Comments on Brian Smith's articles RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.com/author/brian-smith/articles http://seekingalpha.com/article/179559-online-holiday-shopping-stronger-than-usual-for-year-end?source=feed#comment-821219 821219 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:26:03 -0500 ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/106107-doom-and-gloom-for-retail-sales-both-online-and-off?source=feed#comment-306960 306960 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:08:32 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/106107-doom-and-gloom-for-retail-sales-both-online-and-off?source=feed#comment-306512 306512 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:27:56 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/106107-doom-and-gloom-for-retail-sales-both-online-and-off?source=feed#comment-306513 306513 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:27:56 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/106107-doom-and-gloom-for-retail-sales-both-online-and-off?source=feed#comment-306396 306396 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:06:15 -0500
The recession is putting a lot of pressure on city and state governments to raise sales tax. This is what is happening in California. The Internet provides a way to avoid those increases, and with the price of oil down, shipping costs are going down... Based on this I would reason that while retail sales are going to decrease, Internet sales should drop less. In a way, the recession should accelerate the transfer of proportion of sales from brick and mortar retail to Internet retail. ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/72195-googles-search-within-a-search?source=feed#comment-150343 150343 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:18:51 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/18353-ebay-to-test-universal-shopping-cart-that-competes-with-google?source=feed#comment-72072 72072 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:27:59 -0400 www.ecomcity.com/safeh...

Google Checkout has it right by protecting the shopper from abusive gorilla marketing tactics of merchant middlemen, selling off their privacy info. The combo of consumer protections, easy common checkout process, low cost merchant gateway per sale fee, fraud protections, no phishing exploits, makes Google Checkout a winner if adopted by shoppers. You'd think Google's dominance in online advertising would budget promoting GC on shopping portals on a CPM or slotting fee basis.]]>