I wonder if there is even a niche for a certain type of 'shop' that doesn't actually sell anything on site, but merely acts as a display/conduit for delivered sales, keeping minimal stock in small premises with samples of sizes, materials, colours, etc, which are then ordered and delivered straight to the home? You could, subject to pandemic status at the time, have just a few samples in each size, and swatches of materials available, etc. You would need good control of the manufacturing.
Sometimes, you do need to see the actual thing - I remember my father buying a table that turned out to be a footstool.
For many years, I staked out the Moben/Dolphin shop, where Mothercare had been, and never actually saw a customer in there - presumably they did sell stuff to enough people, as a result of them perusing the displays and then availing of home survey visits.
To some extent, MFI worked like that, too. We had enough left from a bespoke wardrobe kit to make one more shelf, but only one extra support left, so we needed three more - they insisted on posting them, when the postage at the time was 19p, each support was 17p, and they didn't charge postage on the 'consignment'. I wanted to go back and order a single one. It would have been better for them if I had just stolen three from the displays.