... Internet has taken its place next to the telephone and television as an important part of people's lives. Every day, more consumers are using the Internet for financial activities like investing, banking and shopping. If you surf the Internet, then you"re probably familiar with the terms "digital stores" and "online malls." Thousands of consumers are now taking advantage to shop ... exciting tool that puts vast information at your fingertips, with a click of a mouse, let's you buy an airline ticket, book a hotel, send flowers to a friend, or even purchase your own stock. The growing tec...

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... guaranteed. Wal*Mart led the industry in 1993, with $67,345,000 in net sales. Their gross profit was 24.9 and net income was 2,333. Their end of the year stock price had gone down slightly form the previous year to $25 per share. One might say that Wal*Mart has been a real player in the discount retail store industry and ... are in the growth/maturity phase and just as Wal*Mart copied industry leaders during this phase, so too are these companies. Whether it's owning their own distribution centers or investing in electronic scanning of UPC at the point of sale, Kmart and Target are catc...

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