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We first spotted Elaine Turner’s line of handbags and personal accessories in the pages of our beloved Lucky Magazine, and it was love at first sight! The label’s designs manage to be fun, yet chic through an ingenious hybrid of timeless shapes and exotic fabrics. Just imagine the body of your fave Coach satchel, but in unexpected materials like metallic embossed croc and candy-colored distressed leathers, and with charming hardware accents such as tortoise shell link handles. Elaineturner.com features all the newest styles in addition to offering favorites from seasons past at reduced prices. Our picks are the Alex Tote in Mustard Distressed Leather ($575), Hillary Shoulder Bag in Red Vintage Leather ($425), Alice Oversized Clutch in Zebra Haircalf ($450), and Clutch Wallet in Silver Croc ($198). All designs are available in an array of colors and fabrics, and the newly added line of small leather goods (think pocketbooks, wallets, and keyfobs in the same wonderful textiles) means what we toss inside our lovely Josie Tote can be just as delicious as the tote itself. Elaine Turner has managed to stay largely under the radar, however with their new collection being ever more titillating than the last, we can’t imagine they’ll remain undiscovered for long.

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Online Shopping Brokers: Melie Bianco

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People are talking about the best kept secret and the best priced designer handbags! It's Melie Bianco from Los Angeles. Her handbags are a big hit. Open any fashion magazine and see them in living color. Photos don't do these bags justice. Prices range from $50 - $70 each. Styles are adorable. Synthetic leather is easy to maintain, eco friendly!

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Online Shopping Brokers: ProActiv

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This unique oil-free formula contains smooth, tiny grains to gently exfoliate dead skin cells and other impurities, plus prescription-grade benzoyl peroxide to penetrate pores, attack bacteria and heal blemishes fast.

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In addition to ProActive, Guthy-Renker carries the following products:

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Established in 1988, Guthy-Renker is today one of the world's largest direct response television companies with sales of more than $1.5 Billion per year and an average annual growth rate of 25% over the last 10 years. Originally launched as a television direct marketer by Co-CEOs Bill Guthy and Greg Renker, the independently-owned, vertically-integrated company has since broadened its focus into every area of electronic retailing, making quality products available to U.S. and international consumers through broadcast television, cable and satellite, as well as internet, telemarketing, direct mail and retail channels.

10 commandments of management at Guthy-Renker

1. Thou shalt take risks.
Risk is a prerequisite for success. So feel the fear and do it anyway, and know that every entrepreneur before you has felt the pang of panic at one time or another. The trick is to fight the fear with four simple rules. Research your ideas extensively. Keep your goals clear. Invest and re-invest, and never be afraid to try new things. Soon your fear will be replaced by financial fortitude.

2. Thou shalt make nice with your competitors.
The old law of "you wash my back, I'll wash yours" is just as applicable in our modern age. Asking competitors for help will reap unparalleled rewards, from getting invaluable advice (especially on new ventures) to combining your forces for mutual benefit. When it comes time to return a favor, brokering a deal for a competitor will allow you to cut in on their profits. It's a win-win situation.

3. Thou shalt pick the right people.
The people you surround yourself with will often make the difference between profit and perish. Choose partners who offer varying perspectives to cover all your bases. Surround yourself with people who are talented, forward thinking, conscientious and loyal, and you'll create an unbeatable team. Finally, take your time to find the right people - it will be time well spent.

4. Thou shalt have a Rolodex® that is fruitful and multiplies.
Go out of the way to forge relationships with agents, vendors, competitors and colleagues because you never know where your next opportunity will come from. Networking works so keep your Rolodex® updated and don't let it gather dust. Seemingly unnecessary meetings and contacts today can turn into valuable contracts tomorrow.

5. Thou shalt welcome change.
Even the subtlest tweak to your pitch, packaging or ad campaign can have a dramatic impact on results. A new headline here and a bumped-up offer there can turn a ho-hum seller into a hit. Be objective and ruthless in your analysis and discard whatever doesn't work. Finally, when re-introducing a tried and true product, change its look but leave the goods alone.

6. Thou shalt master the multimedia marketplace.
Don't stop at television. TV creates interest in a product but a broader multimedia approach ensures maximum profits. Bolster infomercials with traditional commercials, home shopping appeals, print ads in key publications, catalogs, direct mail, Internet sales, and other efforts. Consider new products in light of their full multimedia potential and always be on the look out for new media to tap into.

7. Thou shalt join and lead thy trade association.
A leader leads, so be on the frontlines especially in the heat of battle. In 1990, Congress and the Federal Trade Commission were about to impose a legislative straightjacket on the infomercial industry in response to incidents of fraud and abuse. Asked to testify before a Congressional subcommittee, Guthy-Renker took the initiative to form a trade group that would voluntarily police the industry. Today that group, known as the Electronic Retailing Association, serves as the ethical compass for the direct response television industry and Greg Renker remains its Chairman Emeritus. Because Guthy-Renker was unafraid to lead, we garnered greater respect and prestige among our colleagues, government and the world.

8. Thou shalt build on thy company's brand name at all times.
Get your name out there, but cultivate the right image from the get-go because once the public has a perception about you it is nearly impossible to change it. Inspire consumer recognition and trust by associating the name of your company with each product and program, in effect selling your company as aggressively as your products. Be willing to be visible, even if it means taking a hit for your industry. The result will be that competitors and customers will think you are bigger, better and more powerful than you might actually be.

9. Thou shalt not limit thy upside.
Don't bet the farm on fads. Look for products that sell indefinitely to the largest and most reliable audience possible. Do your homework and go the extra mile to find products with the greatest multimedia potential. Be on the lookout for new capital sources but remember that not every opportunity is your opportunity, so don't be afraid to pass.

10. Thou shalt be prepared to toss out these commandments and start over!
Adapt, adapt, adapt. The direct marketing industry changes on a daily basis. The only eternal rule is to keep your ear to the ground and your antennae up at all times. Stay ahead of and capitalize on changing trends. As your company evolves, so must your corporate strategy. Don't fall in love with a business plan because it will only break your heart.

Online Shopping Brokers: BLINDS

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Blinds.com is America's favorite blinds store. Get huge savings on high quality custom window coverings including window blinds, shades, draperies, and plantation shutters. At Blinds.com, you'll simply find great prices, a great selection, and most the outstanding service, all with our 30-Day Money Back Guarantee! You'll save money on major name brands such as Hunter Douglas, Graber, Levolor, and Bali, and you'll save even more on our private label products made especially for Blinds.com by these same manufacturers. Either way, you'll save a LOT of money and find a great selection at Blinds.com. Your satisfaction is assured because each member of our knowledgeable, fully trained staff has been selling window coverings for an average of 12 years. We never sell blinds that have been altered or modified. We do NOT sell used, refurbished, or replica blinds; you can buy with confidence knowing that we guarantee your blinds will function perfectly and be in mint condition.

Online Shopping Brokers: Frederick's Of Hollywood

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Frederick’s of Hollywood is an innovative, world-renowned brand that captures the excitement and glamour of Hollywood by offering sexy styles that make women feel romantic, desirable and confident. Pride in our company, its heritage, its integrity and its products will remain the foundation of Frederick’s of Hollywood.

In 1946, Frederick came to HollywoodOr shall we say, a man named Frederick Mellinger founded Frederick’s of Hollywood and a legend was born. Mellinger believed that incredible lingerie could make a woman feel beautiful—from the inside out.More than fifty years later, the company is still the leading trendsetter in intimate apparel and has earned a renowned reputation for flattering women of all sizes with its sexy signature styles. Frederick’s found success in creating lingerie that is sexy, fresh and sophisticated. A new star on Hollywood BoulevardWhen Frederick Mellinger set out to create lingerie that made women beautiful, suddenly unmentionables were worth mentioning. Introducing little black underthings to the United States may have raised a few eyebrows with the American public, but it was a smash with many a glamorous Hollywood actress—the ones women worshipped as their style icons.After the opening of the first Frederick’s of Hollywood store in 1947, the same Tinseltown stars who graced America’s big screens and magazines came to rely on Frederick’s for the sexy glamour that embodied the Hollywood lifestyle.

The ensuing decades saw changes in how America defined “sexy,” and Frederick’s found a way to keep up with the times—while often leading the way. After years of helping women “catch their man,” Frederick’s turned a corner, emphasizing the value of women looking and feeling sexy for themselves. This kind of change in attitude has maintained and increased Frederick’s customer base and kept sales climbing. Women of all backgrounds, sizes, ages and tastes choose Frederick’s for their lingerie needs, from everyday underwear to those special occasion styles that nobody does like Frederick’s.Rising young starsMore than a few of today’s lingerie staples were born at Frederick’s. “The Rising Star”—the world’s push-up bra, was launched in the early 1950’s to great success, and today is emulated by every intimate apparel manufacturer in the world. Still the leader, Frederick’s currently offers more than 15 styles of push-up bras to suit every woman.And push-ups weren’t the only innovation Frederick’s pushed out. Front-hook bras, bras with shoulder pads, padded girdles, body shapers and colorful fashion bustiers—Frederick’s started it all. In 1981, the company introduced the thong panty to the American woman. Today, Frederick’s offers more than 25 styles and sells nearly 40,000 weekly of its wildly popular “Rio” style—the fastest and largest-selling thong around the world.But even with those smashing successes, Frederick’s hasn’t slowed down. Learn about some of our most recent innovations.

