Friday, May 31, 2013

Small businesses identify serious problems, the Internet sales tax legislation

Small business online today launched a major effort to combat misleading claims that is conducive to fair market laws. eMainStreet Union announced that they are collecting signatures for their letter to the House Judiciary Committee against the MFA.

I believe these small online business, the real main street mortar retailers Internet Retailer real street not in conflict, but in fact allies. eMainStreet that said: "In 2012, a large retailer's online sales accounted for 83% or more. their online market share continues to increase, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the way, they will accelerate the growth of the retail oligarchs." This is exactly what happens in physical retail space.

Here are some of the take-always quoted from the letter eMainStreet:

Audit risk is small online retailers will increase 4,500%. Not only have 45 new national audit institutions, but they also include a relatively small pool, so the proportion of this type of audit objectives increases the likelihood of repeatedly been audited.
As online businesses grow, they will expand and build on relations with other countries, started using national service, and voluntarily collect sales tax, and in these countries benefited from the actual representation and due process.
"Showrooming" customers will visit the store test products work in two ways - it affects the online and physical retailers. 2013 January report from PricewaterhouseCoopers showed that only 2% of the 10,000 consumer survey research products in stores and online shopping. However, 23% do the opposite and go in a store before buying online research.
There is a significant compliance driven and "free software" laws in the first year, integration, compliance and business ranging from $ 20,000 to $ 300,000 for the financial burden of the cost of remittances. Many eMainStreet threshold estimated at more than $ 1 million in compliance costs would exceed its entire annual profit members. Forced layoffs, in some cases, businesses shuttered.

Fair market may spend about 220,000 jobs.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

All eyes on Amazon as Brazil's Saraiva looks to sell online unit

SAO PAULO, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Brazil's biggest bookstore chain, Saraiva, is trying to sell its online business, a move that could pave the way for Amazon's debut in Latin America's fastest growing e-commerce market, industry sources said.

Saraiva is widely seen as one of the main hurdles facing Amazon, the online retailer, as it prepares to set up shop in Brazil, a challenging market of 200 million people known for its tax and logistic complexities.

The Sao Paulo-based bookseller wants to sell its e-commerce platform and focus on its chain of over 100 stores and publishing businesses, where margins are higher, three industry executives told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

"Saraiva is trying to sell its online operations. They have offered it to some retailers," said one of the sources.

"Why would this be interesting for Amazon? Amazon's main challenge will initially be overcoming the obstacle of the publishing companies. By buying Saraiva it shortens that distance dramatically," the same source said.

Amazon spokesman Craig Berman declined to comment, as did a spokeswoman for Saraiva.

A second source said Saraiva has been preparing to spin off its online retail business for some time to focus on its publishing operations and bookstores, where it also sells CDs and DVDs.

"Their assets in terms of relationships with publishers and distributors could be important for Amazon," the source said.

Amazon is laying the ground to land in Brazil, a $12 billion e-commerce market where still low Internet penetration and a swelling middle class should provide sustainable business growth for years to come.

Reuters reported in June that the Seattle-based company was planning to open a digital bookstore in Brazil and start selling its Kindle e-reader by the end of 2012. An online approach would allow Amazon to avoid logistics hazards that could jeopardize a full-scale retail operation.

Saraiva has Brazil's biggest ebook catalog with 12,000 titles in Portuguese, yielding around $250,000 a month in revenue. Though ebooks account for just a fraction of Saraiva's Internet business -- it also offers DVDs, electronics and other consumer goods online -- the company says digital book sales are starting to grow at a faster pace.

One person familiar with Amazon's strategy for Brazil told Reuters that Saraiva approached the U.S. retailer in the past, but dismissed media reports of ongoing talks as market speculation. The source said Amazon is sticking to its original plan of focusing on organic growth in foreign markets.

DOORS OPEN

Even if Amazon doesn't end up buying Saraiva's online business, the dismembering of Brazil's biggest bookstore could help by weakening its top local competitor.

Earlier this year Saraiva was reportedly pressuring Brazilian publishers not to sign-up with Amazon in an attempt to protect its market leadership, which helped it pull in 731 million reais ($362 million) in net revenue in the first half of 2012.

