Eight months after the dot-com crash, Merrill Lynch's master of the obvious issues a report on the death of e-tail.
Only a dizzy optimist stuck in 1998 talks about pure e-tail now.
He's CEO of ShopRunner, a subsidiary of e-tail-services company GSI Commerce that recently launched a Prime-like service for a collection of offline retailers.
Even Jeffrey Bezos, the founder of Amazon, now offers his own e-tail services to such old-line merchants as Target and Borders, as Blum's Aqueduct does.
"If we can't make it, there's no e-tail business, " Blum says.
With penetration at only 8%, e-commerce penetration into retail will come in breadth (more categories) and depth (increase in spend in existing e-tail categories) driving a tidal wave of new opportunities for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
Hard numbers are hard to come by because the company doesn't break out its e-commerce business, but the site is in the top ten in terms of visitors to e-tail sites, and its catalog is always expanding.
D-Link's Gaming Router (DGL-5500) will be displayed at the 2013 International CES, Jan. 8-11, 2013 in Las Vegas and will be available in late-Spring throughout D-Link's vast network of retail and e-tail outlets in the United States.
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One weakness of this otherwise excellent book is that it tries to apply the theory of the long tail to fields far beyond entertainment and e-commerce.
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