What’s hot in HollywoodLiquid Lift Collection. First sold in 1998, this water bra’s unique push-up “padding” is actually a mixture of rosewater and oil. When worn, the water and oil combination warms to the body and creates a natural look and feel not possible with customary padding. The bra adds a full cup size and is completely puncture-proof. Since its introduction, the Liquid Lift Collection has become Frederick’s best-selling bra line.Hollywood Exxtreme Cleavage Bra—After many years of creating innovative bras, Frederick’s has done it again with the introduction of this cleavage-enhancing bra. A one-of-a-kind design allows wearers to customize the amount of cleavage and push-up achieved.Signature Fragrance—No off-the-shelf fragrance, this scent was created by the Frederick’s team to bring the sexy brand to life. The development of the fragrance was led by Frederick’s CEO, Linda LoRe, former CEO of Giorgio Beverly Hills. The resulting fragrance captures the spirit of the brand—bold, sexy, flirty and fun—all in a bottle.A new eraAlthough Frederick’s filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June 2001, during that period it turned once again to its innovation and creative spirit, poising itself for significant growth and a turnaround of the brand. In true Frederick’s style, the company has experienced positive sales and brand development since emerging from bankruptcy protection in December 2002.Frederick’s innovation, plus its 175 retail stores, highly successful catalog and Internet sales channels, have led the company to become one of the 25 most recognized brand names in the world.

Online Shopping Brokers: Woman Within

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About Woman Within®

We are Woman Within® and our commitment to comfort, style and value is the hallmark of our brand. With extensive experience designing fashions in sizes 12W to 44W, we remain the leader in women’s plus-size apparel.

We previously distributed the Lane Bryant Catalog, which satisfied every apparel need of the plus-size woman, including lingerie, sportswear, suiting and special occasion wear. Woman Within® catalog will continue to do so, because we know our customers and will continue to offer great merchandise that meets their individual needs.

With our recent name change, we wanted more than just another name—we wanted a definition. After reviewing years of correspondence with our customers, we confirmed that a Woman Within® customer buys from us because she cares about how she feels as much as about how she looks. She wants to feel comfortable in her clothes, confident in herself and smart about the value she receives. Equally important, a Woman Within® customer wants to be fashionable without being a victim of short-lived fashion trends. That is why we now offer the broadest selection of sportswear, career clothing, special occasion apparel, outerwear, intimate apparel, shoes (to size 14WW and plus-calf boots), and now fragrance and accessories. Our online shop offers speed, privacy, and over 1,000 styles, so our customers can be both comfortable and fashionable.

Woman Within® is not only our new name, it is our promise that we will always acknowledge each customer’s “inner voice,” the one that asks for the comfort, quality and value she has come to expect from our company. Woman Within® reflects our customers’ needs and respects their desires, building on our early commitment to an individual customer’s shape, size and age.

Woman Within® will make you feel confident, smart and at home.

Woman Within®
P.O. Box 4408
Taunton, MA 02780-0433
(800) 677-0216

Woman Within® is a highly ethical company and requires the highest standard of conduct from its employees and business partners. As members of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the largest association for consumers and businesses interested in direct marketing, we adhere to the Guidelines for Ethical Business Practice, Shopping and Consumer Rights and the DMA's Privacy Promise.

Online Shopping Brokers: WalMart

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Wal-Mart Teams with 1-800 CONTACTS to Expand Vision Care Offerings
Companies estimate first of its kind alliance could save customers approximately $400 million on contact lenses over the next three years

BENTONVILLE, Ark. and DRAPER, Utah – In the latest move to help drive down healthcare costs, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) today announced a long-term agreement with 1-800 CONTACTS that will bring contact lenses to more Americans at lower prices. The alliance combines Wal-Mart savings and the convenience and high quality care of independent eye doctors located in nearly 3,000 Wal-Mart Stores and Sam’s Clubs with 1-800 CONTACTS’ convenience and customer support to help customers save money and live better, healthier lives.

Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club and 1-800 CONTACTS will create efficiencies across their call centers, websites, purchasing, and distribution efforts – resulting in customer savings the companies estimate could reach $400 million over the next three years. By offering greater accessibility and savings on contact lenses, the alliance also aims to make it easier to replace lenses according to a schedule doctors recommend, a practice that may result in better eye health.

According to a 2004 Federal Trade Commission report, a McKinsey & Company survey showed that contact lens wearers use lenses longer than their doctor prescribed. Some consumers in that same survey specifically cited cost and “purchasing them is inconvenient” as reasons for over-wearing their lenses.*

“Our $4 prescription program is proof that Wal-Mart is committed to meeting America’s healthcare challenges. Our commitment to affordable eye care is no different,” said Dr. John Agwunobi, senior vice president and president for Wal-Mart’s professional services division. “Lowering costs and increasing convenience will make it easier for patients to follow their doctors’ advice and replace their lenses as recommended.”

Jonathan C. Coon, chief executive officer of 1-800 CONTACTS stated, “The majority of contact lens wearers experience high prices and limited service. This alliance can save these customers nearly 20 percent on their contact lenses while also offering the convenience of 24/7 live service from an associate by calling 1-800 CONTACTS or online at www.1800contacts.com.”

The companies expect to integrate store, web, and phone service this fall so customers can order when they want, how they want, and have their lenses delivered quickly to wherever they want.

About Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. operates Wal-Mart discount stores, Supercenters, Neighborhood Markets and Sam’s Club locations in the United States. The Company operates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. The Company’s securities are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol WMT.

About 1-800 CONTACTS
1-800 CONTACTS offers consumers an attractive alternative for obtaining replacement contact lenses in terms of convenience, price, breadth of inventory, and speed of delivery. Through its easy-to-remember, toll-free telephone number, “1-800 CONTACTS” (1-800-266-8228), the Company sells all of the popular brands of contact lenses. 1-800 CONTACTS offers products at competitive prices, while delivering a high level of customer service. In a public-to-private transaction, 1-800 CONTACTS was acquired by an affiliate of Fenway Partners LLC, a middle market private equity firm with approximately $2.0 billion under management.

Online Shopping - Everything you'd want to know!

from Wikipedia

Online shopping is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the Internet. An online shop, e-shop, e-store, Internet shop, webshop, online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or in a shopping mall.

The metaphor of an online catalog is also used, by analogy with mail order catalogs. All types of stores have retail web sites, including those that do and do not also have physical storefronts and paper catalogs.

Online shopping is a type of electronic commerce used for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions.

Consumers find a product of interest by visiting the website of the retailer directly, or do a search across many different vendors using a shopping search engine.

Once a particular product has been found on the web site of the seller, most online retailers use shopping cart software to allow the consumer to accumulate multiple items and to adjust quantities, by analogy with filling a physical shopping cart or basket in a conventional store. A "checkout" process follows (continuing the physical-store analogy) in which payment and delivery information is collected, if necessary. Some stores allow consumers to sign up for a permanent online account so that some or all of this information only needs to be entered once. The consumer often receives an e-mail confirmation once the transaction is complete. Less sophisticated stores may rely on consumers to phone or e-mail their orders (though credit card numbers are not accepted by e-mail, for security reasons).

Online shoppers commonly use their credit card for making payments, however some systems enable users to create accounts and pay by alternative means, such as:

Debit card
Various types of electronic money
Cash on delivery (C.O.D., offered by very few online stores)
Cheque
Wire transfer/delivery on payment
Postal money order
PayPal
Google Checkout
Moneybookers
Reverse SMS billing to mobile phones
Gift cards
Direct Debit in some countries

Some sites will not allow international credit cards and billing address and shipping address have to be in the same country in which site does its business. Other sites allow customers from anywhere to send gifts anywhere. The financial part of a transaction might be processed in real time (for example, letting the consumer know their credit card was declined before they log off), or might be done later as part of the fulfillment process.

While credit cards are currently the most popular means of paying for online goods and services, alternative online payments will account for 26% of e-commerce volume by 2009 according to Celent.[

Once a payment has been accepted the goods or services can be delivered in the following ways.

Download: This is the method often used for digital media products such as software, music, movies, or images.

Shipping: The product is shipped to the customer's address.

Drop shipping: The order is passed to the manufacturer or third-party distributor, who ships the item directly to the consumer, bypassing the retailer's physical location to save time, money, and space.

In-store pickup: The customer orders online, finds a local store using locator software and picks the product up at the closest store. This is the method often used in the bricks and clicks business model.

Simple systems allow the offline administration of products and categories. The shop is then generated as HTML files and graphics that can be uploaded to a webspace. These systems do not use an online database.

A high end solution can be bought or rented as a standalone program or as an addition to an Enterprise resource planning program. It is usually installed on the company's own webserver and may integrate very well into the existing supply chain so that ordering, payment, delivery, accounting and warehousing can be automated to a large extent.
Other solutions allow the user to register and create an online shop on a portal that hosts multiple shops at the same time.

Open source shopping cart packages include osCommerce, Magento and Zen Cart. Virtuemart is a shopping extension for the extremely popular CMS Joomla.

Commercial systems can also be tailored to ones needs so that the shop does not have to be created from scratch. By using a framework already existing, software modules for different functionalities required by a webshop can be adapted and combined.

E-commerce product sales totaled $146.4 billion in the United States in 2006, representing about 6% of retail product sales in the country. The $18.3 billion worth of clothes sold online represented about 10% of the domestic market.[3]

For developing countries and low-income households in developed countries, adoption of e-commerce in place of or in addition to conventional methods is limited by a lack of affordable Internet access.

