Word: offing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given that kind of willing audience, e-tailing start-ups emerged in virtually every "space." There are at least nine sites for pets, 17 for toys, six selling luxury goods and about two dozen peddling computers. Jewelry. Beef. Sex toys. Anything you can buy in the mall--and quite a...
Economists get dizzy thinking about this. It is all so scalable. Add a few servers, a dozen more Web pages, a couple more customer-service reps, run your traffic up another digit, expand into new product lines and sell a hundred thousand more books or CDs or power tools. This...
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Certainly, off-line merchants did their best to get rid of us. We've been going to the same malls with the same stores for a generation now, sipping Orange Juliuses as we wade past the Limited on the way to the food court. If you were cool, if you...
Investors clearly think the game is over, rewarding pure-play e-tailers with market capitalizations that dwarf their off-line competitors--Amazon's $32 billion, vs. Sears' and K Mart's combined $17 billion; eToys' $4.5 billion, vs. Toys "R" Us' $3.6 billion; and, even more amazing, airline-ticket broker...