ITM 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Infomediary, Online Advertising, E-Commerce
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Chapter 5 e-commerce: advances in technology, product variety, and consumer demand have brought an accompanying change in retailing strategy. The arrival of the telegraph enabled orders to be placed rapidly and shipped by mail. Rail and airline transportation brought new and rapid possibilities for order fulfillment. 1880s (mail order, catalogue retailing), 1920s (chain/dealer stores), discounters, Warehouse clubs, 1980s (category killers), internet retailers: there is still much unexplored potential in these technologies that relate to everything we do as a society, so artificial distinctions will not serve any particular purpose. We group these technologies together and simply call it e-commerce. Government(b2g) online sales to government agencies as well as electronic payments of taxes government of ontario; consumer-to-government(c2g) . Electronic payment of taxes as well as purchase of various types of licenses taxes to federal government; consumer-to-consumer(c2c) use of online auctions like ebay and similar other sites kijiji, amazon.