Referring to Wal-Mart’s upcoming remake of its Web site, one analyst said it will give retailing a “jolt.” Another said it will “change Internet retailing.” The effects will probably resound beyond traditional consumer retailing.
“The power to navigate the world at the click of a mouse is a force that is transforming our lives like none before,” wrote the editors of Business Week (Oct. 4, 1999). A few paragraphs later, they added that “Anyone with a computer is a citizen of the world and a richer world at that.”