How can retailers revive brick and mortar shopping? At Astoria’s Weird Sisters Freak Boutique, the answer is to infuse it with art. Here, shoppers can buy used clothes under a ceiling of stalactites and hear jokes from “experience-tenders” in a speakeasy that sells no alcohol. The space is part interactive art installation, part retail experience. Online shopping is cheap and easy but picking up an Amazon box from the front porch isn’t exactly a memorable experience. “I think the future of retail is going to be highly immersive,” said owner Sondra Carr, “because people don’t necessarily want to get up off their couches and come down into a town just to shop anymore.” Read more at the link in our bio. 📹: halejamesb #astoria #astoriaoregon #weirdsisters #macbeth #weirdsistersfreakboutique #boutique #secondhand #thrifting #oregon #theoregonian #hereisoregon #traveloregon