Offline businesses

Grim

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Is anyone here into any offline businesses? I'm curious if any of you have transitioned or thought about transitioning from online to a brick and mortar store or local service.
 
Depends what you mean by offline - is any business really completely offline?
 
There are only really a few industries that are still basically required to have to be brick and mortar: sit down restaurants on in-person entertainment venues (restaurants are one of the most-likely-to-fail businesses that you can start and as far as entertainment even strip clubs have lost market share to online entertainment) ... certain healthcare facilities such as urgent care or clinics where a doctor actually has to touch their patient to provide service (healthcare industry has been highly affected by the telehealth movement so unless you are going to build a hospital...); beauty salons and the like... It's not a complete list but it's also not going to be a long list however you look at it.

You could start a business that caters specifically to older people that are less tech-friendly but then you are starting something where your clientele is going to gradually die off and your business will become more and more obsolete with time.

There is not a lot of benefit that I can see to opening a brick and mortar business, especially not for retail or marketing or any of the things most of the people on this forum are probably working on. If I can run a digital marketing firm from a laptop on the beach then what is to be gained by having to pay rent for office space or a mortgage on a building? There are easier ways to profit off of real estate and none of them involve using lucrative property to house a business that could just as easily be managed online for a fraction of the overhead costs. JMO
 
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