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December 2000 eRetail News Snippets |
Bentley
Communications Corp. plans substantial expansion to BentleyBlvd.com.
Extensive development from this shopping hub begins with at least six
distinctive cyber sites:
RedEnvelope claims a sales increase of
approximately 400% over last holiday, shipping 150,000 packages in
December. Online holiday sales totaled $8.7bn according
to research from Goldman Sachs and PC Data, doubling the $4.2 bn spent
last year. Analysts suggest the season started much earlier this year,
with shoppers wanting to avoid the last minute headaches of 1999. Bluelight.com will begin limiting its free
Internet access to 25 hours use per month. Bluelight will also be
initiating changes to increase its advertising profile and present
shopping offers to the 5 million users of its Internet service. PETsMART successfully utilized wireless direct
marketing through the goZing permission-based service. The offer reached
30,000 of the 65,000 goZing members and received a response over 4%. Stereoscape.com announced the acquisition of
Marx Toys, Inc. Amazon.com opens up its own outlet store
online. Envive is automatically measuring how long it
takes to conduct complete online transactions beginning with a site’s
home page, browsing, think time, searching, and adding to shopping cart
for check out. Sensors monitor the average page response time and entire
transaction response time every hour, around the clock. For designer baby outfits, Babyeshop.com
features everything from custom-made boutique clothing to an upscale
outlet center offering unusual bargains and even an Upscale Resale page
where shoppers can post or purchase gently-used designer apparel. Underneath.com courted Nordstrom’s
President, Dan Nordstrom, in an attempt to build interest in buying the
five man company. In the end, Nordstrom elected to build rather than buy,
subsequently registering the URL NordstromUnderwear.com. eLUXURY, a provider of luxury items online has
chosen Viewpoint's Web visualization technology to display products in
fully navigable, photo-realistic 3D on its Web site for major brands,
including Christian Dior, Bvlgari, Louis Vuitton, and Salvatore Ferragamo. Where2Net, a provider of “unified shopping solutions” to multi-channel retailers, and ePeople, a technology provider offering interactive product experiences for personal products, are partnering to offer retailers and brand marketers of cosmetics and other personal products the capability to provide their customers with a consistent, complete and rich product experience across multiple sales channels. ePeople's solution provides customers the ability to
“virtually” try-on the products, perform product searches, get
personalized product recommendations, visually compare the products and
obtain more information about the product. Customers can utilize this
technology online via the web and offline via in-store Web devices. meanwhile Beautymerchant
Inc, announced an agreement with EPEOPLE.NET to provide state of the
art ``Virtual Makeovers'' for its retail visitors to BEAUTYMERCHANT.COM. True Grits school uniforms are now available
online through its new website. RetailExchange.com, an online
business-to-business exchange for excess consumer products, announced an
alliance with freightquote.com that will seamlessly integrate
freightquote.com's logistics tools and shipping services into
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