Should Every Retail Outfit Have A Webpage?

Kaz Riprock asks: "A few months ago, I was looking for a store where I could purchase AbraCabubble, a hard candy with gum center made by Brach's. I figured most manufacturers have a website with product locator and the closest store to me with Brach's bulk candy would do. After an hour or two probing the web with Google (like you needed the link), I was only able to come up with a few stock projections. This was amazing to me, because when I set out to find even the most obscure facts on the web, I usually don't come back quite so empty-handed, especially when looking for a presence for the third largest candy manufacturer in the US. Since then, they've put up a website. It's true that a business could get by without a web presence in this day and age, but what's the likelihood? What's the largest business that you sought lately to find an official page on and came up without anything to show for your efforts? Have they since come around and put a page up? I think it'd be interesting to keep a page (or even use this article) of companies that you should not expect to find a page on, so that at the very least, you'd find that page and know to stop looking. Thoughts?"

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McBaby

[singularity]

My mother was looking for a specific article of baby clothing she saw at Wal-Mart (do not get me started - I boycott the place personally, but it is hard to convince new grandparents). They did not have the size she wanted, so she enlisted my help to find the clothes on the Internet.

The brand was McBaby. Apparently McDonald's (another non-favorite of mine) and Wal-Mart (horror of horrors, up there with Microsoft in my opinion) came together to create a line of infant clothing called, appropriately enough, McBaby.

These are two huge companies in the U.S., including the largest.

Wal-Mart does not carry clothing on their website, and a search of McDonald's turned up barely a reference to the clothing line.

In short, the only reference I found to it was on used infant clothing sites.

If you want to domain-sit something, I would suggest mcbaby.com.

I do not suppose you can get much bigger than a joint McDonald's and Wal-Mart partnership.

Re:They get by just fine

[BusterB]

Except that they now have one.