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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lenk, who started eToys in 1996, pioneered a tricky business. No one else was selling toys online at the volume Lenk envisioned. "There's nothing that's easy," Lenk says. "The details are really hard." Everything--the software, the shipping procedures, the wrapping system--had to be invented on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clicks And Bricks | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

All of this may persuade you that old-fashioned commerce is as dead as disco. Unless, of course, you've been to a mall lately, where the parking lot is packed and you can spend a vacation day in line to pay for a shirt. Malls still offer plenty of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clicks And Bricks | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

The counterattack is well under way and gathering momentum. Traditional merchants have taken heart from, of all places, Charles Schwab, which has broken down the walls between its off-line brokerage business (with 335 retail locations) and Schwab.com its online business. Schwab had to be spry enough to devise cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clicks And Bricks | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Now that Schwab has proved that the clicks-and-mortar strategy works, this Christmas season we are seeing that Schwab may be the precursor rather than the exception. Robert Kenzer, CEO of Kenzer Corp., a retail executive-search firm, says retailers will have to do online, off-line and catalog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clicks And Bricks | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Not at all, but if Mr. You've Got Mail regresses to old tech, can e-commerce really be that easy? With Case onboard, and TIME's Person of the Year issue to dangle before guests, I pursued a Noah's Ark theory of who else to invite: two members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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