Online stores are usually available 24 hours a day, and many consumers have Internet access both at work and at home. A visit to a conventional retail store requires travel and must take place during business hours.

Searching or browsing an online catalog can be faster than browsing the aisles of a physical store. Consumers with dial-up Internet connections rather than broadband have much longer load times for content-rich web sites, and have a considerably slower online shopping experience.

Some consumers prefer interacting with people rather than computers (and vice versa), sometimes because they find computers hard to use. Not all online retailers have succeeded in making their sites easy to use or reliable.

In most cases, merchandise must be shipped to the consumer, introducing a significant delay and potentially uncertainty about whether or not the item was actually in stock at the time of purchase. Bricks-and-clicks stores offer the ability to buy online but pick up in a nearby store. Many stores give the consumer the delivery company's tracking number for their package when shipped, so they can check its status online and know exactly when it will arrive. For efficiency reasons, online stores generally do not ship products immediately upon receiving an order. Orders are only filled during warehouse operating hours, and there may be a delay of anywhere from a few minutes to a few days to a few weeks before in-stock items are actually packaged and shipped. Many retailers inform customers how long they can expect to wait before receiving a package, and whether or not they generally have a fulfillment backlog. A quick response time is sometimes an important factor in consumers' choice of merchant.

In the event of a problem with the item - it is not what the consumer ordered, or it is not what they expected - consumers are concerned with the ease with which they can return an item for the correct one or for a refund. Consumers may need to contact the retailer, visit the post office and pay return shipping, and then wait for a replacement or refund. Some online companies have more generous return policies to compensate for the traditional advantage of physical stores. For example, the online shoe retailer Zappos.com includes labels for free return shipping, and does not charge a restocking fee, even for returns which are not the result of merchant error. (Note: In the United Kingdom, Online shops are prohibited from charging a restocking fee if the consumer cancels their order in accordance with the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Act 2000

Online stores must describe products for sale with text, photos, and multimedia files, whereas in a physical retail store, the actual product and the manufacturer's packaging will be available for direct inspection (which might involve a test drive, fitting, or other experimentation).

Some online stores provide or link to supplemental product information, such as instructions, safety procedures, demonstrations, or manufacturer specifications. Some provide background information, advice, or how-to guides designed to help consumers decide which product to buy.

Some stores even allow customers to comment or rate their items. There are also dedicated review sites that host user reviews for different products.

In a conventional retail store, clerks are generally available to answer questions. Some online stores have real-time chat features, but most rely on e-mail or phone calls to handle customer questions.

One advantage of shopping online is being able to quickly seek out deals for items or services with many different vendors (though some local search engines do exist to help consumers locate products for sale in nearby stores). Search engines and online price comparison services can be used to look up sellers of a particular product or service.

Shoppers find a greater selection online in certain market segments (for example, computers and consumer electronics[5]) and in some cases lower prices. This is due to a relaxation of certain constraints, such as the size of a "brick-and-mortar" store, lower stocking costs (or none, if drop shipping is used), and lower staffing overhead.

Shipping costs (if applicable) reduce the price advantage of online merchandise, though depending on the jurisdiction, a lack of sales tax may compensate for this.

Shipping a small number of items, especially from another country, is much more expensive than making the larger shipments bricks-and-mortar retailers order. Some retailers (especially those selling small, high-value items like electronics) offer free shipping on sufficiently large orders.

Given the lack of ability to inspect merchandise before purchase, consumers are at higher risk of fraud on the part of the merchant than in a physical store. Merchants also risk fraudulent purchases using stolen credit cards or fraudulent repudiation of the online purchase. With a warehouse instead of a retail storefront, merchants face less risk from physical theft.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption has generally solved the problem of credit card numbers being intercepted in transit between the consumer and the merchant. Identity theft is still a concern for consumers when hackers break into a merchant's web site and steal names, addresses and credit card numbers. A number of high-profile break-ins in the 2000s has prompted some U.S. states to require disclosure to consumers when this happens. Computer security has thus become a major concern for merchants and e-commerce service providers, who deploy countermeasures such as firewalls and anti-virus software to protect their networks.

Phishing is another danger, where consumers are fooled into thinking they are dealing with a reputable retailer, when they have actually been manipulated into feeding private information to a system operated by a malicious party. On the other hand, dealing with an automated system instead of a population of store clerks reduces the risk of employees stealing consumer information, or dumpster diving of paper receipts. Denial of service attacks are a minor risk for merchants, as are server and network outages.

Quality seals can be placed on the Shop webpage if it has undergone an independent assessment and meets all requirements of the company issuing the seal. The purpose of these seals is to increase the confidence of the online shoppers; the existence of many different seals, or seals unfamiliar to consumers, may foil this effort to a certain extent.

A number of resources offer advice on how consumers can protect themselves when using online retailer services.[6] These include:

Sticking with known stores, or attempting to find independent consumer reviews of their experiences; also ensuring that there is comprehensive contact information on the website before using the service, and noting if the retailer has enrolled in industry oversight programs such as trustmark or trust seal. Ensuring that the retailer has an acceptable privacy policy posted. For example note if the retailer does not explicitly state that it will not share private information with others without consent.

Ensuring that the vendor address is protected with SSL (see above) when entering credit card information. If it does the address on the credit card information entry screen will start with "HTTPS".

Using strong passwords, without personal information. Another option is a "pass phrase," which might be something along the lines: "I shop 4 good a buy!!" These are difficult to hack, and provides a variety of upper, lower, and special characters and could be site specific and easy to remember.

Privacy of personal information is a significant issue for some consumers. Different legal jurisdictions have different laws concerning consumer privacy, and different levels of enforcement. Many consumers wish to avoid spam and telemarketing which could result from supplying contact information to an online merchant. In response, many merchants promise not to use consumer information for these purposes, or provide a mechanism to opt-out of such contacts.

Brick-and-mortar stores also collect consumer information. Some ask for address and phone number at checkout, though consumers may refuse to provide it. Many larger stores use the address information encoded on consumers' credit cards (often without their knowledge) to add them to a catalog mailing list. This information is obviously not accessible to the merchant when paying in cash.

Apparel, accessories and footwear $18.3 billion
Computer hardware and software $17.2 billion
Autos and auto parts $16.7 billion
Home furnishings $10.0 billion
Total products sales (excluding travel) $146.4 billion
Travel $73.5 billion[8]

Many successful purely virtual companies deal with digital products, (including information storage, retrieval, and modification), music, movies, office supplies, education, communication, software, photography, and financial transactions. Examples of this type of company include: Google, eBay and Paypal. Other successful marketers use Drop shipping or Affiliate marketing techniques to facilitate transactions of tangible goods without maintaining real inventory. Examples include numerous sellers on eBay.

Some non-digital products have been more successful than others for online stores. Profitable items often have a high value-to-weight ratio, they may involve embarrassing purchases, they may typically go to people in remote locations, and they may have shut-ins as their typical purchasers. Items which can fit through a standard letterbox — such as music CDs, DVDs and books — are particularly suitable for a virtual marketer, and indeed Amazon.com, one of the few enduring dot-com companies, has historically concentrated on this field.

Products such as spare parts, both for consumer items like washing machines and for industrial equipment like centrifugal pumps, also seem good candidates for selling online. Retailers often need to order spare parts specially, since they typically do not stock them at consumer outlets -- in such cases, e-commerce solutions in spares do not compete with retail stores, only with other ordering systems. A factor for success in this niche can consist of providing customers with exact, reliable information about which part number their particular version of a product needs, for example by providing parts lists keyed by serial number.

Products less suitable for e-commerce include products that have a low value-to-weight ratio, products that have a smell, taste, or touch component, products that need trial fittings — most notably clothing — and products where colour integrity appears important. Nonetheless, Tesco.com has had success delivering groceries in the UK, albeit that many of its goods are of a generic quality, and clothing sold through the internet is big business in the U.S. Also, the recycling program Cheapcycle sells goods over the internet, but avoids the low value-to-weight ratio problem by creating different groups for various regions, so that shipping costs remain low. On-line or teleshopping as it is sometimes called is relatively new. Real-time transaction processing from a domestic television was first demontrated by Michael Aldrich[UK 1979] who designed and installed systems in the UK including the first Tesco pilot system in the 1980s.

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Macy's Launches New Initiatives to Drive Sales, Earnings
Company to Strengthen Market Localization and Enhance Customer Service
While Consolidating Three Divisions

CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2008--Macy's, Inc. (NYSE:M) today announced new initiatives to strengthen local market focus and enhance selling service which, in combination with the consolidation of three Macy's divisions, is expected to enable the company to both accelerate same-store sales growth and reduce expense. (Editor's Note: Macy's, Inc. this afternoon also issued a separate news release reporting January 2008 sales.)

"Improving sales and earnings performance requires innovation in engaging our customer more effectively in every store, as well as reducing total costs," said Terry J. Lundgren, Macy's, Inc. chairman, president and chief executive officer. "We believe the right answer is to reallocate our resources to place more emphasis and talent at the local market level to differentiate Macy's stores, serve customers and drive business. "In essence, we plan to drive sales growth by improving our knowledge at the local level and then acting quickly on that knowledge. These moves will benefit our customers as well as our shareholders," Lundgren added. "In addition, we believe our new strategies will speed up decision making and simplify the process of working with our vendors."

