...IDEO Shopping Cart The IDEO Shopping Cart was a successful invention. It was successful because it was able to answer the problems of the normal shopping cart we see in various stores. Although it did not sell in the States, its idea went on and was found in France though a different variation. The IDEO cart was the invention that sparked others to build upon, that made it a success. What kept it from becoming mainstream in the U.S. was the use of the small baskets. The full size shopping carts were able to handle bulky items with ease such as 50lb dog food bags, televisions, and other items that were too large or heavy for the baskets. Most stores that require shopping carts carry heavy bulky items that the little baskets wouldn’t be able to handle. Considering that these larger items where usually the profit makers for stores, the store owners did not see the benefit. IDEO should have marketed the cart to stores that required carts but rarely sold items that would not fit in a single basket. Some wonder if it was ahead of its time. The shopping cart for the most part was ahead of its time. People are used to grabbing a cart and shopping, no stopping to put baskets in and out, no worries about hanging bags tearing from the cart on the way to the car. People were used to the simple big basket cart. It worked for them for decades and they did not see any reason to change something that is/was working. The big selling point to most people would have been...
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...Identifying software requirement Introduction. Purpose The Online Shopping Mall (OSM) web application is intended to provide complete solutions for vendors as well as customers through a single get way using the internet as the sole medium. It will enable vendors to setup online shops, customer to browse through the shop and purchase them online without having to visit the shop physically. The administration module will enable a system administrator to approve and reject requests for new shops and maintain various lists of shop category This document is meant to delineate the features of OSM, so as to serve as a guide to the developers on one hand and a software validation document for the prospective client on the other. Scope Initial functional requirements will be: - • Secure registration and profile management facilities for Customers • Browsing through the e-Mall to see the items that are there in each category of products like Apparel, Kitchen accessories, Bath accessories, Food items etc. • Adequate searching mechanisms for easy and quick access to particular products and services. • Creating a Shopping cart so that customers can shop ‘n’ no. of items and checkout finally with the entire shopping carts • Regular updates to registered customers of the OSM about new arrivals. • Uploading ‘Most Purchased’ Items in each category of products in the Shop like Apparel, Kitchen accessories, Bath accessories, Food items etc. • Strategic data and graphs for Administrators...
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...time we had a shoot we ordered about $350.00 worth of pictures. The package we order came with only 8x10 and 5x7 prints. We choose about ten different poses and we were very pleased with how they came out and happily paid the money and took our pictures home. As we were dividing the pictures up between our family, our Nana requested that she wanted all the pictures but in a 3.5x4 so she could put them in a album and flip through them whenever she missed the kids. I loved the idea and so did my mother, so I went back to the studio and told the girl working that I wanted 3 copies of every picture I had already purchased but in 3.5x4s. She was more than happy to help me. As she loaded my photos and started adding the ones I wanted to the shopping cart I noticed that the prices really jumped every time a new one was added. By the time she had added all 30 of my photos the price was $280.00. I could not believe it. I asked her if this was possible and she said it indeed was. I explained to her that I had already purchased $350.00 worth of pictures and would not be spending another $280.00 on thirty reprints which would normally cost $10.00 if I could them print myself at Target. She said that she totally understood what I was talking about. She told me to hang on so she could call her manager and see if there was...
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...For many people, Grocery shopping is thought of as a routine task in our everyday lives necessary to put food on the table; I consider grocery store shopping to be a maddening experience. For example, grocery store parking lots where most of the vacant parking spaces are occupied by abandoned shopping carts because some insensitive shopper couldn’t spare an extra ten seconds of their day to return something back where they found it, the audacity of people, it’s enough to make my blood pressure sky rocket. To illustrate further, several days ago while patiently waiting for a parking space, I observed a scruffy middle-aged man sporting brown, wavy hair sort of a stocky fellow, over-dressed in an expensive trench coat, unpacking his shopping cart. Slyly eyeing his surrounding’s to see if anybody is eyeballing his every move, like a fox seeking its prey, he quickly slithers into his car and ditches the cart right in the middle of the vacant spot I wanted to occupy, causing me to stop, get out of my car, and remove something that some inconsiderate numbskull could not be bothered to do. Additionally, parents that allow their children free will to run wild through the store, with no boundaries, screaming an ear deafening pitch, and leaping out in front of a swiftly moving shopping cart destroying products on the shelf creating a colossal mess, causing me to feel like the hair on my skin is standing straight up. I could practically feel steam coming out of my ears and my face...
