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Consumers are frustrated by the current limitations of mobile commerce, according to a study by the Boston Consulting Group, but expect that m-commerce will become a part of their daily lives within a few years.

One in four mobile device owners surveyed stopped using m-commerce applications after the first few attempts, citing slow transmission speeds, difficult user interfaces and high costs. In addition, 60 percent of owners of m-commerce devices worldwide don't use m-commerce applications.

The study, released this month, surveyed 1,633 early and potential m-commerce users in the United States, Japan, Germany, France and Sweden.

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http://www.dmnews.com/articles/2000-11-27/11794.html

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Wall Street May Not Like Dot-Coms, but Main Street Does
A new survey shows that consumers are more satisfied shopping online than off. They're not big on portals, though.
By Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Consumers are more satisfied making retail purchases online than they are shopping at traditional department and discount stores, according to a survey by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, a quarterly consumer report by the University of Michigan Business School.

The report, which was released on Monday, found that consumer satisfaction with the online shopping experience earned a score of 78 points out of a possible 100, which is significantly higher than the 72 points most recently scored by department and discount stores.


The survey found that No. 1 online retailer Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) scored an 84, the highest of any service sector company included in the study, and discount warehouse store operator Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST) had the top score of 79 points among traditional retailers.

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Online Post-Thanksgiving Traffic Matches Offline Rush

Traffic to e-commerce sites surged the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year for bricks-and-mortar stores, according to a survey yesterday by online audience measurement service Nielsen//NetRatings.

Web surfing rose 27 percent at home Friday versus the rest of the week -- a trend that mirrors the offline world, according to the Nielsen//NetRatings Holiday E-Commerce Index, which measured five representative sites in eight product categories.

Categories measured included apparel, consumer electronics, books, music and video, Internet-only department stores, value-oriented sites, toys and games, specialty gifts and computer hardware.

The survey by the New York market researcher found that the apparel and consumer electronics categories were up 68 percent and 46 percent, respectively, in traffic Friday versus the rest of the week.

For instance, among apparel retailers, Landsend.com traffic jumped 93 percent, Gap.com 86 percent and Spiegel.com 85 percent.

Among consumer electronics sites, Circuitcity.com traffic was up 126 percent in unique audience at home Friday. Competitors Outpost.com saw traffic rise 48 percent and 800.com 40 percent.

Online department stores, however, were the leading contributors to this surge in traffic. Amazon.com attracted more than 1.3 million people online Friday, up 36 percent compared with the rest of the week, according to the survey.

Multichannel retailers' online stores reported a 49 percent increase in the number of shoppers Friday versus the rest of the week. Internet-only retailers recorded only a 26 percent jump.

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Another one about Thanksgiving sales online...yahoo up 100% over last year others report similar; (the net's dead tho', e-tailing is out. Tech is done for. For the love of god get out while you still have money left. The big guys are trying to save you: they just want your shares at a steep discount. Sell to them and everything will be allright). Soon you may even hear good news from the offline media about e-sales...don't hold your breath.

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/158631.html

E-Commerce Sales Top $6 Billion

By David McGuire, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
27 Nov 2000, 2:01 PM CST
Dot-com market woes notwithstanding, Internet retailers did record business in the third quarter of 2000, tallying more than $6 billion in sales, according to government statistics released today.

US e-commerce sales for the third quarter totaled nearly $6.4 billion, an increase of nearly $1 billion over the second quarter total of roughly $5.5 billion, according to quarterly Census Bureau findings released today.

E-commerce sales spiked despite an overall drop-off in total retail sales including e-commerce, the report found.

But despite growing overall, and as a percentage of total retail sales, e- commerce sales continued to account for less than 1 percent of all retail sales in the third quarter, according to the Census Bureau findings.

E-commerce's $6.4 billion contribution amounted to just 0.78 percent of the $812 billion in retail sales recorded by all sellers in the third quarter, the report found. In the second quarter e-commerce sales accounted for only 0.68 percent of all retail sales.

And while e-commerce sites may be carving out a bigger piece of the retail pie (the 0.78 percent mark was the highest recorded by the Census Bureau since it began tracking e-commerce sales) statisticians are still unsure whether Internet retailers are taking business away from traditional sellers.

Earlier this year Census Bureau chief Robert Shapiro said that his agency was in the process of developing a measure for "the extent to which e- commerce shifts customers and the extent to which it adds customers." Within a year, he said in May, the bureau should have a better idea of whether electronic retailers are taking business away from traditional retailers, he said.

The e-commerce data is not seasonally adjusted.

Findings of the quarterly report are available on the Census Bureau's Economics and Statistics Administration Web site at http://www.esa.doc.gov .

Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com

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You knew this but, 1 billion = 10 hundred million = one thousand million. 10 billion = 100 hundred million = ten thousand millions.

That's done on line in less than six months...8 years ago it was about ZERO. And that's just retail...

Pick a sector. Pick stocks in that sector.

I like tech. I like B2B and internets...

Most of this info taken from

http://www.ragingbull.altavista.com/mboard/memalias.cgi?member=NoGuano