Information Systems: A Management Perspective

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Retooling retail: Consumer sales on the Internet may force the industry to reinvent itself

http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/features/990322retail.htm

This article examines the threat of internet commerce to traditional retail stores.

Questions:

  1. How have traditional retailers responded to the threat of losing market share and revenues to Internet retailers?

  2. Why do some analysts believe the threat of disintermediation is overstated?

  3. What are some of the problems that have occurred in Internet retailing?

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