tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post4377598881574008271..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: Court St. Office SuppliesJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-59749183514246058002018-02-09T09:59:43.729-05:002018-02-09T09:59:43.729-05:00Another place I have stopped by many a time for a ...Another place I have stopped by many a time for a pen, some paper and greeting card. The staff was always professional there and helpful. That is such a bland section of shops along that row yet this was a lovely little shop to stop in. Internet shopping, and maybe all the CVS, Duane Reades, and Staples that sell much of what they carry. It is sad and it is obvious when you go in a place like this that it has a target on its head.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10853488434569768367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-47236610274144432882018-02-06T08:23:10.257-05:002018-02-06T08:23:10.257-05:00"So blame this one on Internet shoppers."..."So blame this one on Internet shoppers."<br /><br />This is a completely serious and sober query, not the "trolling" you sometimes accuse - isn't "blaming Internet shoppers" akin to blaming automobile drivers for putting livery stables out of business, or blaming telephone users for making the Pony Express obsolete, or blaming electric streetlights for eliminating the job of lamplighter?<br /><br />Advances in technology have always changed the essential and quotidian ways we live our lives; objecting to this fact of life opens one up to being called a Luddite or a crank, doesn't it? (Although there are, as we know, people who are perfectly happy and proud to be called Luddites and cranks.)Scouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07860208585189661470noreply@blogger.com