Localization Initiatives
Called "My Macy's," a localization initiative was developed over the past year based on customer research, as well as input from Macy's store managers, senior division executives, merchandise vendors and industry experts. Its goal is to accelerate sales growth in existing locations by ensuring that core customers surrounding each Macy's store find merchandise assortments, size ranges, marketing programs and shopping experiences that are custom-tailored to their needs. To maximize the results from My Macy's, the company is taking action in certain markets that will:

Concentrate more management talent in local markets, effectively reducing the "span of control" over local stores; Create new positions in the field to work with division central planning and buying executives in helping to understand and act on the merchandise needs of local customers; Empower locally-based executives to make more and better decisions. This new structure will be adopted for those geographic markets that have been a part of Macy's North, Macy's Midwest and Macy's Northwest as they are consolidated into Macy's East, Macy's South and Macy's West, respectively (see next section for description of consolidations).

Macy's locations in these markets will be grouped into 20 newly formed districts of about 10 stores (compared with an average of 16 to 18 currently overseen by each regional manger). Districts will be based in cities including Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Portland, Ore., St. Louis, Salt Lake City and Seattle. Each new district will have a manager and a small staff of store merchandisers and planners. These districts will report into their divisions through new regional offices being established in Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Seattle.

District-based executives will be empowered to make more local decisions about space allocation, service levels and visual merchandising, which the company believes will enhance execution. Additionally, district-based planners will provide market-specific intelligence to division planning offices. More resources also will be provided to local markets for special events and to enhance customer service. A total of approximately 250 new district and region positions will be based in those local markets adopting the new model. This will roughly double the number of management positions in the field in these markets.

Merchandise localization will be supported by a series of new systems and technology being rolled out in 2008 to all Macy's divisions (including Macy's Florida) to facilitate more detailed store-level execution and assortment planning. In part, this will allow merchants to more accurately assort each Macy's store with items, brands, garment sizes and colors preferred by customers who shop that specific location.

Division Organization Consolidations
Effective immediately, the company will begin consolidating its Minneapolis-based Macy's North organization into New York-based Macy's East, its St. Louis-based Macy's Midwest organization into Atlanta-based Macy's South and its Seattle-based Macy's Northwest organization into San Francisco-based Macy's West. The Atlanta-based division will be renamed Macy's Central. All current store locations will remain in place.

The consolidation of divisional central office organizations, expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2008, will affect approximately 950 positions at the Macy's North headquarters offices in Minneapolis, 850 positions at the Macy's Midwest headquarters offices in St. Louis, and 750 positions at the Macy's Northwest headquarters offices in Seattle. Executives currently in the Macy's North, Macy's Midwest and Macy's Northwest central organizations will be considered for positions in the new local market organization or for open positions elsewhere in the company. Employees laid off in this process will be provided severance benefits and outplacement assistance. The company's Miami-based Macy's Florida and New-York based Bloomingdale's divisions are not affected by today's announcement.

Financial Aspects
The savings from the divisional consolidation process, net of the amount invested in localization initiatives and increased store staffing levels, are expected to reduce Macy's, Inc. SG&A expense by approximately $100 million, beginning in 2009. The partial-year reduction in SG&A for 2008 is estimated at approximately $60 million.

Macy's, Inc. will take one-time pre-tax charges of approximately $150 million in 2008 for expenses related to the division consolidations. This will include relocation assistance for executives being assigned, as well as severance and outplacement assistance for displaced employees. In addition, there will be a slight negative impact on gross margin in the spring season as inventories in the consolidated divisions are aligned.

2008 Guidance
In fiscal 2008, Macy's, Inc. is assuming a continued challenging economic environment through most of the year with some modest improvement expected by the fourth quarter. Given the uncertain macroeconomic environment, the company's range for same-store sales guidance for 2008 is wider than usual: down 1.0 percent to up 1.5 percent. Including this sales assumption and impact of the division consolidations, Macy's, Inc. is assuming earnings per share on a diluted basis of $1.85 to $2.15, excluding one-time costs, for fiscal 2008. Effective with 2008, the company has decided to no longer provide quarterly sales or earnings guidance.

While the company still expects to reach its goal of increasing EBITDA as a percentage of sales to the historic peak range of 14 percent to 15 percent, management does not believe it will do so in the 2008-2009 time period because of the impact of lower-than-expected sales growth in 2007 and 2008 due in large part to the macroeconomic environment. The company is budgeting capital expenditures of approximately $1.1 billion in 2008. Macy's, Inc. expects to continue to buy back its stock in 2008, depending on market conditions.

Division Principal Changes
As part of the transition process, Jeffrey Gennette, currently chairman and chief executive officer of Macy's Northwest, will relocate to San Francisco as chairman and chief executive officer of Macy's West. He will succeed Robert L. Mettler, who has agreed to postpone his planned July retirement and will remain with Macy's, Inc. as president for special projects, reporting to Vice Chair Susan D. Kronick. In this position, Mettler will focus initially on strategic development of the company's cosmetics business.

Gennette will lead the Macy's West principal team that will continue to include Daniel H. Edelman, president and chief operating officer, and Rudolph J. Borneo, vice chairman and director of stores. The new Macy's West division will incorporate 257 Macy's stores in 13 western states and Guam, with 2007 sales of approximately $7.0 billion. Robert B. Harrison, currently Macy's Northwest president and chief operating officer, will remain in Seattle to supervise the transition and later will be reassigned to a senior position within the company.

At Macy's North, Frank J. Guzzetta, chairman and chief executive officer, and Robert M. Soroka, president and chief operating officer, both will retire as they had previously planned in spring 2008. Amy Hanson, Macy's North vice chairman and director of stores, will remain in Minneapolis to supervise the transition and later will be reassigned to a senior position within the company.

Following the consolidation, Macy's East will continue to be led by Ronald Klein, chairman and chief executive officer, and Mark S. Cosby, president and chief operating officer. The consolidated Macy's East division will incorporate 252 stores in 20 eastern and midwestern states and Washington, D.C. with 2007 sales of approximately $9.0 billion.

William P. McNamara, Macy's Midwest chairman and chief executive officer, will remain with the company in a new role leading development of future Macy's reinvent strategies, reporting to Lundgren. Brian L. Keck, president and chief operating officer of Macy's Midwest, will remain in St. Louis to assist with the transition.

Following the consolidation, Macy's Central will continue to be led by Edwin J. Holman, chairman and chief executive officer, Andrew P. Pickman, president and chief merchandising officer, and Michael G. Krauter, vice chairman and director of stores. The consolidated Macy's Central division will incorporate 240 stores in 18 states with 2007 sales of approximately $5.3 billion. All retail division chairmen, including Klein, Holman and Gennette, will continue to report to Kronick.

"Macy's, Inc. has benefited from exceptional leadership at the divisional level, and this will continue to be the case going forward across the company. Bob Mettler has been an exceptional and highly effective leader at Macy's West, and we are fortunate that he will remain with the company to provide additional leadership and strategy development, initially in the cosmetics business. Frank Guzzetta, Bob Soroka, Bill McNamara and Brian Keck are outstanding retailers who have been instrumental in the transition of the Macy's North and Macy's Midwest organizations after the acquisition of The May Department Stores Company in 2005," Lundgren said.

Gennette, 46, has been chairman and chief executive officer of Macy's Northwest since February 2006. For the previous two years, he served at Macy's Central in Atlanta as executive vice president and director of stores. Gennette was senior vice president/general merchandise manager for men's and children's at Macy's West in San Francisco from May 2001 to March 2004, and before that vice president/division merchandise manager for men's collections at Macy's West. Gennette joined Macy's West in 1983 as an executive trainee and held various merchant and store management positions in that division. During his career, Gennette also has served as a store manager for FAO Schwarz and regional vice president for Broadway Stores.

Guzzetta, 62, became chairman and chief executive officer of Macy's North in February 2006 after serving as president of Marshall Field's since January 2005. Previously, he was president and chief executive officer of May Company's Hecht's/Strawbridge's division since 2000. He joined Hecht's in 1988 as a divisional vice president and divisional merchandise manager before being promoted to senior vice president and general merchandise manager and, later, executive vice president of merchandising. Prior to joining May, he worked in retailing for 11 years at Woodward & Lothrop.

Hanson, 49, joined Macy's North as vice chairman in July 2006. A 25-year Macy's, Inc. veteran, she joined the company in 1983 and held positions of increasing responsibility at the Corporate Office and at The FACS Group (now Macy's Credit and Customer Services). She joined FACS in 1991 as group manager for planning and receivables before being promoted to senior vice president in 1997 and president of credit services in 2000. She was named president of FACS in 2002.

Harrison, 44, has been president and chief operating officer of Macy's Northwest since February 2006. Previously, he was chairman of Robinsons-May in Los Angeles since October 2004, having previously served as that division's senior vice president and chief financial officer since June 2002, as well as the senior vice president for finance of the Meier & Frank division before it was merged with Robinsons-May. Harrison began his career at May Company's Kaufmann's division in 1986 as an accounting analyst and served in positions of increasing responsibility before becoming vice president and controller of Kaufmann's.

Keck, 55, was named president and chief operating officer of Macy's Midwest in October 2005. He began his career with May Company in 1986 as divisional vice president and director of recruitment and placement for Famous-Barr in St. Louis. In 1987, he was named senior vice president of human resources at May Centers, May's former shopping center development division. In 1989, he was named senior vice president for human resources for the Meier & Frank division in Portland, Ore., and was named to a similar position in 1992 at Filene's in Boston. In 1997, Keck was named chairman of the Meier & Frank division, and in 2000 was selected to head the corporation's human resources organization.

