QuickBooks has more than 90% retail market share for small business accounting software.

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Going forward, online shopping is expected to grow at 48% per year to reach 1.5 trillion yuan by 2013, still accounting for just 7% of total retail sales meaning despite those numbers there will still be room for greater market share for online retailers, Bain researchers said in their 19 page report released Tuesday.

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It begs the question, with the Web still accounting for such a small percentage of retail sales, and online growth now projected to slow from the pace of the last few years--will consumers ever break through and adopt the Internet as a shopping channel significant enough to break through single digits as a percentage of overall sales?

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Mr Jones told MPs that internet shopping had made a "dramatic impact" on the industry, with online sales accounting for 12.2% of all retail sales.

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Earlier this month figures from the Scottish Retail Consortium also highlighted a rise in spending although it said after accounting for inflation, sales were flat.

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But New York-based Verizion, the nation's largest local telephone company, must still separate its retail and wholesale operations into distinct units, each with its own accounting and customer service operations.

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The corporate labs, offices, factories, warehouses, distribution centers, retail outlets, customer service, repairing outlets, and finance and accounting departments exist because of me, to serve and accommodate my needs and desires.

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Edmunds.com estimates the retail SAAR at 12.6 million vehicles in November, with fleet transactions accounting for just under 16 percent of total sales.

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Caremark points to a 2003 General Accounting Office report claiming that mail-order prices were 27% below retail for brand-name drugs and 53% less for generics.

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