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With buyers willing to pay shipping, DrsFosterSmith.com will sell pet food

The Internet has changed enough that Drs. Foster & Smith believes consumers understand shipping well enough to be willing to pay a surcharge for the convenience of having 40-pound bags of dog food delivered to their doorsteps.

Posted 10/07/2002Kurt PetersPost a comment

CDNow Passes Amazon in Feb. Buyers

CDNow edged out Amazon in February, logging a 28% spike in traffic and more than 1 million unique buyers, according to PCData Online, Reston, Va.. Amazon, which has held the top spot since PC Data began tracking Internet buying last June, had 984,000 unique buyers last month, falling below 1 million for the first time since August 1999. At the same time, amazon.com had considerably more February traffic than CDNow, recording 13.2 million unique...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

Beenz Sez

,Beenz.com creator of beenz web currency, has doubled the number of merchants participating in its two-month-old beenzBack shopping program. Barnes & Noble.com, EddieBauer.com, Pets.com, MarthaStewart.com, Garden.com and HammacherSchlemmer.com are joining more than 100 web sites offering consumers beenz for shopping online. Under the beenzBack program, beenz members earn up to 40 beenz for every dollar they spend online by simply accessing...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

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Pets.com Barks Up IPO Tree

Online pet-supply retailer (www.pets.com) Pets.com says it aims to raise as much as $100 million in an initial public offering. The company plans to use the proceeds for operating losses, working capital, capital expenditures and general corporate expenses, including brand-building. Since opening in February, the company had $619,000 in revenue through Sept. 30, with net losses of nearly $19.4 million. The retailer recently announced plans to...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

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Pet Stores Sock It To The Wild Web

Online pet stores have shown dramatic increases in numbers of shoppers over the past weeks with advertisers from last Sunday's Super Bowl registering a substantial boost in traffic, says Internet research firm PC Data, Reston, Va. The competitiveness of the online pets business and the resulting heavy advertising campaigns have enhanced the awareness of pets shopping online, it says. The pets.com Super Bowl Sunday traffic grew by more than 220%...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

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How Much Is That Merger in the Petstore.com Window?

E-retail's long-forecast category-by-category consolidation continued today with the announcement that Pets.com will acquire Petstore.com. In connection with the transaction, Pets.com will receive a $3 million cash investment and will issue about 5.8 million shares of its common stock and approximately 850,000 shares of a redeemable non-voting, non-convertible series A preferred stock. Subtracting the $3 million investment from Petstore...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

Online rebater rolls

Ebates.com, a shopping portal that gives consumers up to 25% cash back on purchases from various sites, reports it has more than doubled its merchant base. The San Francisco company says it has signed up more than 200 e-merchants in 17 categories. Retailers new to the site include TowerRecords.com, FrenchToast.com, pets.com, FlowerFarm.com and furniture.com. Brooks Brothers, Amazing Baskets, Planet Outdoors, MotorcycleUSA, Golf Shop 2000, Prime...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

Cars.com steers advertising to the Super Bowl

Years after early Internet retailers famously overspent on Super Bowl TV advertising, causing others to avoid the medium, Cars.com is betting that Super Bowl XLII will be the perfect venue for launching its 2008 marketing campaign. Its commercial will be handled by the same creative team at ad agency DDB Chicago that has produced Super Bowl ads for brewer Anheuser Busch.

Posted 10/30/2007Internet RetailerPost a comment