Indeed precision is already possible on the Internet, given the right combination of marketing and technology.Streamline, a direct shopping firm based near Boston, is launching just such a system with the help of Intel.
Direct shopping was the least these websites were about.
Tecca combines comprehensive product information, pricing, and knowledge, with direct shopping access to the top seller-rated online electronics retailers in a single digital marketplace.
And it's a home for shopping and information gathering, too, thanks to Bixby intelligence features that use image recognition to serve up direct shopping links, or to translate signage on the fly.
It has been working on ways of improving its own direct shopping links in areas like search, bringing its platform (and its advertising) a little closer to how Amazon does business.
SPI is setting up direct shop in the U.S., which means that rather than being distributed and marketed by a fabulous company like William Grant & Sons, as it has for the past four years, it will be all in-house.
The rise of "click and collect", where customers pick up parcels direct from shops, is also eating into its business.
The move by Mr Jones follows Shop Direct, the home shopping group, acquiring Woolworths to run it as an online-only brand in early 2009.
Printing on everything that comes from the store (letterhead, business cards, direct mail, shopping bags and wrapping paper, promotional items, print advertising).
Often it is directed at shops or warehouses owned by ethnic Chinese.
