can order their products online today. 
I get that it's cool to boycott a large corporation, such as Wal-mart, or Amazon. But when you refuse to shop online, you're hurting a legitimate leg of business for most shops. How many small businesses have an Amazon store now? Hell, every Goodwill in each state apparently has one up and running. Record stores, book stores, drug stores, etc. all have them and you're too busy living in 2004 to notice. Good job. Keep fighting the good fight against brick and mortar's global reach. 

In my day, we had to use the internet 

in ten feet of snow, uphill, both ways.