Remember the few short years ago when the only retailers selling clothes online were the ones crazy enough to do it. Now, there are subscription boxes and digital personal stylists that can make up the gap between customer service through traditional in-store channels and the convenience and lower prices of online shopping.
Now, however, the influence of not just online retail but the consumer expectations wrought from its advent are having a reverse-flow kind of effect on brick-and-mortar retail, and it might be a signal of the in-store times to come.