All that has been historically required for a megashopalous to shrivel to an even more profitable micro-outlet, such as a kiosk, is the nearly effortless reduction of inventory from a half-million items to say ten or twenty. It's important to point out that miniaturization is not a cheap technology, so shoppers purchasing from a kiosk may expect to pay twenty, thirty, or a thousand percent markups on goods in order to offset the costs of doing business with such a technologically advanced merchant. These markups are especially conspicuous when it comes to beads in New Orleans, shot glasses in New New The Vegas, and Pearls in the undersea water park of New Old Hawaii.

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