Advantages
- By not selling in stores, products can be warehoused in and shipped from a centralized location instead of managing inventory over a large number of stores, reducing the amount of unsold product (and thus reducing overhead).
- Online shoppers can conveniently shop for various items (such as electronics, jewelry, clothes, etc.) with their Internet connection.
- If an item is not sold in a store, the shopper can have the item they purchased delivered to their home, saving gas in their cars.
- The item that the shopper purchased can also be shipped to the retail store. For example, if a shopper purchased a laptop at bestbuy.com, he can have it shipped to his local Best Buy store, where he can pick it up.
- Online inventories are much more diverse than retail store inventories; therefore, it is more likely that a shopper will find what he or she is looking for online.
- Special discounts are available for online only purchases. These discounts are only valid if the item is purchased online.
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Famous quotes containing the word advantages:
“The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
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—Richard Steele (1672–1729)