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The History of Ecommerce: What The Past Says About Tomorrow’s Retail Challenges

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When you factor in the expanded ecommerce selling opportunities through omni-channel retail (like adding Amazon and eBay storefronts to your sales approach, for example), it’s easy to see that now is the best possible time to grow an ecommerce business. By 2001 the company was profitable. Omni-Channel Consumers Spend More, Too.

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234 American Business Owners on Starting, Scaling and Staying Inspired

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Even though it was right after 9/11 and the economy was dire, we opened the day after Thanksgiving in 2001, just in time for Christmas, and have been in Abilene, Kansas ever since. He is a veterinarian and I spent the last decade in online retail, so the opportunity finally emerged for it to become a reality.