July 17, 2028 — Traditional online stores have been scrambling to match the success of BeamEx, which in just five years has become the nation’s largest retailer by teleporting goods directly to consumers.
The Seattle-based company now stands ahead of both Amazon and WalKMart in terms of total annual sales. BeamEx was the first Web-based retailer to provide on-demand online purchasing, allowing consumers to order any item online and have it immediately “beamed” into their living rooms.
Amazon, WalKMart and other retailers have badly stumbled in their forays into on-demand teledelivery, prompting more and more consumers to migrate to BeamEx for shopping. Many BeamEx copycats have been plagued by a variety of delivery problems, including molecularly incomplete deliveries and botched orders.
For example, Isabella Ringen, an Ames, Ia. widow, said she placed an order on Amazon for a new wind chime for her front porch, but instead received a six-month supply of condoms. And Carl Bonate, a Florida State University sophomore, said he ordered a six-pack of cola that was delivered to his lap with the bottoms of the cans missing, resulting in soda spilling all over his pants.
Retail analysts say traditional stores are victims of their own complacency, allowing BeamEx to perfect the teleportation model and establish a huge market lead. And renowned personal injury lawyer Chase M. Bulance warns that stores such as Amazon are exposing themselves to civil suits if they don’t rectify their delivery problems.
“It’s only a matter of time,” Bulance says, “until a little old lady orders a hot cup of coffee that comes with the bottom of the container missing.”
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