Are brick-and-mortar stores dying? More specifically, in the future will there be fewer and fewer physical stores until at some point, there are no physical stores in existence?

After reading these articles, I believe that brick-and-mortar stores are not dying. In today’s digital environment, no one can stop brick-and mortar stores from going online. Ecommerce is capturing more and more market share, online and mobile commerce continue to grow for both web-based and traditional retailers. Most of examples and statistical data in these articles show the recession of brick-and mortar stores, like in the last holiday season, there is only half the holiday foot traffic of 2010 (Is the death of brick-and mortar retail a myth?); the Sears store in Coralville is going out of business (Death of sears). With the rapid development of digital commerce, it is a constant fact that there be fewer and fewer physical stores.
Even the number of brick-and mortar stores is going down, but I still believe the quality for them is rising, and the presence of physical stores is necessary, and there still have many reasons for physical stores existing. As mentioned in the articles, some physical stores can offer unique experience that consumers cannot get online, such as providing opportunities for customers to touch and feel merchandise, gain expert advice from customer service. In addition, we cannot deny the fact that there are some brick-and-mortar model more successful than online model, like health and personal care products, food and grocery, and it shows the necessary for the presence of physical stores. In addition, web traffic is driving brick-and-mortar expansion. There have an example, which is very convictive for me: “Internet traffic played a significant role in how UK retailer Ted Baker honed their U.S. expansion, opening in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York”. We