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  1. No, they handle 1.2% of all retail sales by Solandri · · Score: 2 · on Amazon May Handle 30% Of All US Retail Sales (usatoday.com)

    TFA says they handle 15% of all online retail sales, maybe 20%-30% if you include third party sales handled through Amazon. Online sales comprise only 8.1% of all retail sales. So Amazon's (very small) slice of the whole pie is just 1.2%, possibly 1.6%-2.4% if you include their third party affiliates.

    Amazon barely cracked the top-10 stores in retail sales for 2015. There's a tendency for people who like to be online to over-exaggerate the effect of the Internet. Retail sales are still very much a brick and mortar business.

  2. Re:For the same reason Black Friday *does* exist! by atta1 · · Score: 1 · on Cyber Monday Doesn't Exist

    Well, that explains why overall spending was up year to year AND the number of people shopping was up, according to the National Retail Federation , the folks who track such things. It's easy to put out opinions. It is hard to convince Joe Slashdot who actually takes the time to research.

  3. Re:Uh... neat! by pyrrhonist · · Score: 2, Informative · on NRF Calls SCO's Claims 'Meritless'
    So, who's the National Retail Foundation

    I'm sure that a person with an ID as low as yours is aware of the following options:

    • The link in the article: "The National Retail Federation has just put out..."
    • RTFA: "The National Retail Federation is the world's largest retail trade association, with membership that comprises all retail formats and channels of distribution including department, specialty, discount, catalog, Internet and independent stores as well as the industry's key trading partners of retail goods and services. NRF represents an industry with more than 1.4 million U.S. retail establishments, more than 23 million employees - about one in five American workers - and 2003 sales of $3.8 trillion. As the industry umbrella group, NRF also represents more than 100 state, national and international retail associations."
    • Google: National Retail Foundation
    and why does their opinion matter?

    I'm going to leave this as an exercise for the reader.

  4. The NRF is a heavy mover by DanTheLewis · · Score: 5, Informative · on NRF Calls SCO's Claims 'Meritless'

    (from their Mission Statement)

    The National Retail Federation is the world's largest retail trade association, with membership that comprises all retail formats and channels of distribution including department, specialty, discount, catalog, Internet and independent stores as well as the industry's key trading partners of retail goods and services. NRF represents an industry with more than 1.4 million U.S. retail establishments, more than 20 million employees - about one in five American workers - and 2003 sales of $3.8 trillion. As the industry umbrella group, NRF also represents more than 100 state, national and international retail associations.

    Yikes. One in five American workers and $3.8 trillion in Sales can't be wrong!

    Or can they?

    No.

  5. screw that! by twitter · · Score: 1 · on Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy
    Let's face it, the Internet is just not private. The Internet was conceived in a semi-private environment, absolutely bereft of retail commercial incentive, when the primary concern was sharing information.

    I'm not ready to give up, nor should I. People should be able to roam the web honestly and in an upright manner. Why should anyone have to go around lying to keep their inbox clean of shit? There's nothing wrong with the internet's goals or technology, it's how some people abuse it. Let's not clound the issue by mixing three seperate issues, privacy, spam and fruad.

    What I publish online is not private, it's what I want to share. What I tell my doctor, lawyer and even someone who sells me tutoring aids for my kids should be private. People who sell private information after prommising to keep it to themselves have betrayed my trust and commited fraud. People who explicitly lie about sharing what I tell them desrve to be fined.

    I want to share my email address but don't think that gives anyone the right to spam me. There should be a law against unsolicited comercial email and sooner or later, there will be. Spam is an abuse, and Mallory Duncan needs to be straightened out: Mallory Duncan, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Retail Federation, argues that mainstream corporations can police their own marketing practices. "The concern with spam is not with the Gap coupon you receive," said Duncan, who represents the largest lobbying and trade group for store owners. "It's the huge amount of porn and other things that were unsolicited."

    What the fuck is "mainstream"? Big? No Duncan, I don't want to hear from Gap any more than I want to hear from Hooked on Phonics or porn masters. It's all offensive. I think Duncan needs to be opted into a bunch of "mainstream" spammers:

    duncanm@nrf.com

    after all, the NRF posted it in a public place

    The answer to spam is a the same thing that cleaned up junk faxes, a big fat fine for people who send it. The kind of fraud described by the Washington Post is already against the law, and those laws should be enforced.