Trump seemed to threaten retail politics, too.
Initially, it failed at that pretty spectacularly with early Android phones, and the Google Play devices store, while more successful, hasn't threatened retail or traditional sales channels into obscurity or irrelevance.
Not surprisingly, Winn feels strongly that such an arrangement requires a hybrid retail operation, such as Value America, to act as the conduit in order not to threaten traditional retail outfits.
This growing number threatens incumbent retail banks as a new wave of digital banking start-ups has emerged.
This threatens to undermine retail spending, one of the few pockets of strength in the economy.
While that explains the numbers, it doesn't really address the underlying issue -- the growing importance of e-books, which are generally seen as threatening traditional brick-and-mortar retail sales.
The conservative group best known for threatening to boycott JC Penney when the retail chain hired Ellen DeGeneres as its spokeswoman is branching out.
The group is perhaps best known, however, for threatening to boycott JCPenney, after the retail group hired Ellen DeGeneres, who is openly gay, as its spokeswoman.
There was further bad news for the retail sector on Tuesday as clothing retailer Austin Reed also collapsed into administration, threatening more than 1,000 jobs.
In this climate with retail bookstores threatened, just to get your books out there has been frustrating.
