daytripper wrote:

Don't look now, but the only thing keeping brick'n'mortar retail alive in the
face of internet commerce is the need for instant gratification.

Get past that and you can pretty much kiss those folks goodbye...

There's also the thing about actually seeing what you're buying......

I'll buy beads, hooks, thread, synthetics, etc. on line, but not fur or
feathers. I've had to send too much stuff back, including stuff from
"premium" brand names like Whiting and from big established nationally
known fly shops.....

Given the appallingly wide range in the quality of cork on the grips of
even top-of-the-line rod makers these days, I'd also never buy a rod
before seeing it.

JR