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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (108791)	9/22/2000 11:30:51 AM
From: Eric Wells	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

I doubt the retail laws within any single European country are not any more complex than our own. Glenn - I agree with everything in your post except for the one point above. I spent some time living in Italy in the early nineties - and at the time, there were all sorts of laws regarding what types of shops could be open on certain days and even during which hours of the day. For an American that was used to popping over to the grocery store in the middle of the night, or even wanting to go to the bank between 9 and 5 (banks kept very sporadic hours) it was maddening. In fact, most retail shops were closed on Sundays. Laws regarding e-tailing will most certainly be different. But it just seems that a lot of European countries have a tendency to impose laws regarding when and how you can sell certain items - there appears to be much more regulation that what we have here in the US. Things certainly may have changed since I lived there in 1991 - and things are certainly likely to change as we go forward. -Eric