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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: online buying |
| Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:34:22 -0400 |
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Thanks everyone for your incite. Doesn't hurt any less at the end of every
month, but at least I know that this isn't a recessionary problem...but a
case of inflationary spending cutbacks by a lot of people.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Infecting Our Customers' Computers Since 1985!!"
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
http://www.bullseyerecords.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
http://www.myspace.com/jaimievernonsmovingtargetz
>From: "Jim Kosmicki" <jkosmicki@cccneb.edu>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>, <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: online buying
>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:36:16 -0500
>
>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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