[Backgammon]

Matrix stores are open 24/7, omae.

Physical stores by 207x will be largely what they are becoming today: demo booths. The physical store experience is an amusement park. It's there for the experience, for th  attention, for handling the goods. Not for actually making sales. People go online for that.

I imagine logistics is probably 24/7. You can probably order something online and pay for express shipping and get it in your hands 2-4 hours later, no matter what time. Order at midnight, get it at 2 am. I mean, the distribution centres are fully automate, so NOT operating them 24/7 wouldn't make sense.

[CitizenJoe]

Canonical Stuffer Shack would imply that things aren't all matrix commerce.

[Fabe]

Canonical Stuffer Shack would imply that things aren't all matrix commerce.

 True but  many of the physical stores still offer matrix services even stuff shack.

[gradivus]

Among the many things open at 3am, there's both a 24 hour Brooks Brothers and a 24 hour White House Black Market in NYC... so whether you are a man or a woman you can get dress clothes when you want. I don't know about most places- but anything the size of LA, NYC, Hong Kong, you're going to be able to get almost anything day or night.

[Backgammon]

Canonical Stuffer Shack would imply that things aren't all matrix commerce.

I'm not saying exclusively so, and indeed, this wouldn't apply to all form of retailing. Food is not going to be mostly matrix (though it certainly will have a portion: you can probably get a drone to deliver you a burrito at a moments notice) and things like convenience stores aren't going to go away.

There are a lot of considerations at play when considering the future of shopping. It's not all about efficiency. While something CAN exist, such as the idea of omnipresent matrix shopping, as humans it's going to be hard to shake off the social aspect of going to a store.

I suspect that wageslaves will have a certain behaviour pattern, and non-corpses will have another. Wageslaves, working 100 hour week standard, are going to want to be pretty efficient in their shopping and matrix order everything. Hell, they probably all subscribe to recurring service stores, the kind that simply deliver you new clothes picked out just for you every month. They don't go shopping. It's all delivered for them. Their whole lives are managed for them. They call it efficiency and sneer at the non-corpses and their primitive ways, while non-corpses shake their heads sadly at the wageslaves that no longer experience any pleasure of freedom, such as going to a store and walking around and picking out clothes and making bad, good and best choices.

[Mirikon]

Among the many things open at 3am, there's both a 24 hour Brooks Brothers and a 24 hour White House Black Market in NYC... so whether you are a man or a woman you can get dress clothes when you want. I don't know about most places- but anything the size of LA, NYC, Hong Kong, you're going to be able to get almost anything day or night.

Well, there will always be a couple places in a sprawl the size of NYC, but again, those cater to a 24 hour clientele. You're going to find them few and far between, and typically only in the higher-traffic (and higher-security) sectors. Most places will close down for the night, though. With 24 hour matrix ordering available, there just isn't the demand for emergency wardrobe changes or the like at 3AM to support more than, say, 1 or 2 stores per type in the sprawl. (Which means anyone that knows you're needing those services, and quick, knows where to look for you.) As I said, criminal elements keep their own hours, so a lot of the black markets will likely be open at night and closed in the day.

[Senko]

So basically you have 24 hour stores in a few areas e.g. black market and 24 hour matrix delivery in the rest with most shops being open for a time range and the more popular having drone delivery outside that..

[Kincaid]

Since one of the aspects I really like about Shadowrun is the gulf between the haves and the have-nots, this is something that I play up in-game.  Characters used to living one way find the transition abrupt, which is always fun.  The guttersnipe shows up to rob the store at 3am it's open.  The rich face comes up with a perfect plan that requires a few purchases but finds himself in rural Salish territory.