When I was a kid, we had both a Sears and Wards outlet stores here. You could order from the catalogs and have them delivered or somethings could be picked up in stores. Those went away, but for years, Sears still had the catalog and still had a store pick up option. I've seen some of that coming back (order/pick up at local store, etc), and expect somewhat a mixture of that and an Amazon style thing, where you don't need x number of "store fronts" across a metro area, but a warehouse with a small retail/pickup section.