E-Commerce Streamlines Sales Tracking  By Wayne Rash  |  Posted
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against the madness of those Wal-Marts that refuse to include
crowd control in their shopping plans, the cost of gas required
to get to the madness, and the fact that you can't park within a
half mile of the mall and have to fight with insane shoppers
once you're there.  The next important factor is that e-commerce
is trackable. Merchants know exactly what their sales are and
can report those sales in real time. Likewise, since virtually
all online sales are made using credit cards, there's a second
level of tracking that allows credit card processors to report
on the number and value of transactions. So we know almost
immediately just how well sales are doing, what consumers are
buying and where they're buying.  Adding to the economic
strength of e-commerce is that merchants have put a wide variety
of tools in place to encourage shopping. Amazon's Wish List is a
good example of how this w