Amazon Price Check May Be Evil But It's the Future

Much of this semester and many of the blogs that I have posted have referred to the changes that technology is bringing to our daily lives.  This article talks about how Amazon has developed an app that would allow you to scan the bar code of an item in a store such as Best Buy or Target and then find the price of that item on Amazon.  This issue has raised obvious concern among retailers because it would allow customers to find the price of their products at a lower cost right in the store.  According to this article Amazon does not have to pay a sales tax since they do not have a physical location so that alone allows them to offer items at a lower cost.  Also they do not have to hire employees to present the product to the customer and make a sales pitch, a customer can go to a store and get information on a product and then purchase it online.  This is a trend that will increase in use and may put an end to many smaller retail stores.  As hard as it may be to accept that this is the future of the retail business it will more than likely become the new source for consumers to find an item at the best and lowest price.  Which may raise another question.  If we are taking all of the retail stores out and people can just access this stuff online, what happens to the employees of that retail store?  Will we see another spike in unemployment due to the layoff of retail store employees?  All of these and many more concerns are raised by this advance in the use of technology.