eHoliday shopping
Jim Whitehead (ejw@ics.uci.edu)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 17:13:48 -0800
Early figures are starting to come in on eCommerce over the holidays, and it
appears that large eCommerce sites did well over the holidays. Many firms
reported having insufficient resources to handle customer support, and it
appears that site usability problems are still fairly common.
IDC Report: http://www.idc.com/Data/eBusiness/Content/eHoliday_Indicator.htm
This report, by NextCard, ranks electronic retailers:
http://www.nextcard.com/ncindexes_top10_dec_1.html
The top 3: Amazon, Buy.com, BarnesandNoble.com
It appears there will plenty of good news to keep the bubble growing...
- Jim