At the moment Amazon has only begun to marry its talents in computerized shopping to traditional retailing (example: You can order something on Amazon and pick it up at Circuit City).
(Think robots, computerized shopping, bioengineering, drones, manufacturing and scientific research, for starters).
A St . Louispatent broker is suing Yahoo over a "method of effecting commerce in a networked computer environment in a computerized system" -- that is, shopping online.
After all, a computerized lathe controller on a shop floor probably doesn't need much of an interface.
The world's biggest diamond traders said today that they expect to set up a computerized global registry before the Christmas shopping season that will help curb the sale of gems used to finance wars in Africa.
Stuffed with computerized cutting and gluing tools, the shop produces Menards' own lines of steel doors, Formica countertops, dog houses and picnic tables and other manufactured items that now make up a healthy portion of the chain's sales and profits.
Mr. Walters, the White House antidrug official, said his office intended to press more states to adopt computerized monitoring programs that help reduce doctor shopping by tracking the identities of those who write prescriptions and those who receive them; fewer than half the states now have such programs.
In a high-tech automotive environment, she added, what is needed is a shop focused on the heavily computerized car and the driver who must adjust to it.
Barry Tech has undergone a $27 million renovation, including a $50,000 computerized framing machine for auto-body work; a paint shop that can mix 60,000 colors; and three new hair salons.
Later, blueprints were computerized, but Holland still had to run around the shop floor to find a terminal.
After a 14-month renovation, there are polished floors, posh cafes, computerized ticket sales and even a glossy, well-lit underground shopping mall, patrolled by the police and private security guards who politely but firmly expel vagrants.
