Which E-Commerce System Will Fail This Season?

Esther Schindler writes "Every year, there's some retailer whose e-commerce or supply chain fails. And it's a big deal, since the holiday shopping season can make or break their year. The IT challenge encompasses everything from server scalability to supply chain management to search engine optimization to database cajoling to business integration to... well, come to think of it, just about everything. To explore this, CIO.com has a big package of articles examining "Black Friday" and its implications, entitled E-Commerce and Supply Chain Systems Gird for Black Friday. Topics covered include online shopping and holiday IT failures. Despite all this—and at least ten years of industry experience in e-commerce sales—we all just know that someone will make yet another big mistake. I wonder who it'll be this year?"

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This Will All Does Not Matter. I Make My Own Gifts

[mrs clear plastic]

Folks:

For the past fifteen years, I have not done any Christmas shopping. I have been making my family's gifts instead of fighting the mall crowds.

My only shopping is for raw materials and I do that in the summer and fall, when e-commerce is not under stress; or the places I go to don't really need it. (Goodwill stores for used fabric, the bike shop for used metal parts, or the dumpster for any scrap metal or fabrics.

The only 'e' in my Christmas is the electronics in my sewing machine or TIG welder!

Beyond saving me the frustration of shopping, making my own gifts adds a personal touch to my Christmas giving; this is the way it was done in the old days. We all used to make something for each other.

There is something lacking about shopping for a gift on line and having it shipped directly to the recipient. There is no personal, human contact between the bearer and the receiver of the gift.

Home made gifts have the ultimate in human, personal contact between me and those whom I grace with my home made creations.

If you want to see what the imagination of a 55 year old man who spends all his spare time being creative can create, go to www.clearplastic.com

Peace

We're all doomed!

[Msdose]

The U.S. Postal Service is systematically destroying all packages sent to other countries. This has happened to me twice in the last week. The packages are returned to the senders in the destoyed condition like a warning. Once this gets out it will cause consumers to stop all online buying. The communists win!