The concept of supply chain management is to easily order from the collection and historical information and apply this information to establish buying standards. The use of the Internet will effect the grocery industry. Individuals with the use of a computer can order groceries at home, this creates a two edge sword. To the industry as a whole, efficiency will increase by reduced labor expense, building expense, and other overhead expenses will be reduced. The Internet in the future, will effect this industry by giving the consumer value added by reducing time spent going to the store, and reduced cost to the industry by not having the stores.
Lets take a look at the porn industry.
The porn industry on the internet is defined as any site that contains naked people, or sexual acts. In 1999 there were over 43 million sites that that would fall into this definition. There could be 43 million different people submitting these sites to the internet servers. One site alone has 125,000 unique visitors dailey. The porn industry is huge on the internet and only getting larger.