The dramatic improvements in computing power and communication and information technology appear to have been a major force behind this beneficial trend. This improvement in computing power has had an effect in the retail industry area also. The Magazine of Hal-PC User notes that The Internet s pace of adoption eclipses all other technologies that preceded it. Once it was open to the general public, the Internet crossed that line in four years. Traffic on the Internet has been doubling every 100 days.
Retail businesses can no longer ignore the threat of E-commerce.