Web Is Only Good For Buying Books And Stock
from the forget-the-rest dept
Jim Cramer's latest column explains why he thinks the web is only useful for buying books and stock. You can forget about any other goods. He blames Amazon. Once Amazon was successful with books everyone simply had to try to sell everything else. The fact is, he claims, that books are an item that can be sold on the web. Most other products simply aren't good products to sell on the web.
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Excellent point, but I don't believe that all of those dot coms jumped ahead of themselves. There are just some things that most people will always want to experience before they buy. You can have a picture of bananas or lettuce on WebVan, but you can never be sure exactly which bananas or lettuce you will get and what kind of condition they will be in until they are at your door - no checking out the quality before you buy. I do think that some stuff, such as certain clothing, will start to become more popular with time as people either get lazier or trust the internet more. In my opinion, it will probably be the former....
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