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Ideal Shopping Direct - Terrfic operational gearing

July 2005

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The internet has turned traditional retailing on its head. Take the case of Amazon.com which dominates the market for bookselling. When it was established, its goal was simple - to cut out the expensive American bookstore middleman. It now offers more titles than any store could stock, lower prices as well as customised come-ons when you visit the website. Even better, Amazon receives its money from the credit card company a couple of days after the order by which time it has dispatched the goods but has 45 days before it pays the publisher. It therefore gets to use the cash for those days and stock turns are several times better than traditional retailers.We?ve majored on the strengths of the Amazon model even though the company ...

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