Shop 'Till You Drop In The Warmth of Your Home and Save Gasoline
8717
Business > Sales
Mar 1, 2007
A Raymond Randall
Shop 'Till You Drop In The Warmth of Your Home and Save Gasoline
Do you go to the shopping mall, or do you sit in your favorite chair with keyboard handy? In time, shopping malls may become unwanted landscape with aisles of vacant stores while online shopping increases annually.
When Internet shopping you can enter your credit card securely (bank card companies cooperate with special shopping ID's), fair or free shipping costs, and friendly customer service. This saves you time, saves you gasoline, and saves you money.
Shopping from your couch keeps you away from drivers racing from one lane to the shoulder, some painting their lips, others babbling or haggling. No need to play bumper cars when getting a parking spot either.
Last Saturday, my family passed our local mall's parking lot. A full lot on the food court side suggests crowded aisles. Crowds challenge my shopping patience, but seldom dissuade the women in our family. In 1997, according to eMarketer, Inc. men and boys dominated the Internet. Today, women have the edge.
The International Council of Shopping Centers predicts a 3.5% increase in holiday shopping at brick and motor stores. Large department stores, the anchor tenants of shopping malls, may see a 2% increase. How come?
* Large Department Stores Do Not Motivate Shoppers, according to The Mystery Shopping Providers Association (MSPA) Store clerks do not greet shoppers
* Store clerks do not offer extra service to shoppers
* Store clerks do not suggest other products to shoppers
* Store clerks lack the motivation that keeps shoppers buying
Walmart,Target, and luxury retail merchants experience 5% increase in sales this year as large department stores are "naughty and not nice".
There is no coal in the on line retailers stocking this year:
* According to Goldman Sachs: On line shopping increased by 16% over last year (week ending December 9th)
* $18.6 billion in sales since early November according to Harris Interactive. According to comScore Networks, online sales the Monday after Thanksgiving increased by $485 million (26%) more than 2004 (by the way, someday the U.S. and State Governments will tax this commerce).
On line shoppers are motivated to spend money. On line shopping security improves constantly. No need to check the mall when a delivery man can bring your package to your door. No need to endure over worked and under paid counter sales help, when a "click" of your keyboard completes the sale. Shoppers are changing lanes.
Ebay, Amazon, and Google motivate shoppers. Macy's, Filene's, and Sears may have lost their knack. Copywriters may become more important than counter sales people. As I write, Google's (GOOG) stock price is $427.82 (Do you know about Froogle?) Federated Stores (FD) is $63.75. Paradigm shifts are every where.
When Internet shopping you can enter your credit card securely (bank card companies cooperate with special shopping ID's), fair or free shipping costs, and friendly customer service. This saves you time, saves you gasoline, and saves you money.
Shopping from your couch keeps you away from drivers racing from one lane to the shoulder, some painting their lips, others babbling or haggling. No need to play bumper cars when getting a parking spot either.
Last Saturday, my family passed our local mall's parking lot. A full lot on the food court side suggests crowded aisles. Crowds challenge my shopping patience, but seldom dissuade the women in our family. In 1997, according to eMarketer, Inc. men and boys dominated the Internet. Today, women have the edge.
The International Council of Shopping Centers predicts a 3.5% increase in holiday shopping at brick and motor stores. Large department stores, the anchor tenants of shopping malls, may see a 2% increase. How come?
* Large Department Stores Do Not Motivate Shoppers, according to The Mystery Shopping Providers Association (MSPA) Store clerks do not greet shoppers
* Store clerks do not offer extra service to shoppers
* Store clerks do not suggest other products to shoppers
* Store clerks lack the motivation that keeps shoppers buying
Walmart,Target, and luxury retail merchants experience 5% increase in sales this year as large department stores are "naughty and not nice".
There is no coal in the on line retailers stocking this year:
* According to Goldman Sachs: On line shopping increased by 16% over last year (week ending December 9th)
* $18.6 billion in sales since early November according to Harris Interactive. According to comScore Networks, online sales the Monday after Thanksgiving increased by $485 million (26%) more than 2004 (by the way, someday the U.S. and State Governments will tax this commerce).
On line shoppers are motivated to spend money. On line shopping security improves constantly. No need to check the mall when a delivery man can bring your package to your door. No need to endure over worked and under paid counter sales help, when a "click" of your keyboard completes the sale. Shoppers are changing lanes.
Ebay, Amazon, and Google motivate shoppers. Macy's, Filene's, and Sears may have lost their knack. Copywriters may become more important than counter sales people. As I write, Google's (GOOG) stock price is $427.82 (Do you know about Froogle?) Federated Stores (FD) is $63.75. Paradigm shifts are every where.
Content Provider: http://www.traffichelp4u.com
Ray Randall is an investment advisor. Ethos Advisory is an investment and financial planning service. Echievements.com is a self-improvement and money-making article library. Call Ray (617-275-5565)
Write a Review
Add to My Favorite
Refer it to Friend
Report Article
Other links owned by this user
Do u go to the shopping mall, or do u sit in ur favorite chair with keyboard handy? In time, shopping malls may become unwanted landscape with aisles of vacant stores while online shopping increases annually. When Internet shopping
Category:
Click Here" n a secure server sets ff a chain f events apprving yur credit card (yu hpe), dispatching an email t yur inbx, and delivering yur reprt r ebk. Yu never talked t the prvider (and fr all yu knw, they may be sleeping r
Category:
On Wednesday at 1015AM October 13, my body was intact wi no parts missing. At two AM, Thursday October 14, I awakened in someone else's bed. Lahey Hospital's. At 3AM, I sat in a large leaer reclining chair (I tried wheeling it to my car, but
Category:
Other links at Business > Sales
In Part 1, we went over the steps to uncover sales performance issues and decide which are applicable at a high priority for pin-point sales skill training. We first documented the main sales performance issues. There are (4) distinct sales performance
Category:
It is that time of year again when we start looking ahead for ways to increase the sales and profitability for the coming year for our businesses. Planning ahead for success brings the best results so for the best increases in sales in 2008 for your busin
Category:
3. Viagra
You have made a cool sitegeneric viagrahttp://onlybest.coz.in/#viagra[url=http://onlybest.coz.in/#viagra]generic
Category:
This article discusses some actions the owners should take in anticipation of selling their software or IT Services business. Many of these actions would be implemented by the acquirer post acquisition. If, you implement them prior to the sale, the
Category:
There is mounting evidence that if you are not on the Internet bandwagon and if you can't be found by people searching for mortgages on the Internet, you are completely "missing the boat" in the mortgage business. This article explains all...
Category:
Site Sponsor
Directory Statistics
Articles: 68252
Categories: 501
Yahoo Entertainment
