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:
“In 1845 he built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone, a life of labor and study. This action was quite native and fit for him. No one who knew him would tax him with affectation. He was more unlike his neighbors in his thought than in his action. As soon as he had exhausted himself that advantages of his solitude, he abandoned it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the advantages enjoyed by men of the same class will lessen essentially the number of thoughtless, idle, vain and frivolous women and thus secure the [sic] society the services of those who now hang as dead weight?”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that “we, the people,” should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?”
—Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)