McNamara, 57, was named chairman and chief executive officer of Macy's Midwest in October 2005. He began his retailing career in 1972 as an executive trainee at Filene's in Boston. He served in a variety of executive and buying positions until 1986, when he was named senior vice president and general merchandise manager at Filene's. In 1995, McNamara was named senior vice president and general merchandising manager at May Merchandising Company in St. Louis. In 1997, McNamara was named president and chief executive officer of Famous-Barr, and in 1998 became president of May Merchandising Company. He became the corporation's vice chairman in 2000.

Mettler, 67, was named chairman and chief executive officer of Macy's West in June 2002 after having served as the division's president and chief operating officer since 2000. Mettler began his retail career in 1962 as an executive trainee at Jordan Marsh in Boston, then a division of Allied Stores Corporation. Mettler stayed with Allied until 1986, having risen through the merchandising ranks at Jordan Marsh before being named president and chief executive officer of Joske's San Antonio in 1980, and chief executive officer of Joske's of Texas in 1984. Two years later, he joined the May Company as president and chief executive officer of its L.S.Ayres division before being named to that post at Robinson's in California in 1987. He joined Sears in 1993 as president for apparel and home fashions, and rose to become president of merchandising for full-line Sears stores.

Soroka, 56, became president and chief operating officer of Macy's North in February 2006 after serving as chairman of Marshall Field's since October 2004. Previously, he was chairman of Robinsons-May in Los Angeles and, before that, the division's senior vice president/chief financial officer. Soroka joined May in 1970 at O'Neil's, May Company's former department store division headquartered in Akron, Ohio. From 1983 through 1990 he held increasingly responsible financial and credit positions at three additional May department store divisions.

Macy's, Inc., with corporate offices in Cincinnati and New York, is one of the nation's premier retailers, with fiscal 2007 sales of $26.3 billion. The company operates more than 850 department stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico under the names of Macy's and Bloomingdale's. The company also operates macys.com, bloomingdales.com and Bloomingdale's By Mail. Prior to June 1, 2007, Macy's, Inc. was known as Federated Department Stores, Inc.

All statements in this press release that are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of Macy's management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this release because of a variety of factors, including conditions to, or changes in the timing of, proposed transactions, prevailing interest rates, competitive pressures from specialty stores, general merchandise stores, manufacturers' outlets, off-price and discount stores, new and established forms of home shopping (including the Internet, mail-order catalogs and television) and general consumer spending levels, including the impact of the availability and level of consumer debt, the effect of weather and other factors identified in documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Limitless possibilities of shopping online might soon be over

Maggie Clark, aka Shopaholic

The Internet creates the idea of endless freedom and convenience for the shopping world.

Whether you are purchasing clothes, electronics or vacations the Internet allows you to comparison shop and purchase from home. However, there are purchasing restrictions that one faces while shopping on the Web.

When you buy tickets to a sporting event, concert or other high-demand event, it is common to see a restriction on the number of tickets one customer can purchase.

When shopping for tickets such as the Rockies World Series tickets, there typically is a maximum ticket per purchaser. Is this really necessary? Venue holders fear that one customer purchasing more than 10 tickets to a single event may be trying to make a profit from them. Most events have a limit of eight tickets per single purchaser; very high-demand events might have an even lower maximum buy. This is to help regulate ticket scalping.

This policy now is extending to luxury accessories.

While the Web gives the impression of endless opportunity, our weak dollar has many luxury stores feeling threatened. This is causing some stores to take precautionary measures.

High-end shoppers may be in for a surprise when they go to purchase multiple colors or styles of one designer item. The high price tag on a designer item might restrict the typical shopper to only one luxury item. However, there is a restriction that even endless money cannot bypass. Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman now have a policy that applies to designer handbags, like Prada's latest ruched nylon styles that cost $1,290, Bottega Veneta's signature woven leather hobos at $1,490 and the new rectangular Yves Saint Laurent clutch that goes for $1,395.

Do these restrictions keep the exclusiveness of the product? This might be the case but there is an ulterior motive to these policies as well. Their motivation stems back to the current status of our U.S. dollar. There is fear that foreign buyers will hoard the bags then resell them in Europe or Asia where the same items in Prada and Gucci stores typically cost 20 percent to 40 percent more. The popular Yves Saint Laurent Downtown bag, which is restricted to three per customer at Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman, costs roughly $300 less (900 pounds) at Harvey Nichols in London.

While foreign shoppers warmly were welcomed by many retailers last month, it is a slightly different story for luxury stores. Gucci and Prada have spent the last decade trying to reach those customers in their own countries by opening expensive new shops throughout Asia and Europe. An online researcher searching for a high-end bargain might be costing these select stores.

For now, the policies at Saks, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman apply to online sales only of handbags and shoes. Many foreign shoppers were boarding planes to the United States with the intent to bargain shop less than one month ago. This may result in these policies losing 100 percent effectiveness.

Maggie Clark, aka Shopaholic, is a Coloradoan advertising sales executive. She does not write about her clients. She never met a bargain she could pass up and she always can find room in her closet for another pair of shoes.

eFashionHouse offers online shoppers unlimited designer handbag purchases

Unlike other online stores, eFashionHouse.com offers online shoppers freedom to purchase an unlimited amount of designer handbags. Many large department stores limit online designer handbag purchases to one item per customer.

Sky Valley, CA (PRWEB) January 21, 2008 – eFashionHouse announced today they have no limits when it comes to online shoppers. They do not limit the amount of items one customer can purchase. Unlike the department stores who announced on January 10, 2008, a worldwide purchase control of designer handbags, eFashionHouse proclaims the opposite.

“Our Internet business moto is ‘Shopping without Boundaries.’ We are in business to cater to the world,” said Anna Miller, eFashionHouse.com’s owner. Online shoppers can purchase as many items as they want when placing an online order at eFashionHouse.com.

eFashionHouse was named Best of the Web by People StyleWatch and recognized by About.com as the top online retailer of Chanel.

eFashionHouse ships worldwide, offers deep discounts off retail, charges no sales tax and provides free USA FedEx delivery for orders over $200. Selling online for over twelve years, eFashionHouse lists high end brands like Chanel, Prada, YSL, Gucci, Fendi, Bottega Veneta, Tods, Coach, Tano, Marc Jacobs, Ferragamo, Dior and more.

Unlike many of the other online stores selling the same products, eFashionHouse allows online shoppers to purchase as many designer fashion accessories they want. There’s no limit to the items online shoppers can purchase and the money they can save. eFashionHouse is known for deep discounts on their entire product line.

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Anna Miller is the President of i-GlobalMall.com, Inc. She operates the website http://www.efashionhouse.com/ and sells high-end authentic designer handbags and accessories at off-retail prices. eFashionHouse.com was named BEST OF THE WEB by People StyleWatch Magazine for Discount Designer Handbags and Purses. eFashionHouse.com should not be confused with any other website selling a similar product or using a similar name. eFashionHouse.com is the home of five fashion ecommerce stores: BrandsBoutique, LuxuryVintage, DesignersLA, ItalysOutlet, and ValueBags. Anna is considered an Internet Pioneer and has been reselling Designer Merchandise online since the early 90s.

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Eastbay is a leading world supplier of athletic footwear, apparel and sports equipment. It was established to meet the performance needs of local high school and college athletes within Central Wisconsin. Originally viewed as a grassroots project, this venture grew into a worldwide direct mail catalog and internet sales conglomerate featuring top athletic brands such as adidas, ASICS®, Reebok, Converse, New Balance, Saucony and Nike.

The company began in 1980 when boyhood pals and high school coaches Art Juedes and Rick Gering set out to find professional-quality shoes for their athletes and ended up in business for themselves. With little more than $7,000 worth of running shoes and a dream, the pair took to the road and set up shoe clinics near their Wausau, WI hometown. At each stop they educated attendees with the benefits of their shoes and provided descriptive price lists.

Three years later, in 1983, these price list handouts became a four-color catalog featuring shoes for track & field and baseball. The catalog was a catalyst for sales. In 1988, phone operators were hired to take orders. In 1989, Eastbay began a Team Sales division and in 1990 created and produced its first in-house Team Sales catalog. By 1990, Eastbay's Call Center, Shipping and Creative Departments occupied nearly an entire city block.

Eastbay also established its own clothing brand in 1990, offering jackets, pants, shorts and tops in a variety of team colors and styles, all featuring the signature Eastbay logo.

On Friday, Sept. 29, 1995 Eastbay went public and opened on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Two years later, shareholders sold the company to retail giant Woolworth.

In July 1997, Eastbay moved its downtown corporate operation and retail store to a larger space in Wausau's near west side. Three months later it combined the shipping department and various warehouses into a new 500,000-square-foot Distribution Center located in the outskirts of Wausau. In March 1998, Eastbay converted its informational website into an active ecommerce site at www.eastbay.com. Shortly following, to manage a tremendous increase in sales, two additional 24-hour Call Centers were opened in Oshkosh, WI and Green Bay, WI.

Although an era ended when Eastbay founders Art and Rick retired on June 30, 1999, the business continues to thrive. Eastbay's parent company, Woolworth, also underwent revision in November 2001, changing its name to Foot Locker, Inc., a reflection of its global commitment to the athletic footwear and apparel business.

