Hockey could be a fairly solid niche market. In many parts of the country, the selection of products is fairly scarce.
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We've found time and time again that sales taxes did not have a significant impact (on online sales decisions), ... Sales tax is a smaller issue for consumers.Ken Cassar
This could be a critical inflection point for online retail. If either company can make its offer work, free shipping could become the industry norm. But if the companies can't divine the sweet spot, and they end up losing money, this could be the last time we'll see any such offers -- except for very limited, one-time deals. I don't think either of them knows if it's going to work out economically or not, ... The only way to know is to try.
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This is the opposite of the recent Levi online situation. Levi was seen as cutting out its retail partners to get to their customers directly online,
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I don't think they can do it. In order for Buy.com to make any money off of this, their order size has to be two units per order. There's no incentive in the offer to drive the order that high.
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It means you don't have to hand off each purchase and pray that some other guy is going to deliver it properly.
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Skeptical retailers eyeing fluctuations in the financial market and the increasing failure rates of Internet companies are often blind to the most important issue - specifically, the degree to which their online efforts will affect their off-line business. Online consumers are a very powerful audience and tend to be channel-agnostic. And as consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.
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