RE: UKNM: Toys R US - site, outdated - w

[Leslie Bunder]

hasn't WalMart taken some legal action against Amazon.com recently?  I

think it was to do with something over the systems Amazon.com has which

owe much to WalMart.


Leslie

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> -----Original Message-----

> From:	Tony Coyle [SMTP:tony.coyle@apldigital.co.uk]

> Sent:	27 January 1999 19:01

> To:	uk-netmarketing

> Subject:	RE: UKNM: Toys R US - site, outdated - w

> 

> Nice reply and good advice. WalMart 10 years ago managed to change and

> attack it's US competitors via investment in just-in-time ordering

> systems. Doesn't take brain surgery to realise the marketplace is

> shifting again, if WalMart are smart they will change again. Bet they

> do.

> 

> Tony Coyle, APL Digital.

> 

> > These companies,, (Toys r' us, WalMart, KMart, Sears, etc...)  can't

> afford

> > to go on the web, and can't afford to have people shop online. Why?

> If they

> > do, they canibalize (forgive the spelling) their own stores. These

> stores

> > have millions upon millions upon millions of dollars invested in

> stores,

> > people, parking lots, bricks, mortar, etc... If they start selling

> on the

> > web full force, they eat into what they've spent so much money to

> build.

> 

> You're not wrong, and it's one of the major problems with both the

> mind set

> of companies who 'want to be on the Web' and the consultants that they

> bring in to advice them.

> 

> The basic, unpalatable truth is that their business is going to be

> eaten by

> online stores, and if that's going to happen you might as well eat

> your own

> sales, rather than have a competitor eat them for you. It's all a

> question

> of timing. 


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