Word: stores
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...example, members of the shooting club are not allowed to keep guns in their rooms so they must store their shot-guns at the Harvard University Police Department...
...last October, Brian Hanson knew he had to hurry up and expand the operations of the Portland, Maine, seafood store that had been in his family for three generations. Space wasn't exactly the problem; he and one of his partners, Walter Compare Jr., had just moved Hanson Bros. Fresh Seafood to larger quarters in the newly built Portland Public Market. But there were rumors floating around town of a new digital form of competition. "One guy sold $1 million worth of live Maine lobsters online around Christmas," says Hanson. "That's when we do most of our business...
...best way to fight e-commerce, Hanson decided, was to join it. So, last fall he began shopping around for a way to establish a presence on the Internet. He contacted local Internet service providers (ISPs) and asked other small-business owners about their experiences. He settled on Global Store globalstore.net) a company that offered to get him uploaded and running for $5,000, plus $150 a month for maintenance...
...month, he made $5,000, more than six times what he made in his first week online and a solid showing during a time of year when business is traditionally slow. Customers from as far away as Alaska are using the Web to purchase the same 78 products the store sells in Portland, including jumbo gulf shrimp, live Maine lobsters and even Alaskan king-crab legs. Just as importantly, from Hanson's point of view, taking orders over the Internet has freed up some of his 30 employees to help customers at the store's counter. "I couldn't afford...
...address in a kind of virtual yellow pages. A website can be the equivalent of a single page or a thick magazine. A brochure-ware website, for example, holds roughly 10 megabytes of memory or enough space for, say, a page or two of photographs of the store along with a little description...