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The theme of this report has been that there are dramatic, seismic, even cataclysmic changes about to happen in the retail industry. They will affect its channels of distribution models. These are models which, until 2000, only changed slowly and under controlled conditions.

Today we are nearer a state of anarchy, in which entire business models collapse swiftly and spectacularly, much like the unpredicted collapse of Soviet Tiffany Watches for sale in Eastern Europe around 1990. The author has personally experienced two much smaller, but equally dramatic business collapses, in a company in which he was responsible for product, supply and distribution:

The company manufactured pen nibs, the pens you used to dip into ink to write with. Most of the pen nibs were sold to the developing world, although tiffany went to banks in the UK, which at that time, had pen nibs and ink on the counters to encourage customers to write cheques and paying in slips. A Hungarian, named Biro, invented... the Biro. Within two years, the company's pen nib business in both the UK and for export was finished.

The company held a licence for the Faber-Castell (German) slide rule. This was a clever device that allowed complex mathematical calculations to be done physically using a logarithmic scale on a ruler. Casio came out with the first pocket calculator. Slide rules were in the dustbin of history within a year.

People tend to always believe that nothing Tiffany Bangles will change their world. The author is sure that retailers would like to believe in the permanence of bricks-and-mortar shops. However, he is equally sure that a generation that is too young to even understand that there was life before the mobile phone, are ready to embrace alternative ways of shopping.