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| From | "Jim Kosmicki" <jkosmicki@cccneb.edu> |
| Subject | Re: online buying |
| Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:36:16 -0500 |
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Jamie Vernon asked if people had stopped online buying all of a sudden:
Obviously all I can answer for is myself, but I've noticed this myself
recently and came to the conclusion that there were two factors.
1. I do have less discretionary income right now. Inflation and minimal
salary increases are beginning to hurt. The higher cost of gasoline is
an easy scapegoat, but my wife and I have noticed that almost everything
that we knew the prices for has gone up noticeable in recent months, and
my contacts in retail indicate that it's shipping costs for the most
part that are causing the increase (plus trying to meet quarterly stock
goals with less purchases being made!)
2. I don't need that much more stuff. When online shopping came about
and all of a sudden you had the cornucopia there, it was so much easier
to buy what you'd always wanted and couldn't find. Now, I've fulfilled
most of my want lists and am pretty much only buying the new stuff. And
for new stuff, unless it's exclusive to the online retailer, local
merchants have that wonderful advantage of immediate possession.
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