RE: UKNM: Boo's special offer

[Stewart Dean]

> <whinge>I reckon shopping for clothes on the Net is a

> complete pain if you

> live in the UK.  During a recent attempt to kit out my Summer

> wardrobe, I

> couldn't find a Gas denim jacket, a Levi denim jacket, nor a

> Diesel hooded

> top in any colour except cream (Diesel's UK range is very limited).  I

> tried buying Oakley sunglasses online: you can only purchase

> them if you

> live within Alaska, Hawaii or the States.  Well... that's not

> much use to

> me.</whinge>

>

> In contrast, I found a nice parlour palm for my flat within


> minutes...    :)


Sounds a bit like Chiswick in West London - you can buy plants, food and a

mobile phones from one of the many mobile phone shops (and I mean many) but

can you buy jeans and boxer shorts? Nope.


It appears product lines in most online stores are secondary to the intent -

and it's not just the UK that does this.


In New York there are two competing services Kozmo and Urban Fetch that

offer delivery of videos and that kind of thing. Kozmo has a food section

and, feeling lazy on Sunday, was prepared to give it a go. Logged in, put in

my zip code (after finding it on the post office site) and found that

breakfast to Kozmo consisted of Crispie Creame doughnuts. Much as I like

these far superior to dunkin 'baked goods' they're far from breakfast.


Retailers (except for in Chiswick it appears) usually understand the need to

have things people want to buy - someone should tell the online upstarts.


The Internet is a bit like prison - you can get anything you want providing

you know who can get it.


Cheers


>

Stewart Dean - SDeanscient [dot] com

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