There’s always a lot of talk about “the next big thing.” Will it be self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, robots, fin-tech, re-tech, cloud computing, block chain, streaming- or something completely different?

We wish we had a crystal ball for the answer to this, but unfortunately we don’t. What we do know is that online retailing took many years to reach a point where it actually became a threat to brick-and-mortar stores.