Cyber Monday came and went this week in America—and it was the biggest shopping day of the year. More people logged onto their computers to make purchases than went out on Black Friday, the traditional day for shop-til-you-drop purchasing. The Continue Reading...
Comparing Amazon and eBay is really like comparing apples and oranges. The two, while appearing to be the same on the surface, are really nothing alike once the superficial labels are peeled off. eBay began as a C2C ecommerce site -- consumers sellin Continue Reading...
Why the Growth of Online Shopping Will Not Lead to the Demise of Brick-and-Mortar Stores The number of online shoppers has steadily grown over the last two decades. In addition to saving time, online shopping is immensely convenient. Indeed, all a cu Continue Reading...
Innovation in Retail One recent innovation in retail is e-commerce, which has totally altered the way that customers can shop and consume. For brick and mortar retailers, a crossroads of sorts has arrived. Should they turn to the technological advanc Continue Reading...
Amazon.com: Technology and Market Share Much of what drives Amazon is technology. As it states in its mission statement, Amazon sees that their "vision is to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find an Continue Reading...
Amazon and eBay. Both companies were among the first movers into the Internet. Amazon opened the doors to its online store in July, 1995 and completed its initial public offering in 1997. eBay was also founded in 1995 and went public in 1998. These Continue Reading...
New-found competitiveness for Small- to Medium-Sized Companies The outlook for smaller companies is much stronger today than it was at Amazon's founding. That's because several of the advantages enjoyed at the time by Amazon have been commoditized Continue Reading...
eBook vs. traditional books The rise of eBooks and the death of print Despite the surprising success of a number of book 'franchises' such as the Harry Potter novels, The Hunger Games, and Fifty Shades of Grey, commentators continue to predict the Continue Reading...
Online vs. Traditional Shopping The tremendous growth of the Internet over the past decade has given a significant boost to e-commerce and made online shopping a part of every-day experience of many people. However, since online shopping is still a Continue Reading...
Microsoft Vista Physical vs. Digital Products -- Physical products are those that can be touched, felt, have physical presence, must be produced, warehoused, packaged, shipped and purchased. However, physical products are most certainly not limited Continue Reading...
FIRST vs. LATE MOVERS Strategic Management First vs. late-mover theory First mover theory seems intuitively 'correct' given the commonly-cited cliche that the 'early bird gets the worm.' This could also be interpreted as 'the early bird gets the c Continue Reading...
Introduction The target market for Best Buy is appliance and electronics consumers—people in the 18-35 year range, though the retailer does target older adults as well as “millennials” (ISU College of Business). Its main target is d Continue Reading...
Brick or Click From rural strip-malls to Manhattan’s avenues, it has been a disastrous past few years for retail. There have been nine retail bankruptcies in 2017—as many as all of 2016. J.C. Penney, RadioShack, Macy’s and Sears hav Continue Reading...
online retailing operates, what kind of problems they face and the kind of environment they operate in. The author has also focused on Asian online retailing and special focus on Hong Kong online retailing. It has 22 sources. Access of basic necess Continue Reading...
Computers Books in Brick and Mortar to Brick and Click Barnes & Noble One of the most striking additions to the World Wide Web has been that of Barnes and Noble. This is a traditional brick and mortar bookstore that has become a brick and clic Continue Reading...
Product Distribution Is Changing The much-predicted demise of the middlemen, including the fundamental re-ordering of entire distribution networks including the onslaught of the direct selling model, has failed to materialize. The revolution and ra Continue Reading...
Executive Summary Sears is a retail company that offers a range of products and services via brick and mortar locations and online shopping portals. Its brand focuses on offering quality proprietary brand products and in-home services in an industry Continue Reading...
Yahoo vs. Amazon This report will present a compare and contrast between Yahoo and Amazon. The core business and histories of the two businesses will be discussed. Following that, there will be a description of the key strategic differences between Continue Reading...
BEST BUY CO. INC. STRATEGIC ANALYSIS Strategic Analysis of Best Buy Current situation A- Current performance B- Strategic posture Corporate Governance A- Board of directors B- Top management External Environment: Opportunities and threats A- Continue Reading...
Ebay needs of to pay attention to brand equity and get back to the basics of offering good customer service to its customer base. Otherwise, it is an open market for anyone to step in and take their place. Losing focus of brand and company vision ha Continue Reading...
CanGo: Competitive Analysis Due to recent acquisitions and expansions of its operations as well as the changing nature of the retail industry as a whole, CanGo operates in several different market segments. This can make a competitive analysis of th Continue Reading...
Being sure that their book is current on all distribution sites, in addition to on the self-publishers' site is critically important. Leading Self-Publishing Companies Globally Of the over 60 self-publishers or print-on-demand publishers in existe Continue Reading...
The company showed a global reach early, adding numerous language versions around the world. In 2000, the company reached 18 million search queries per day and officially became the world's largest search engine ("Google, Inc." paras. 11-14). The c Continue Reading...
Where we are now with Walmart is at a critical juncture in retail. Amazon and e-commerce has continued to dominate the retail space once led by brick-and-mortars. Walmart has had to shift its focus from being a primarily brick-and-mortar store chain Continue Reading...
Com industry crash after the boom This is a paper examining some of the factors that caused the dot-com crash Many believe the root cause of the dot-com crash was over valuation of stock prices relative to the actual underlying value of the compan Continue Reading...
Decision Making Barnes and Noble Inc. is one of the most successful bookstores in the world. The company operates throughout the United States and boasts roomy inviting stores. In addition to books, the company also sells DVDs and music. The company Continue Reading...
Third is a series of passwords and personal information chosen by the customer. On top of this they guarantee customers that if they are victims of fraudulent activity on their Egg accounts, any losses are covered in full. "This has never happened," Continue Reading...
com. In case of several companies, enhancing customer relationships is among the most capable features of e-commerce. However, whereas the Internet has presented the consent of a novel method to draw and communicate with the customer, hardly few ente Continue Reading...
Tesco, the largest UK company, employs 260,000 people. This corporation has global aspirations and has come a long way in a relatively short period of time" (2003, p. 3). According to the company's promotional literature, the employment figure for Continue Reading...
Amazon is widely respected throughout the e-commerce industry for choosing to build one of the most advanced distributed order management and procurement systems that could order just a single book, before they actually created their websites (Barsa Continue Reading...
online consumer reviews from the consumer's perspective. Online consumer reviews are often the first way that a consumer will learn about a new product or service. The pros of online consumer reviews include receiving potentially unbiased informatio Continue Reading...
The crux of this challenge however is the distribution and fulfillment system, an area Amazon.com for example had streamlined for low-quantity orders before ever launching their website and online store. This equates to what Elberse and Oberholzer-G Continue Reading...
Consumers' high level of interest in all these products and their build-to-order configurations also point to significant bargaining power of suppliers. Suppliers of MP3 players, cell phones and convergence products also have a significant bargaini Continue Reading...
Home Goods M-Commerce During the earlier parts of the internet and technological revolution that began in the 1990's with the emergence of the World Wide Web was what eventually came to be known as E-Commerce. Indeed, there was the shift whereby Continue Reading...
The study's findings indicate that high technology brands are exceptionally effective in defining the prestige aspects of their products and through the use of market branding, showing their value from a personal brand standpoint (Hamann, Williams, Continue Reading...
Improvement of Supply Chain Management Tools and Processes for Ultimate Strategic Achievement of Success in Military and Civil Business Today, both public and private sector organisations of all sizes and types are faced with the same need to optim Continue Reading...
