E-commerce is still in version 1.0, but people don’t tend realize what they are looking for until it is there. Dibsie is in a good place to be the one to build it. The Economist did an interesting piece this week on the huge opportunity to innovate within the rapidly growing retail/eCommerce space. It is time to finally get it right.
“Amazon’s sales in the past year were $48 billion, compared with Macy’s $26 billion. Last year online sales in America reached $188 billion, about 8% of total retail sales. They are forecast to reach $270 billion by 2015.”
(source: The Economist)