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...3. Is the industry in which Aldi operates attractive? Aldi is now acknowledged as operating the leanest low-cost model in the world. The key to its success is low service and even lower choice. In my opinion, Aldi operate attractive but still have space for improvement. Aldi is a typical ‘hard discounter’, pursuing a cost-leadership strategy. Its approach is to offer a limited number of good quality products at low prices. Due to above reason, customers have limited choices of the products compare with those large chain supermarket eg. Coles. Aldi also offers a selection of ‘surprise buys’, which change every week and are only available as long as the stocks last. The Aldi website states that they focus on their own brands in order to remain independent, enabling them to avoid high marketing costs often associated with national brands and to set their own price, product and quality policies. According to Shoebridge, however, house brands are attractive for grocery retailers because they cost 5–20 per cent less than national brands, depending on the category. In addition, a retailer’s profit margin on house brands is about two percentages points higher than the margins on a national brand. The limited number of products enables Aldi to leverage its impressive buying power and to control the cost of its products by buying in large quantities. According to Brandes, Aldi has 30 to 100 times the buying power of Wal-Mart. Minimising costs at all levels in the value chain is the...
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...| | d. providing an institutional infrastructure, such as a legal and regulatory framework that enables the efficient functioning of the market | | Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 2 Marks: 1 Insurance companies and hotels sell services through storefronts called ________. Choose one answer. | a. RSS | | | b. browsers | | | c. portals | | | d. wikis | | Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 3 Marks: 1 The portion of an e-seller's business through which customers interact, including the seller's portal, electronic catalogs, shopping cart, and payment gateway, is referred to as the ________ of the business. Choose one answer. | a. front end | | | b. back end | | | c. infrastructure | | | d. intermediary | | Correct Marks for this submission: 1/1. Question 4 Marks: 1 E-marketplaces, shopping carts, e-catalogs, and auctions are the major Web 2.0 mechanisms. Answer: True False Incorrect Marks for this submission: 0/1. Question 5 Marks: 1 Online markets that are owned and operated by a single company and that are either sell-side or buy-side are known as ________. Choose one...
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...Page 1 Martin Lindstrom’s Buy•ology and Paco Underhill’s Why we Buy should be required reading for all business related major students. In Paco Underhill’s book he really digs in to and investigates that will make a person purchase on product from another. Paco Underhill is like the frontline specialist. On the sales floor is where he rules changing and adapting to consumers needs and wants. He is able to tell you why a product in one store is selling but not in another. Or why products that have huge advertisement budget have not really left the shelf. Now where Underhill is on the sales floor in his book, Martin Lindstrom digs into the minds of the consumers in his book Buy•ology. By doing this Lindstrom is able to identify why we purchase the products/ services we do. Now one thing that I really learned in Lindstrom’s book is that we lie. Consumers lie time and time again, not only are we lying to each other or surveys but to are selfs. Either that or we are to scared to tell the truth to anyone. In one of Lindstrom’s studies he was testing a new show for a U.S. audience that was already doing great in the U.K. The show was called Quizmania, to see how the audience was going to react to this show before it was even aired Lindstrom arranged at test of two hundred people. They had three shows for the group of two hundred to watch Quizmania, The Swan, and How Clean Is Your House? Now going into this study Lindstrom already new what people thought of both How Clean...
