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Plenty of bigger companies can probably sympathize. E-commerce is hard, and it's tough to know for sure if it's for you. But with total retail e-commerce sales nearly tripling, from $2.7 billion to $7.9 billion for the 12-month period ending in June, everybody from your broker to the corner grocer to the guy who sold you that recliner you're sitting on is paying attention to the online biz, no matter what the aggravation. And whether they're working for an aggressive Net start-up, a brick-and-mortar retailer who fears getting "Amazon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales From The E-Commerce Front | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...course, retail stores are allowed to appeal to a certain market base. If Abercrombie wanted to appeal to a largely white audience, that's fine. There are plenty of fashion labels that target a specific ethnicity--Fubu for African-Americans and Pinoy-Wear for Filipino-Americans to name a few. But these designers make it clear that they are appealing to a certain group within the nation. Abercrombie tricks you into thinking that their ads represent all of America. Their troupe of Aryan models even travel to England to prove it. For as we all know, "the only...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Abercrombie and the "American" Image | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...show rather than punching in times and channels and hoping you have got it right. This feature is free with Replay, while TiVo charges $9.95 a month, $99 a year or $199 lifetime. The ReplayTV box, currently sold only online, starts at $699; TiVo, recently arrived in retail stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come PVRs | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...other candidates don't do retail politics in California, the most populous state in the Union, which has historically conferred its electoral riches on candidates who blitz the state with advertising and large public appearances...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Polls Don't Tell Whole Bradley Story | 9/22/1999 | See Source »

...ideas came from staffers in HUDS' retail shops--as in Loker Commons--and Crimson Cash operations, as well as dining hall managers from various other Houses, purchasing managers for the College's food service system and HUDS Executive Chef Michael Miller...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: River Dining Halls Go Upper Class | 9/22/1999 | See Source »

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