December 23, 2006
For years now, I’ve done this exclusively online, and the latest data suggests there are few others like me in Canada. This is a small country, after all, and what with the extraordinarily high costs of e-commerce, few Canadian retailers have the means to get into it, and as a result, relatively few Canadian consumers are diving in.Extraordinarily high costs?… There must be a disconnect here – I realize that there are costs, but what better way for a landlocked retailer to extend reach and brand from coast to coast and compete with the bricks and mortar retailers who’ve invested many millions to do the same thing.No, the real issue, I suspect, is that Canadians don’t shop in greater numbers online because the stores they’d like to buy from – US retailers – don’t ship to Canada, or if they do, sell goods (electronics is the classic example) that include US-only warranties, to protect their more timid Canadian distributors. If there were more serious competition for our dollars, Canadian retailers would be forced from their drowsy slumbers to fight more aggressively for our business, and robust e-commerce would follow.
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December 23, 2006
Thanks be to Dennis for the kind mention as a runner-up for Best Overall Law-Related Blog in his annual Blawggies, and for a mention as one of a growing number of Canadian legal blogs. Just how great is it to be runner-up next to one of my favourite law and policy blogs, the very excellent and very smart Technology Liberation Front.
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