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...as the limited assortment concept. It carries only 700 to 1500 items compared to Wal-mart’s 25,000 items. It focuses on most frequently used products, and spices up its selection with “weekly specials” such as DVD players and house wares. Their “no frills” strategy is also one of ALDI’s cost saving methods. They eliminate virtually all of the extras. There are no baggers, fancy displays, check cashing or preferred customer savings programs. Customers shop out of open displays, which are easy to replenish and require the least amount of labor. They also use a shopping cart rental system. The customer is required to put a coin in the grocery cart and when the cart is returned the customer gets the coin back. This tactic cuts down on labor costs, since customers must take their cart back to its original location to receive their coin. This eliminates the need to hire employees whose job is to retrieve shopping carts. ALDI strives to maintain operational efficiency. Its “bare bones” approach to inventory acquisition has made it easier for them to order large quantities far in advance. ALDI has an amazing turnover rate. It can usually turn over its entire store inventory in only two weeks. This helps to ensure the freshness of all their products. Their stores receive new shipments almost daily from decentralized regional logistics centers. These centers are in almost constant contact with their vendors making a very efficient replenishment system. For instance ALDI has been...
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...IFEYINWA CHIGOZIE OKOLI MKT 6334.501-DIGITAL SALES STRATEGY ASSIGNMENT- REVENUEWIRE.COM 1) How does Revenue Wire compare to its competitors in its two chosen arenas (affiliate network management and online shopping carts)? Revenue wire Compares to its competitors in its two chosen arenas. Affiliate network Management. After three years of rapid growth in a relatively young industry, the affiliate and payment processing company RevenueWire.com found itself operating in a very different environment. Sales growth in the company's affiliate network service had levelled off, and orders for Q1 2010 looked just like those for Q1 2009. New competitors, low entry barriers, and a plateau in the affiliate market meant few opportunities for growth across the industry. Despite those conditions, the company's owners had set aggressive revenue targets for 2010 to 2012. The general manager was responsible for growing RevenueWire’s network by helping affiliates increase sales and make more money. She was also charged with building merchant business: that meant signing on new merchants and convincing merchants to use RevenueWire as an end-to-end solution from finding affiliates to delivering an effective shopping cart and payment experience. In order to increase revenue leach identified two approaches: 1) More of the same : continue to concentrate on the “pay per sale” model of the affiliate network provider. Growth in this area would mean signing on more affiliates and representing a...
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...The type of shopping cart used, whether customers can use it easily and it suits the needs of the business, will determine how successful the business is with their e-commerce sales. Being a service oriented business, True Haven will not have much of a stocked inventory for purchase. However, they may sell logo branded items or books. There are many options available for shopping cart software or programming. Open source shopping carts, which can be free, or a low cost paid service, are more customizable than others but have little or sometimes costly support service. Hosted shopping cart are easier to use, can be flexible in the design and come with support services due to the fact this is a paid service. A mix of open source and hosted shopping cart would fit True Haven, the organization not being a high product seller and a non-profit organization, therefore does not have the technical support staff on hand to support any option that would require such a need. The shopping cart chosen should be visually appealing, non visually appealing ones can deter people from making purchases on the site. The shopping cart should be user friendly as well, each button can easily be determined to what it does, and which to click for what. The shopping cart also needs to be secure. Customers will not want to input their credit/debit card information without knowing that there are measures being taken to keep their financial information safe. Fat.Free.Cart is a free shopping cart service that...
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...Jialiang Cui ID: 00952328 CIS 60 Chapter 10 RQ1: A cookie, also known as a tracking cookie, browser cookie, or HTTP cookie, is a text file that is stored on your computer by a website. The cookie can be used to track such information as shopping cart contents on websites, preferences, or authentication. A website uses cookie software and code for a variety of different reasons. Depending upon what the website is attempting to use the cookie for will influence how the website uses the cookie. For example cookies can be used to: * Track an individual’s time on a website. * Store data about a user during his or her navigation of a website, even over a number of visits. When a cookie is used like this, it can be used as a shopping cart application on the website. Cookies are stored on the user's hard drive. The directory is different for each platform. RQ2: Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. Well through the 20th century, stenography was a necessary skill for secretaries, reporters, and other people who needed to quickly and accurately record written information. In all cases, the goal of stenography is to make it easy to write something down quickly and with great accuracy. Using stenography, someone can record information much more quickly than he or she could be writing. Like many security...
