While there may be decoupling in the physical, commerce and consumer markets, there is no decoupling in the financial markets.
Indeed, shoppers are demanding new buying experiences, ones integrated between e-commerce, physical stores, on their smartphones and their social networks.
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In the US, traditional incumbents are beginning to move from physical retailing to e-commerce, but most retain a heavy cost footprint in brick-and-mortar form factor.
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Unlike its first foray into the US market, Digital Li Ning is solely an e-commerce store without any physical retail outlets.
Chuah, a researcher at the lab of the Accenture consulting firm, is developing new technologies in instant messaging and online commerce aimed at conjoining the physical and virtual worlds as never before.
By 2011, as consumer Web IPO-mania grew in advance of the Facebook IPO, Mr. Mason began saying his goal was to make Groupon the Amazon.com Inc. of local commerce, bringing online the physical retail economy that other Web companies have tried to tap without success.
So the rules that will be devised for electronic commerce may affect the choice between physical and digital methods of trade.
Those same skills are in high demand by both commerce and government in protecting our cyber and physical security infrastructure.
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"We have in the pipeline a proposal on internet commerce, but it is not commerce in the sense of distance selling of physical goods, " Commission tax official Stephen Bill said.
This could be a sign of Facebook eventually more tightly integrating the ability to purchase all sorts of physical products on Facebook, which could move Facebook even further as an e-commerce platform.
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Clearly, the convenience of e-commerce continues to pull more time-crunched consumers away from the malls and other physical destinations.
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State tax officials have been gunning for Amazon for years due to its huge e-commerce revenues and strategic efforts to limit the number of states where it had a physical presence.
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However, no pure-play clothing e-commerce site has every taken off in the US because people like to go to a physical store to try things on.
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Now they are increasing their focus on technology consumers can use to make purchases by simply entering a password or other easy-to-remember information on an e-commerce website, or by tapping a smartphone against a merchant payment terminal instead of swiping a physical card.
E-commerce has radically changed our habits and made us redefine the role, and the function, of physical sales outlets.
It seems that although the companies have well-established e-commerce operations and sophisticated websites, people tend to shop for drugstore items and building materials by visiting physical locations.
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