daretodream Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 How many of you here sell products and have them in retail stores and online? Can I also ask which one sells more, online storefront or off line retail? If it is offline, can I ask which stores are your biggest sellers? Yes, I do have a website and no I'm not trying to spam . I use this information for college students I mentor . One girl is doing a report on online vs retail. Plus, I would personaly like to know how the online retail business is vs brick stores. Thanks for the information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥bruyndoncx Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 Our online and retail store are quite complementary. We have a broad range of products, but only certain particular items are selling really well via the web, while they are less sold in the shop. In our line of business it seems people search for specific items that are sold out in other places, or new things, not yet available at their local shop (in their country). We also have a fair amount of people finding us on the web and then visiting the shop from like 20/50/100 miles / 30/80/150kms away to pick up their stuff. I'd love to have more pure web sales, but - need to update the products / content - haven't done any online specific promotion yet - haven't even optimized for SEO yet BTW, sales numbers in our case are not a proper basis for comparison. A cash sale in the shop is handled much faster than a sale via the web (invoicing, packing), so the operating cost of each websale is higher then at the retail shop. Hope this provides some insight, feel free to PM for some more info. Carine KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON I do not use the responsive bootstrap version since i coded my responsive version earlier, but i have bought every 28d of code package to support burts effort and keep this forum alive (albeit more like on life support). So if you are still here ? What are you waiting for ?! Find the most frequent unique errors to fix: grep "PHP" php_error_log.txt | sed "s/^.* PHP/PHP/g" |grep "line" |sort | uniq -c | sort -r > counterrors.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpiscopo Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 It would depend on what you're selling. I don't have a retail store, but I do find it difficult to think that if I had a retail store that the sales could exceed the volume I'm selling online (many of my customers are purchasing items for their wedding, a lot more people getting married across the country than locally). However, another person who is selling something such as cars or dishwashers would find it difficult to sell as much online as they do through the net. The two should compliment each other, but depending on what you sell one will always do better than the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥bruyndoncx Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 I agree with the above statement, plus a few more observations - our brick & mortar business is in business for 60 years, so we've had some time to build up a reputation - our (osc) online shop is only really active since a few months - also the square meters showroom/retail shop figure in this equation, we've got 650m2 retail space with loads of products, with only a small percentage on the web. It's like comparing apples and oranges in our case, and I'm sure there are a lot like us who have an established brick&mortar business and only getting active on the web recently. KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON I do not use the responsive bootstrap version since i coded my responsive version earlier, but i have bought every 28d of code package to support burts effort and keep this forum alive (albeit more like on life support). So if you are still here ? What are you waiting for ?! Find the most frequent unique errors to fix: grep "PHP" php_error_log.txt | sed "s/^.* PHP/PHP/g" |grep "line" |sort | uniq -c | sort -r > counterrors.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burt Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 One of my clients recently closed his bricks-n-mortar shop as his website is doing so well in sales. Bear in mind that the cost of running a shop (eg rent, rates, stock on hand, wages, insurance etc etc) is so much more than simply running a website. Though he has lost out on the sales from his offline shop, he has actually increased overall profit as he now works from home and has hi full attention on the web rather than trying to be both web and offline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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