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Does China’s E-commerce rise signal the future of bricks and mortar globally?

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I don’t own an iPad. I’ve always wanted one but probably more for the kids than anything else.

I guess I’ve just felt that I had better things to do with the cash. So price has been a barrier (especially since I have three kids!) Not anymore – and mostly because of e-commerce. Why? Because here in my second home of Shanghai they’re cheap – Gome one of China’s two leading electronics behemoths has just dropped the price on an iPad 2 to CNY 1999 (that’s just over 300 of your American Dollars) so ok now I’m getting three! [Read more…]

3 reasons for getting serious about online retail now!

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Most manufacturers I speak to don’t have a strategy for developing online retail channels. Very few have a dedicated team working on online at all and even fewer take online retail seriously as a sales channel. For most online retail is just too small, perceived to be irrelevant or it’s considered as ‘being done’ as part of the management of key customers who already sell through web-sites. But here are three reasons why you need to get very serious about online retail very quickly. [Read more…]