32 — Friday, May 9, 1997 ~ North Shore News
INQUIRING. REPORTER Will the Intérnet’ ‘chanic

making her triumphant return trom

liy arrives home harried but happy,

weighed down by armloads of purchases. In the not-so-dis-

tant future, however, success at the mall could be measured

by the number of hits on the Internet rather than bays of

vodies. ‘The internet, that great expander of horizons, might

: ctually make our world smaller: no more tips to the store,

| MQUITENT no visits to the bank — everything done from the comfort,

__—__] J reporter and confines, of our own homes. The move toward total

“~~ automation has already begun: telephone banking, catalogue

and television shopping, But the Internet offers access to a world of shopping in less time

than it takes to stand in linc. Will retail stores disappear as we became computer con-
sumeyrs, Or are we too enamored with the tactile shopping experience to cybershop?

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Horseshoe Bay 35% 39.5% 28.5%
Dundarave/Ambleside 28.5% 33% 39.5%
British Properties 27% 46% 27%
Norgate/Pemberton Heights 35% 40% 25%
Capilano/Delbrook Highlands 41% 36% 23%
Lower Lonsdale 30% 27% 43%
Central and Upper Lonsdale 36%, 36% 28%
Tan Valley 30% 33% 37%
~!_ Sridge/Deep Cove 53% 20% 27%

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Nathalie and Pat Post
North Vancouver
ie: Yes. We're living in an
ion age and the industrial
age is fading. It won't happen next
year, but it’s detinitely a trend.

Nicola Norman
Abbotsford

{ don't think so because I
don’t think people wiil buy
what they can’t see. Not the
overall population.

Kevin House

North Vancouver

Not anytime soon. Maybe
in the states — they seem
to be more into catalogue,
sight-unseen — shopping.
Canadians generally want
to test drive things before
we buy them.

Pat: Definitely. If it’s more conve-
nient people are going to take
advantage of it.

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Transit meeting set

Mount Seymour Parkway.
Additional service on the #215

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Indian River-Phibbs Exchange route
is also being considered, said B.C.
Transit.

The meeting will be held Friday,
May 9 at Ron Andrews Recreation
Centre at 931 Lytton, from 6 to 9
p.m. For more information, call 540-

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The only exception will be for accident ts
involving vehicles from out-of-province.
West Vancouver Police ask motorists not
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