Word: tailers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line plays do," says Mike May, an analyst at Jupiter Communications, an e-commerce research firm in New York City. "A single point of sale can be used to reach an entire country or the entire world." As Jay Herratti, president of Boo.com North America, a sportswear e-tailer, put it, "We could be global from...
With its own auction launch, Amazon continues its mutation from bookseller to e-tailer nonpareil. The auction area is carrying tens of thousands of items, including a signed copy of Hem-ingway's A Farewell to Arms--Amazon will, of course, be strong in rare books. "Our vision is to build a place to find and discover anything our customers might want to buy...[including] car parts and spark plugs," says Bezos, whose firm's ever inflating stock price jumped an additional 15% on the news. Says Larry Schwartz, president of rival Auction Universe: "It's kind of frightening--they...
...walk out for the next best offer, corporations have taken a harder line against talent raids, essentially equating them to espionage. That seems to be the case with Wal-Mart's trade-secret suit against Amazon.com The nation's largest retailer contends that the Web's leading e-tailer lured 15 of its top techies out to Seattle from Wal-Mart's hometown of Bentonville, Ark., for the express purpose of duplicating its prized information database--a vast system that tracks customer shopping patterns and product flow. "There's a lot of computer talent out in the Valley," notes...