But that was just one of the three commerce styles.
Outside of traditional e-commerce style businesses, there remains very few Italian startups compared to the rest of Europe's major countries.
"Many merchants have people on their team who've been in their roles 20+ years," says Shelley Kohan, retail fellow at RetailNext, an IoT integrated platform that brings e-commerce style shopper analytics to brick-and-mortar retailers.
State-owned enterprises in China have taken the best of the economy for themselves, "leaving the private sector drinking the soup while the state enterprises are eating the meat," Cai Hua, the vice director of a chamber-of-commerce-style organization in Zhejiang Province, said in an interview.
To note, Fab is continuing to evolve, with flash sales now being de-emphasized at Fab.com in favor of a more social-commerce-style follower model.
Styles and structures are noted, as well as the shifting notions of government, religion, commerce and life styles creating the needs and forms of the buildings and their settings, the emerging cities.
Other companies have applied e-commerce to street style.
These very wealthy friends of the Bush family, one even nicknamed "Mr. Swift Boat," do some needlessly heavy-handed advocacy for the greatness of commerce and Texas-style capitalism.
Testimony was peppered with all the colorful details of high-stakes commerce, 1990s-Russian-style: huge tabs for mistresses, chartered private jets and villas on the Côte d'Azur.
Whereas New York-listed Alibaba is best known for online commerce and the outgoing style of its high-profile chairman, Jack Ma, Tencent is listed in Hong Kong, the company is less well known outside of China, and is led by a lower key chairman with an engineering background.
