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To: John May who wrote (71230)	8/3/1999 1:51:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) of 164684

>>"Same-store-sales" comparison measures revenue per unit produced by fixed capacity (a retail store in a fixed location) year-to-year. "Existing-customer" comparison measures revenue per consumer produced by ever expanding capacity (the Internet store) year-to-year.<< Is that "Internet store" with or without the warehouses? Did you ever consider the fact that a place like Officemax has probably about as much $ worth of merchandise in the back warehouse as they do out on shelves? Maybe even more, when you consider that anything electronic has to be "pulled" from the warehouse, after you give the item ticket with the SKU # on it to the cashier. Amazon seems to be building an awful lot of warehouse space. And how about those employees at Amazon? Sure is a lot of 'em and the employee ranks are sure expanding upwards at a dramatic pace. Amazon is no "virtual" company with some kind of money machine hooked up to a few servers with pipelines into the WWW. Making real profits was never easy in a capitalist competitive environment, as Amazon is finding out. I noticed Amazon dropped below the magic $100. Now it's down what, 20% for the year? Or something close.

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