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...1. Order item a.) Clicking on the “CART” button allows the user to go to the shopping cart page. b.) When the user clicks on the text field of Item ID, the condition “must be positive integer” will appear below the text field. c.) When the user clicks on the text field of Quantity, the condition “must contain digits” will appear below the text field. d.) The user can order an item by keying in the item ID and quantity and then clicking the “ADD ITEM” button. e.) If there are no error messages, then the order item will be saved in the shopping cart. f.) If the user does not key in any text for any text field and proceeds to click on the “ADD ITEM” button, the text field will change colour and the “*” will appear behind the text...
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...Case Study Best-Book-Buy Online Bookstore Requirements Specification Document (By Henrique Paques, Leo Mark and Shamkant B. Navathe) 1. Introduction The purpose of this case study is to present a data-intensive application for which a database can be designed. It is described with sufficient degree of detail so that the application can be implemented in languages like Java or C using ODBC or JDBC connectivity to the relational database. This case study is an illustration of the typical project we have been using to teach an undergraduate class in database design that covers essentially the first 16 chapters of the textbook at Georgia Tech. The user interface is defined in screen format – these screens can be implemented using Visual Basic or Java as needed, or a simpler version of the interface using simple text menus may be implemented. There are a few reports included in the application specification. They are for illustrative purposes and may be modified as well. The methodology to be followed uses conceptual design in the Entity Relationship Model (Chapter 3), followed by a mapping of the ER schema into the relational schema (Chapter 7). The application is broken into a number of tasks and the inputs and outputs are related to the tasks by means of an Information Flow Diagram. Students should use Chapter 12 to understand the overall process of database design used for design of large databases. A design methodology is developed during the discussion of this...
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...| [CATALOG MANAGEMENT PROPOSAL FOR BOYONIKA(handloom industry)-ODISHA] | The Objective of the Project is to design the Boyonika’s Catalogue Management Application which will display the dynamic pages of different textile & handloom products. The application will contain module like Online Information of different products, Employee Directory & address and skills of weavers | TABLE OF CONTENTS * ABOUT THE HANDLOOM INDUSTRY * BOYONIKA * PROPOSAL DETAILS FOR CATALOG MANAGEMENT OF BOYONIKA * Objective of the project * PHASE 1 * BOYANIKA Application * CATALOG MANAGEMENT * OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM * FEATURES OF THE APPLICATION * SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS * SYSTEM DESCRIPTIONS * PROCESS FLOW * ARCHIVING OLD DATA * COST ESTIMATION(approximate data) * TIMEFRAME * PHASE -2 * HARDWARE * PAYMENT GATEWAY PROCESS FLOW * PHASE -3 * CONNECTIVITY * SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS * BENEFITS FROM THE PROJECT * CONCLUSION * REFERENCES ABOUT THE HANDLOOM INDUSTRY The Handloom division assumes an exceptionally significant part in the nation's economy. Actually, that is not all; it is likewise the second biggest industry in India with paramount sections, for example autonomous power weavers, material factories, handlooms and pieces of clothing .Handlooms have been known to India right from the historic ages. The use of fabrics, techniques created to make designer art pieces and expressing...
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...can be found without much hassle. The website offers complete control to the registered user and he can buy movies tickets ,search for movies and provide appropriate feedback. It also provides tons of features such as a shopping cart for multiple movie ticket buying sections for buying dvd title of the movies etc. The user can post his comments about the movies on the website and interact with movie buffs from around the world. 2 Chapter 2 Problem Definition The project is an online movie store where people can buy movies tickets as well as dvd titles. The user will be able to point out any suggestions if present, interact with other users request for movie titles which are not available on the website, post comments on the listed movies subject to the administrator’s consent. The proposed project helps find movies tickets to any thaetres across any location of the multiplex. It also keeps the recent movies posted to the user so that he is aware of any new movies which he might like by emailing him about them and sending out sms’s. There are in general 2 main sections :- 1)Movie Ticket buying 2)Dvd Title Shopping The above sections will be available only to the register user. All the products are classified according to the brand and after selecting the particular brand product...
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