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Things like video stores and pay phones are now basically extinct.
QUESTION: What types of services, businesses do you think will be gone in 10, 20 or 30 years (Movie Theaters? Shopping Malls? etc.)?
Talk about it.
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Hopefully not gas stations.
Travel agencies.
Bank Tellers and Store Clerks; Has already started……
All shelf stable (cans) and dry goods won’t be available on store shelves. They’ll be delivered and only specialty items (meats, prepared and perishable foods) will be sold in smaller stores. The rent per square foot for these huge stores is just too high.
Paper school textbooks. Grade schools and colleges will move to electronic versions of everything, with a publisher able to send you a paper version if needed for an additional fee. Many texts are too heavy, can get damaged, and get quickly outdated with new versions.
It is funny though because research shows that reading physical books leads to more learning retention than reading on a digital forum. Not that schools ever follow actual research or science. Especially in CA.
Most of the brick and mortar stores will be a thing of the past. A lot of big stores I’ve been to have lots of empty shelves. You ask customer service for something they say go online.
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Newspaper publishing.
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Book stores.
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Movie theaters😞
Banks already going away. New world order wants A.I. , digital currency, and a cashless society
That’s why it’s important to use cash again. It took some adjustment but I am back to using cash at the stores and gas stations. People say they don’t feel safe carrying cash. I believe that is on purpose to push us to cashless.
Cable companies. Netflix, iTunes or any such service that people have to pay for movies, music or series. Taxi companies are a thing of the past. Possibly car rental companies. Food deliveries are mostly UberEats so no need for company specific delivery drivers. News channels, reporters, and photographers. Professional photographers, since people seem to no longer go to photo studios for family portraits. As more services/businesses move to an online format, more jobs will be outsourced. Hospitals seem to be outsourcing their advice nurses and customer service jobs (I wonder if they are HIPPA compliant).
My HIPPA has already been breached. I realized it when doctors started treating me for diseases I didn’t even have. And, if you can believe it, somebody stole my CVS rewards! The clerk noticed it one day when something didn’t add up. But I, got the woman’s address. Haven’t decided what to do with it yet. I believe, in the future, everyone will get thoroughly fed up with all this internet nonsense and dump the whole freaking mess. Just a lot of people dancing around like silly chickens, and total information overload. Yes! You heard it here first! I predict the end of the internet!
File a complaint with the hospital or medical practice that failed at protecting your info. Also, be careful when providing hospitals, medical practices with your phone number because, it’s my understanding, that that information goes into a database that later gets sold (IIRC, The Washington Post had an article about it). They tell us that text message appointment reminders are to help us but it’s not, it creates job losses and puts our personal information at risk. Same goes for text messages for medication refills/reminders.
Upholstery shops. Nobody reupholsters furniture anymore. Cheaper to buy new.
Shoe repair shops. Toss and buy new. When’s the last time you’ve had a shoe resoled or a heal replaced?
Vacuum repair shops. Toss and buy new.
You might as well predict the end of the automobile. I can’t imagine what form of transportation you would favor
“My HIPPA has already been breached. I realized it when doctors started treating me for diseases I didn’t even have. ”
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First there is no such thing as HIPPA, it’s called HIPAA “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”, but why would you think that a Dr. treating you for a disease you don’t have would be a violation of HIPAA?
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Generally it prohibits healthcare providers and healthcare businesses, called covered entities, from disclosing protected information to anyone other than a patient and the patient’s authorized representatives without their consent.
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Are suggesting a healthcare provider or healthcare business disclosed protected information to your doctor?
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Seems to me if Drs. treat you for diseases you have not been diagnosed that this medical malpractice and/or insurance fraud but not an indication of a HIPAA violation.
@JWB. I wrote HIPPA, my bad, I wrote it wrong by accident. It’s my understanding that there is a HIPAA loophole that covered entities can use to sell patients’ info. I agree though that malpractice/insurance fraud applies in this type of situation.
You mean like how all sorts of advertising for baby products mysteriously show up in your mail near the due date? There is no other way for your name and address to have gotten to retailers of baby items.
You’re correct. A phone number maintained in a designated record set with other identifying information is PHI (Protected Health Information). However, if phone number, a name and other identifying information (address, name of spouse, etc.) is maintained in a database that does not include health information, it is not considered PHI under HIPAA
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However in the example of a Dr. treating a non diagnosed health condition it is hard to see how that would be indicative of a HIPAA violation. Seems a little strange that a healthcare business would share random diagnosis (which was actually not diagnosed) and that a Dr. would treat without confirming that shared diagnosis.
Actually a phone number or address together with health information i.e. pregnancy and/or due date would be protected PHI under HIPAA.
Clearly it’s not enforced. I know a couple whose first child was stillborn, but was showered with advertising for products for them to buy. Each trip to the mailbox was a new reminder for them. It was really scumbag thing for the doctors to sell their names when this can happen.
@ JWB “Generally … it prohibits healthcare providers … from disclosing … protected information.” Right JWB! “Generally!” We all know how that works … they’re mind readers, right?
@JWB It’s like how we weren’t supposed to look at photos that came back from processing at Photomat, but eventually just about everybody did. Were really surprised to see more than our share of naked wives and girlfriends in those photos. When I pointed out that my HIPPA had been breached and requested an alert on my data saying so, I got no argument from the information providers. Anyone who can open the file can look at the information. And anyone who sees the information in it can tell somebody else about it.
Classrooms – has already proven the quality of education currently delivered is sub-par … I could see where it will be all online from a quality run delivery of higher standards than we currently have (which won’t be hard to do given educators teach to the “lowest common denominator” now).
Too many to list, but to name a few, customer service, sales, cashiers, banking, shipping, and manufacturing, are already on the way out, and automation is taking over.
If all the stores close, it’s gonna put all the looters out of business.
Classic!
Hey those aren’t looters, they’re Newsom voters, and he’s counting on them.
If that’s the case, the only store that will be left standing is workwear. I’ve never seen one of those newscum voters looting a place that sells work boots and work clothes 🤔 hey everyone, wanna hear a joke?? How do you hide your cash from liberals…..?? Put it in your work boots! 😆
Hopefully, google, pfizer, moderna and the likes. We do not need these Taliban agencies in America.
Pharmacies, including the over the counter items.
Especially in California where shoplifters clean out the cold and flu aisles daily, and people get robbed of prescriptions while walking to their car.
Best Buys. With the dictate to sell only electric vehicles, and the dictate to no longer build residences that utilize natural gas, and the dictate to limit/drastically reduce/eliminate the use of fossil fuels, the demand for electricity to charge the electric vehicles and electric stoves to cook our dictated meal of cricket powder and meal worms will limit the amount of electricity used for pleasurable activities, so the dictate will be no more electric powered entertainment, only power for the inhouse monitoring systems that will be installed, so no need for Best Buy. May not be in 30 years, maybe by 2084.
Businesses that make turn signals. No one uses them anymore.
I wish I had a dollar for each time I wanted to change lanes on the freeway, looked, had space, signaled, and that turn signal to the other car was the sign to hit the gas and come ripping up like a bat out of hell to cut me off. I signal less than half the time now on freeways.
“Right turn Clyde.”
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