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by Rodney Yee January 3rd, 2008
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“Be the change you want to see in the world.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

New Years resolutions are upon us. Some of us no longer sit down and write them out or even give them much thought. Too many times we have been resolute on New Years Day, only to see our determination fade just weeks later.

How do we stick to the changes we want to make within ourselves?

When we have a habit that is tenacious, we build up our determination to overcome it. But through yoga I have realized that determination alone may not be sustainable. It turns into an inner war that zaps your energy quickly.

Thich Nhat Hanh says “Peace is every step.” This implies that we need to be conscious, aware and vigilant each and every moment. It is this awareness in the present moment that leads to skillful action, which leads to sustainable change.

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How to Find a Chanel Handbag For Less Money

By Scott Nichols

Undoubtedly, Chanel is one of the biggest names in the fashion industry. With a complete line of fashion products, Chanel is in high demand. Chanel handbags are of particular interest to women all over the world because these particular Chanel accessories are displayed as the epitome of fashion.

Chanel handbags are available in a wide array of styles, fabrics and colors. From leather to canvas, contemporary to classic, there is a Chanel handbag for every occasion and every taste. Chanel handbags are designed to be used, not merely displayed. The handbags often include a large variety of features that make them practical as well as pretty. Chanel prides itself on a product of intelligent design. For instance, the Chanel Cambon Clutch has lots of pockets and zippered openings, gorgeous silver hardware and, of course, the Chanel logo.

The price of Chanel handbags ranges from the low hundreds to several thousand dollars and are sold in stores and online venues worldwide. Chanel handbags are made from the finest leathers, silks and fabrics so the quality is obviously reflected in every Chanel hand bag. Chanel handbags are versatile and can go just about anywhere.

The Chanel Classic Cavier Handbag is one of the Chanel handbags in the lower price range, yet it delivers the same quality and style particular to the market. This particular Chanel hand bag can be used during the day or evening; it is made from the softest leather with a strap of gold chain. Of course, its interior is stamped with the Chanel logo.

The Soft Smooth Lambskin Leather Clutch is a mid-range handbag that is a beautifully appointed black leather bag. This handbag has a price tag of $1,145. The Small Quilted Lambskin Camelia Handbag costs a few hundred dollar more, and is just as attractive.

Other lambskin handbags are available in a variety of colors and styles. Online stores market a wide range of Chanel handbags, with one of the most expensive pegged at $3,400. This is the Quilted Cambon Multipocket Handbag Purse. Made in Italy, this Chanel handbag boasts of a zip closure with multiple pockets inside and out and lovely decorative appointments.

Chanel hand bags are one of the most often duplicated in the world. Undoubtedly, Chanel, as one of the most important and longest lasting design houses in the world, produces a desirable commodity. This means that everyone wants to get in on the money by selling cheap knockoffs that are often discernible from the original. Be sure that you buy your Chanel handbag from a reputable dealer so that you don’t pay a lot of money for a bag that is not an authentic Chanel.

Online Shopping Brokers: Sharper Image

Online Shopping Brokers: Sharper Image

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Grocery Shopping Online – Taking the Stress out of Shopping

By Rebecka Whitlock

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Grocery shopping online has emerged as a great new way to get the household foods and products you need without the hassle of driving to the store. Internet shopping has been around for years, and it has proved to be a very popular way for people to buy a variety of items. It took a while, but grocery stores finally started realizing that they could take advantage of the online shopping craze too.

Although not every grocery store chain has jumped on the Internet bandwagon, more and more are doing it every year. Since it is clear that shopping online is something that is here to stay, grocery store chains are finally realizing that they can attract even more customers by allowing people the convenient of grocery shopping online. Since grocery shopping involves buying a lot of perishable items, shopping online for groceries is a little different than ordering products from other online stores. Instead of waiting for products to be shipped through the mail, those who order grocery products online instead get their items personally delivered to their doors, usually on the same day or the next day. Fees for delivery are usually quite reasonable, and grocery stores that provide grocery shopping online advertise occasional deals where the delivery is free. Also, all weekly sales are the same online as they are if you visit the actual stores.

The Online Shopping Craze

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With people now becoming more and more technology savvy and internet hooked, they find online shopping a convenience means of shopping which helps them avoiding any traffic jams, parking problems and is a easy process.

Very recently the online shopping has taken pace and most of the companies actually encourage their perspective customers to go online shopping by introducing online discounts on various items. Online shopping helps us to avoid parking hassles, traffic jams and we all know that we now have actually started preferring to buy online. This is where online shopping becomes a dream for everyone.

Online shopping in a way to encourage customers doing more online shopping offers many discounts during festival seasons and actually people end up buying products in large quantity.

Many families even now buy weekly food shopping online as now everyone prefers doing the food shopping in this way and we now don’t have to wait for our items scanned and does not have to put up with the children asking if they can have this or that.

Online shopping revolution has only just started and more and more web sites are going online as this is an imposing way to offer this service and that their websites will become even more impressive and easy to use for the consumer. People particularly women will forever love to go shopping but I think for certain goods, for instance larger and more luxurious items, that they will be mostly bought online.

In approximately five years time the majority households in the UK will have admittance to the Internet consequently initiating even more latent customers to the alternative of online shopping.

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At eFashionHouse.com our customers can shop with confidence in five stores using one shopping cart and checkout process. The five stores are briefly described below.

BrandsBoutique.com
A designer fashion clearing house featuring over 100 famous Designer Names at 20% - 90% off the original retail price. Brands Boutique.com sells new, high-quality, authentic designer merchandise at unbeatable svaings.

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A resale shop for previously owned high-end, authentic, designer merchandise. Luxury Vintage.com also sells previously owned merchandise from many other main-stream designers. The pre owned items are in excellent, gently used condition.

ValueBags.com
Don't want to spend a fortune for a designer purse and still look stylish? ValueBags store sells high quality bags and accessories at very low prices. There are many authentic designer bags from main stream designers and some no-name handbags and purses available at price ranges from $10 - $50. They are all a value! Nothing is over-priced. It’s all a ValueBag!

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(1.) Discount Designer Handbags & Purses. Created for the budget conscious consumer who wants to carry a high-quality designer handbag but doesn't want to spend a fortune, ValueBags.com highlights a different designer handbag each day (Fab Bag of the Day), from designers like Coach, Dooney & Bourke and BCBG, all at below-retail prices. The blog also features coupon codes and links back to the particular featured handbag.

(2.) TANO Handbags Purses & Wallets. Devoted to all things Tano, i-GlobalMall.com is the perfect blog for Tano fans worldwide. Each day the blog features a new Tano style at below-retail prices. Tano lovers will also find articles relating to this trendy, yet reasonably priced, handbag line which offers a variety of styles and colors, not to mention the cleverest handbag names around. Plus visitors will find special coupon codes good for additional discounts off of their favorite Tano handbag.

(3.) Handbags, Purses, Jewelry, Clothes - DesignersLA. A great blog dedicated to honoring Los Angeles-based designers, DesignersLA.com features the handbag and accessories from some of the hippest designers in LA. From household names like Juicy Couture and Rachel Pally to smaller labels like Circa Studio and Bells & Whistles, whether you reside in LA land or not, you are sure to love this site detailing all the glitz and glamour that is LA fashion. Plus the site features particular items at a discount prices. If you are a Los Angeles Designer, please submit your bio to CustomerCare@eFashionHouse.com to be featured on DesignersLA.com.

(4.)Vintage Designer Handbags Purses & More. Ever since Hollywood starlets have started showing up on the red carpet in vintage gowns and accessories, vintage handbags and accessories are back in a big way. For those who admire the classic lines of fashion past, then LuxuryVintage.com is for them. Each day the blog features a different vintage designer handbag and accessory, from coveted designers like Chanel and Hermes to one-of-a-king jewelry, vintage groupies will love the looks and the off-retail prices.

(5.) Designer Fashion Brands. Despite the recent grumblings about the handbag bubble bursting, we all know that the "it-bag" still reigns supreme. BrandsBoutique.com is for the fashionista who knows that building your handbag collection isn't just about carrying the latest designer craze but about being a true handbag connoisseur. The site not only features a different designer handbag daily but also includes articles that discuss all things handbags, from handbag fads to tips on properly cleaning your handbag.

(6.) Loft 102. Let's face it a contemporary view on fashion, inspiration and all that jazz can easily come from a modern living space. Loft 102 was just that...a modern living space where eFashionHouse was born. Now, Loft 102 is a blog devoted to modern thinking, creating and inspiring. It's a contemporary view on fashion, designer handbags, purses, hats, scarves, jewelry, belts, shoes, and all-things-modern for every day living. This Blog features articles, Press Releases and art work from eFashionHouse.com.

About eFashionHouse.com
Anna Miller is the President of i-GlobalMall.com, Inc. She operates the website http://www.efashionhouse.com and sells high-end authentic designer handbags and accessories at off-retail prices. EFashionHouse.com was named Best of the Web by People Magazine StyleWatch for Discount Designer Handbags and Purses.

EfashionHouse.com should not be confused with any other website selling a similar product or using a similar name. EfashionHouse.com is the home of five fashion ecommerce stores: BrandsBoutique, LuxuryVintage, DesignersLA, ItalysOutlet, and ValueBags. Anna is considered an Internet Pioneer & Ecommerce Entrepreneur. She's been reselling Designer Merchandise online since the early 90s.

