E-Commerce Firms Send Out Paper Catalogs
from the aha!--I-knew-it! dept
See, in the back of our minds, I think we always knew that most of these dot com e-commerce players really were old fashioned catalog companies in disguise. Now that's been confirmed as many e-commerce firms have started sending out paper catalogs. Apparently they feel that catalogs have an advantage to shopping online (which is amusing, because the original online stores claimed they had huge advantages to printed catalogs).
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