Word: showings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your order is transmitted to the closest facility that has the products. Amazon's newest, in McDonough, Ga., opened in October and stocks more than a million items. Rows of red lights show which products are ordered. Workers move from bulb to bulb, retrieving an item from the shelf above an pressing a button that resets the light. Computers determine which workers go where...
Whitman started imposing discipline fast. She whipped the finances and infrastructure into shape and got the company ready to go public. Within months of her arrival in early 1998, she was leading an eBay team on a road show to win over investors. On Sept. 24, 1998, the initial public offering took place, with shares offered at $18; by the end of the day the price had bounded up more than 160%, to $47. Omidyar, Skoll, Whitman and the rest of the eBay staff were suddenly rich. Back at the office, conga lines snaked through the hallways...
...stressful time we've had at eBay," says Skoll of the August crash. "Poor Meg would catch an hour's sleep on a cot and then have to face the TV cameras." There have also been occasional embarrassments (and some probable hoaxes) that the press--and late-night talk-show hosts--have had fun with: the seller who put a kidney up for sale (the bidding was up to $5.7 million before eBay called it off); listings for a bazooka and other military weapons (also yanked). And, of course, the 17-year-old boy who put his virginity...
...friends in the flesh. But they're on her mind when she cruises clothing stores and comes upon a tantalizing markdown in designer duds. She buys by the armful, goes home to her computer and within a couple of days has set up her own fashion show--on eBay, in full view of anyone with a modem and a yen to bid on the clothes she puts up for auction. Bids race through cyberspace, winners are declared, and Wicker mails the goods to the lucky buyers--and cashes their money orders and cashier's checks, sometimes for a tidy profit...
...Sweatshops has gotten a whole lot more victories. Living wage doesn't have that much to show for it," said PSLM member William W. Erickson...