5 Advantages to an Online Shopping Mall

Experts agree that shoppers will spend an unprecedented amount of money buying gifts online this holiday season. Just as "big box" stores draw an inordinate number of shoppers, so does the online shopping mall. Here are five reasons why an online shopping mall is so appealing to many:

1. No More Driving
With gas prices in some areas of California inching toward five dollars a gallon, it's no wonder that people are thinking twice about getting into their SUVs and heading to the stores. An online shopping mall allows you to get all of the gifts you need with a few clicks of your mouse - without ever starting up the engine.

2. Ultimate Convenience
With an online shopping mall, you never have to worry about the crowds on a Saturday morning, gunning for a parking spot, or where you're going to leave the kids so you can buy their holiday gifts. By definition, an online store is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can shop after the kids have gone to bed, you can shop in your pajamas and bunny slippers, or you can shop at peak times with the knowledge that you're not standing in line at a checkout counter. It can't get more convenient than that!

3. Freedom to Browse
Perhaps you know precisely what you need, or maybe you're looking for inspiration. Either way, an online shopping mall fits the bill. If you know that Aunt Mary loves certain fragrances, for example, you can easily hone in on the perfect gift. On the other hand, if you're unsure what toys would appeal to your nephew, an online shopping mall lets you browse to your heart's content until you find the toy that will delight him.

4. Endless Selection
A great online shopping mall mirrors the best brick-and-mortar mall in that it has a virtually limitless selection - without having to traipse from store to store with armloads of packages. Apparel, auto parts, cell phones, computers, personal electronics, home and garden gifts, jewelry, sports, and toys are all available at a good online mall. Tens of thousands of items are all at your fingertips.

5. Great Prices
An online shopping mall has many advantages over a traditional mall, but perhaps none is more compelling than the pricing. After all, online stores don't have the overhead expenses of brick-and-mortar stores - like rent, utilities, display, sales clerks, and so forth - so they can pass along the savings to you. For that reason, they can offer products at or sometimes below wholesale prices.
If you're an avid online shopper, you'll undoubtedly do much of your holiday shopping online. Rather than shop from several online sources, you'll find it much easier to track your purchases when you make them at one online shopping mall. So put the kids to bed, put on your bunny slippers, and let your fingers do the clicking!

Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the worlds MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web.

Monday, Monday

by nick gerlich Thanksgiving has come and gone, and with it, so has Black Friday. It has been interesting reading student blog replies both before and after that momentous day. My wife and I broke with tradition and ventured out in the pre-dawn hours in the central Indiana chill, and made a token contribution to the economy of the Hoosier State.
According to the pundits, Black Friday was a mixed bag. The long and the short of it is that per-shopper expenditures were down, but the number of shoppers was up. All told, Black Friday sales rose 8.3% over last year, but each shopper spent $12 less (down to $348).

In other words, the bargain hunters were out in force. And Becky and I were two of them. We gobbled up a few Sony 7.2MP digital cameras at Wal-Mart for under $80, and 1GB Memory Sticks for under $20. One camera is a gift; the others are just cheap replacements for our personal cameras. And judging by the lack of excitement over the pallet of cameras, I’d have to say that digital cameras are so 2004 that it resulted in a collective yawn. No, the real door busters this year are GPS units and cheap flat panel TVs.

But that was all last weekend now. Today is Monday, or as they now know in the trade and media, Cyber Monday. Yes, the day we all go back to work and school, and proceed to use company time and university resources to go shopping online.

Even on Friday, some 32% of shoppers bought online, with sales of $531 million, up 22% from last year. The forecast is for today (and the rest of the holiday season) to post more big gains for online retailers.

One survey, as reported by the Boston Globe, predicted 72 million people would shop online today, up from 60.7 million last year. And while some may question why we should wait until Cyber Monday to shop online when last Friday was just as good as any other day, we must remember that the “tradition” of Cyber Monday sprang up back in the late-1990s when most people did not have high-speed internet access. That meant waiting until Monday to access the T1 line at work.

And while the majority of US residences now have broadband, many e-tailers have geared their promotions to today, including lwo prices and offers of free shipping. Toss in sales tax avaoidance for many people, and suddenly the idea of clicking from home or office sounds pretty attractive.

How important is online shopping? One study showed that 66% of all shoppers check things out online before buying anywhere (online or offline).

I suppose we need a blockbuster Cyber Monday to keep the analysts happy. They appeared to be upbeat after Black Friday’s net gains (even though it was mostly bargain hunting). I have already done my part for Cyber Monday, but it was an electronic gadget for yours truly that I will use in my online classes next semester.

Now consider this: A mere 15 years ago we wouldn’t even be having this conversation, because e-commerce hadn’t been invented yet. And you wouldn’t be reading about it in a blog or in an online class.

Sure beats dealing with crowds.

Shopping Online SAVES YOU more than MONEY!

Online merchants happy, so far

from CNNmoney

Sites eBay! & Amazon

say they're seeing bigger-than-expected

spike in traffic,

deals in first days of holiday shopping season

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Two online retail companies gave positive reports on the first days of the Thanksgiving weekend, saying sales were up significantly in the traditional holiday kickoff period from a year earlier.

eBay! said its Shopping.com site saw a 61 percent increase in Black Friday traffic from the 2006 period. Meanwhile, PriceGrabber.com, a comparison-shopping site run by Britain's Experian Group Ltd., said referrals from its site to participating merchants were up 47 percent on Black Friday from a year ago. According to both merchants, projections for online sales increases this season are in the 20 percent range, to about $33 billion. "Early signs from a very busy Black Friday show that many shoppers are grabbing their mouse instead of their car keys this holiday season," Jim Griffith, eBay Inc. dean of education, said in a statement.

Amazon 'Kindles' readers' imaginations
Both eBay and PriceGrabber said the Nintendo Wii game console was among the most popular items sold online. eBay said its namesake site sold 358 Wiis on Black Friday at an average price of $411.76, more than $161 above its suggested retail price. eBay said Webkinz pet toys were the hottest toys on the Shopping.com site this year. Both sides are expecting a bump up in traffic on Monday, a day often referred to as Cyber Monday because it's usually the first big day of holiday online shopping of the season. But the sites say they expect the second Monday in December - Dec. 10 this year - to be the busiest day for shopping online

Online Shopping Brokers: ShopBop

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Online Shopping Brokers: ShopBop

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With dollar low, US is one big outlet

Europeans arriving in droves for bargains

By Jenn Abelson Globe Staff / November 24, 2007

WRENTHAM - Hours after her flight from Dublin landed in Boston on Thanksgiving, Alice Kinsella headed in a white van with a dozen relatives and friends to Wrentham Village Premium Outlets. The 36-year-old has never visited Boston, but she is bypassing the sights for an extended weekend of binge shopping that started at midnight yesterday.

For Kinsella and other Europeans, America is one big discount bin, thanks to a weak dollar that slid this week to another record low against the euro. As a result, tourists are spending thousands to travel to the United States to snag blockbuster bargains on everything from iPods to designer clothes and handbags.

By 4 a.m. yesterday, Kinsella had rung up nearly $2,000 in Christmas presents and winter clothes, including a $79 black leather jacket at Guess that she estimated would cost more than $250 in Ireland.

"The bargains for us are so great," said Kinsella, who paid $1,000 for a flight and hotel but expects to save even more on purchases here.

Kinsella is one of a record 1,000 international tourists who scheduled organized shopping trips yesterday to Wrentham Village Premium Outlets - more than double the number last year. Hundreds more were expected to come on their own, according to Beth Winbourne, the outlet's general manager.

Foreign travelers have long visited the United States to get their holiday shopping fix. After all, many design er brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, and Guess are cheaper here because sales taxes are lower and because the bigger market here allows goods to be priced more competitively.

But now American wares are even more of a bargain as the slowing US economy has weakened the dollar. Further, as the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates to boost the economy, the dollar has lost even more value, and global investors have realized they won't earn as much when they park their cash in greenbacks. As a result, the euro has shot up by 33 percent compared with the dollar since 2002, so Europeans who exchange 1,000 euros now get close to 1,500 US dollars. And the Canadian dollar is worth as much as the US dollar for the first time in three decades.

While some US shoppers are tightening their purse strings this holiday season amid rising gasoline prices, the slumping housing market, and the current credit crunch, the one silver lining for some merchants is the tidal wave of foreign dollars pouring into US stores.

"With Americans looking to cut back and conserve because of economic uncertainties, the holy grail this holiday-season year for retailers are the international travelers who are coming here in record numbers," said Patrick Moscaritolo, president of the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Online Shopping Brokers: Woman Within

Online Shopping Brokers: Woman Within

About Woman Within®

We are Woman Within®, formerly known as Lane Bryant® Catalog. While we have a new name, our commitment to comfort, style and value continues to be the hallmark of our brand. With extensive experience designing fashions in sizes 12W to 44W, we remain the leader in women’s plus-size apparel.

For decades, Lane Bryant® Catalog has satisfied every apparel need of the plus-size woman, including lingerie, sportswear, suiting and special occasion wear. Woman Within® catalog will continue to do so, because we know our customers and will continue to offer great merchandise that meets their individual needs.

With our recent name change, we wanted more than just another name—we wanted a definition. After reviewing years of correspondence with our customers, we confirmed that a Woman Within® customer buys from us because she cares about how she feels as much as about how she looks. She wants to feel comfortable in her clothes, confident in herself and smart about the value she receives. Equally important, a Woman Within® customer wants to be fashionable without being a victim of short-lived fashion trends. That is why we now offer the broadest selection of sportswear, career clothing, special occasion apparel, outerwear, intimate apparel, shoes (to size 14WW and plus-calf boots), and now fragrance and accessories. Our online shop offers speed, privacy, and over 1,000 styles, so our customers can be both comfortable and fashionable.

Woman Within® is not only our new name, it is our promise that we will always acknowledge each customer’s “inner voice,” the one that asks for the comfort, quality and value she has come to expect from our company. Woman Within® reflects our customers’ needs and respects their desires, building on our early commitment to an individual customer’s shape, size and age. Woman Within® will make you feel confident, smart and at home.

Online Shopping Brokers: Red Envelope

Online Shopping Brokers: Red Envelope

Launched in 1999, RedEnvelope’s mission is to make gift giving—no matter what the occasion or circumstance—simple and fun. Through a unique assortment of gifts, many created exclusively for us, and our easy to use Web site and seasonal catalogs, we offer a shopping experience that’s inspired, modern and convenient.

The name RedEnvelope comes from an Asian tradition in which gifts are often presented in a simple red envelope—a timeless symbol of good fortune, love and appreciation. We believe that whether a gift is a token of gratitude or a grand gesture of love, its giving and receiving is a cherished occasion in itself.

RedEnvelope, Inc. was incorporated in California in June 1997 under the name “Giftworks Online, Inc.” and changed its name to “911 Gifts, Inc.” in December 1997. We reincorporated in the state of Delaware under the name “911 Gifts, Inc.” in March 1999 and changed our name to “RedEnvelope, Inc.” in September 1999.

Online Shopping Brokers: Jessica London

Online Shopping Brokers: Jessica London

Women's Plus Size Clothing 14W - 34W

Plus Size Clothes: Shopping Big

By Jeanette Pollock

Women in America are larger than in past decades and plus size clothing manufacturers, realizing this, have spent the last five years ramping up their marketing efforts. According to a recent study completed by research firm Mintel, nearly $32 billion was spent on plus size clothing in 2005. The growth in the plus size clothing market in the last five years has exceeded 50 percent.

According to the Centers for Disease Control 62 percent of U.S. women are overweight or suffer from obesity. Research indicates an expected 10 percent plus size clothing market growth in the next decade.

More than half of the respondents in the Mintel study said they buy plus size clothing. The biggest group of plus size clothing providers is online catalog merchants such as Brylane, home of Lane Bryant and Roamans. Local and national retail chains are also starting to jump on the plus size clothing bandwagon as well, with retailers such as Kohl's and Penny's expanding their noted label products to include larger sizes.

Plus size clothing fashion and design options are expansive - much more so than a decade or so ago. For many years, women have had to shop from a very limited selection of plus size clothing. Now the styles are more flattering and more diverse, the manufacturer's distributions are wider and the plus size clothing products are mass merchandised like never before.

Celebrities such as Oprah and Queen Latifah as well as comedian Mo'Nique have championed the acceptability of the plus size clothing industry. In 2005 Mo'nique introduced the first annual plus size beauty pageant, which was televised nationally. It has become clear to these manufacturers that obesity is lucrative, as women with the money to spend on looking fashionable flock to plus size clothing stores, departments and catalogs.

Survey: Workers set to shop on the job

Boston Business Journal

In terms of shopping online on Cyber Monday, many workers can barely contain themselves.

Close to half of American workers are expected to shop while at work on the Monday after Thanksgiving - the online retailing world's version of Black Friday - according to a new survey by Decision Analyst conducted on behalf of BJ's Wholesale Club, the company said this week.

The study from Natick, Mass.-based BJ's Wholesale (NYSE: BJ) surveyed over 500 working people across the country.

Although more than 11 percent said they had been caught shopping by their boss while on the job, the survey showed that the temptation to find a great bargain is so strong, they would spend nearly an hour on average shopping online this Monday instead of working.

As on Black Friday, many e-retailers offer some of the most exceptional deals of the year on Cyber Monday.

However the desire to find bargains online lasts far beyond Cyber Monday. The BJ's survey showed that about 50 percent of those surveyed said they do all of their online shopping at work, while 13 percent said they have shopped online during a conference call.

Online shopping to kick into high gear

72 percent of Internet retailers plan to offer deals, survey says.
By Kristin McAllister
Black Friday sales account for about 15 percent annually of the country's total economy, but Cyber Monday is fast becoming a vital part of the high-octane holiday shopping weekend, according to online retail analysts.Independent technology and market research company Forrester Research Inc. anticipates online sales this holiday season to reach $33 billion, a 21 percent increase over last year and 12.3 percent of all Internet holiday shopping sales.

The online holiday shopping season kicks off every year during the Monday following Thanksgiving and continues to climb for three weeks until it peaks, usually mid-December. The National Retail Federation reports that 58.5 percent of consumers do their holiday shopping online to avoid crowded retailers."Clearly, more and more households own personal computers and, therefore, are involved in getting on the Internet and, consequently, doing business and buying things," said Jim Munch, Wright State University marketing department chairman. "And the challenge of higher oil prices is undoubtedly encouraging more of us to shop from home."

Recognizing that growing consumer market, 72 percent of online retailers will offer special deals on Cyber Monday, up from 43 percent two years ago, according to a new survey by Shop.org, an online retailers association. And a survey of 5,000 U.S. households this month by the Conference Board Consumer Research Center found that 38 percent of respondents who last year purchased Christmas gifts online were satisfied with their buying experience. "Consumers are ... willing to spend more than last year, though retailers can still expect a fair share of bargain hunters will be lining up for the traditional kickoff this Friday," said Lynn Franco, center director.

And while the office supply industry, such as Staples, Office Depot and Office Max, in 2006 was a $250 billion industry, it only had 12 percent total sales from online shopping. That's about to change, retail analysts say. Industry experts now project that within three years, online sales will account for 50 percent of the office supply products industry's total sales.

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Online Shopping Brokers: CHEFS

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Since 1979, chefs catalog is a trusted name for the best in kitchen products. From the beginning, chefs quickly became the leading catalog retailer of top-quality cooking equipment at exceptional values, both for home chefs and culinary professionals.

Today, in print and online, chefs offers the best products for the kitchen from the world's top brands, including All-Clad, Calphalon, Cuisinart Cookware, Cuisinart Electrics, Henckels, KitchenAid, Le Creuset, Waring, Wusthof. With an expanding product offering to meet all kitchen needs, chefs also offers bakeware, cookware, cutlery, dinnerware, furniture, kitchen electrics, specialty foods, and more.

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Online Shopping Brokers: YOOX

Online Shopping Brokers: YOOX

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Thanks to a direct relationship with designers, manufacturers and authorised dealers, YOOX is the No.1 multi-brand virtual boutique for fashion & design in the world. YOOX offers exclusive collections by prestigious Italian and international designers, a carefully selected range of end-of-season clothing and accessories at accessible prices. Furthermore, you can also find vintage collectibles, special creations for YOOX by up-and-coming designers, worldwide premières of new brands, and a fine selection of design and books. The quality of all products is guaranteed, thanks to regular and careful controls.Each month, YOOX is visited by 3 million people and there are more than 4.000 new daily arrivals.The YOOX World is fast-paced. If an item interests you, do be quick - someone else might get there first.

Welcome to YOOX.COM. These General Terms and Conditions of Use govern your access to, use of and purchase of products from the United States section of YOOX.COM (the "US Site"). By using the US Site, you agree to comply with and be bound by these General Terms and Conditions of Use. If you do not agree to these General Terms and Conditions of Use, please do not use the US Site.

YOOX.COM is the property of YOOX S.p.A., an Italian company having an address at Via Nannetti, 1, 40069 Zola Predosa – Bologna, Italy ("YOOX"). The US Site is operated, under license, by Yoox Corporation, a Delaware corporation having an address at 80 River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030 ("YOOX USA").

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Online Shopping Brokers: Max Studio

Online Shopping Brokers: Max Studio

Max Studio was founded in 1979 by designer Leon Max, MaxStudio.com constantly refelcts on the clothing needs of today's woman. To achieve this Mas Studio.com continurally searches for the very best in fabirsc, yarns, and leather good from around the world. A new collection is presented every fifteen days.

Maxstudio.com a leading brand in contemporary women's clothing seeks Keyholders and Sales Associates for store locations throughout Southern California. You, the ideal candidate will come from a similar retail environment where you would have demonstrated excellent customer service and sales ability.

Keyholders will have at least a minimum of 6 months supervisory experience. Must have strong sales skills. Ability to multi-task and prioritize assignments.Sale Associates should have a minimum of 1-year sales experience in women’s apparel and enjoys developing a client base to meet sales goals. There are part-time and full-time positions available.Maxstudio.com offers a competitive salary plus commission and good benefits for eligible associates. Please fax resume to store of interest or email: ramona@maxstudio.com

Positions available at the following stores:

Camarillo outlet store 850 E. Ventura Blvd. #734 Camarillo, CA 93010 Fax: 805-987-9211

Paseo Colorado290 East Colorado Blvd. #A107 Pasadena, CA 91101Fax: 626-577-789

Santa Monicaoutlet store2712 Main StreetSanta Monica, CA 90405Fax: 310-396-8684

Sherman Oaks14006 Riverside Drive #76-ASherman Oaks, CA 91423Fax: 818-783-5814

Topanga Plaza6600 Topanga, Space 2070BCanoga Park, CA 91303 Fax: 818-712-0101