Saraiva relies heavily on its network of 102 stores across Brazil. Products sold online account for just one-third of the company's retail business and shrank 6.4 percent in the second quarter of 2012 compared to the same period a year earlier.

"Saraiva's online business is not generating the necessary profits," said a third executive familiar with the company's management. "They recently decided to scale down their e-commerce sales in order to maintain profits. And that means the business is not interesting."

Saraiva is looking to unload its online business because of small margins and aggressive p rice competition from bigger e-commerce players such as B2W, which controls Bra zil's top platforms, Submarino and Americanas.com.

Earlier this month, Saraiva signaled it was open to entertaining offers following media reports that it was in talks with Amazon.

The company "is always attentive and willing to evaluate business opportunities of any other nature that arise and that may be of interest to its shareholders," Saraiva said in a securities filing.

Some analysts question the potential value of a Saraiva deal for Amazon, arguing that the U.S. company's strong branding would allow it to grow organically and rapidly seize a big chunk of the Brazilian market.

"The process of integrating Saraiva's operations could pose risks for Amazon. It would be better for them to start from scratch," said Caue de Campos Pinheiro, a retail analyst with SLW Corretora in Sao Paulo.

Others, however, say an acquisition would help Amazon safely navigate the Brazilian market, where a mix of steep taxes and poor infrastructure make it a difficult place to do business.

"They would have a head start," said Jordan Rohan, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus in New York. "And they would have access to a management team with local knowledge."

Hurricane Sandy wallops Internet commerce just as hard

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - From Fab.com to Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc, e-commerce companies scrambled on Tuesday to get goods to buyers on time after Hurricane Sandy tore a swathe of destruction across the U.S. northeast.

The storm -- which severed power to warehouses and offices, ripped up rails and roads and shuttered airports -- challenged the notion that Internet retailers might benefit from problems at store chains exposed to the elements.

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Fab.com, a fast-growing design e-commerce start-up based in New York City, handled unusually strong volumes on Monday as people hunkered down at home. Then the problems began.

Fab operates out of two warehouses in hard-hit New Jersey, one self-owned and another run by warehouse company Dotcom Distribution. With both lacking power as of mid-afternoon, no packages were making it out the door on Tuesday.

"The biggest impact to us right now is that our warehouses have no power," said Jason Goldberg, founder and chief executive of Fab.com. "We're doing everything humanly possible to send packages as quickly as possible."

Retailers from New York to Washington are starting to re-open and re-staff in the aftermath of Monday's destruction. But many of Fab.com's fellow Internet retailers were still struggling to fill orders, handle customer service and keep websites running ahead of the crucial holiday season.

Those efforts are geared at ensuring buyers do not wait too long for their products -- and averting a damaging backlash against their sites and reputation.

Amazon.com warned merchants on Tuesday that use its shipping service, Fulfillment by Amazon, that Sandy might impact the handling of orders. Third-party sellers on its marketplace that handle their own shipping were instructed to contact shoppers directly about their orders.

It advised them to temporarily deactivate online listings should they be unable to meet usual shipping standards.

"Because the Internet is an opaque purchasing method, customers don't always understand where their product is coming from or if they are going to be affected," said Eric Heller, head of Marketplace Ignition, which helps online retailers sell through websites such as Amazon.com. "We're encouraging sellers to proactively reach out to buyers that may be affected."

RECOVERY PLANS

EBay pursued a similar tactic, emailing shoppers who purchased items from merchants that may have been impacted by the storm in recent days, asking for patience. It recommended that affected eBay Store-subscribers put their pages in "vacation mode" to control purchasing and show shoppers that their operation has been temporarily disrupted, a spokeswoman said.

And Gilt Groupe, which runs a popular high-end fashion website, expects delivery times to take one to three days longer than normal, said Kevin Ryan, founder and CEO of the company.

Beyond logistics tangles, loss of power and telecommunications have hurt Internet firms that rely on telephone and Web-based customer service in the absence of store staff.

UPDATE: NYSE Traders Will Experience Spotty Cell Phone, Wireless Internet Service

UPDATE: NYSE CEO Duncan Niederauer was just talking on CNBC from the floor of the exchange.

Niederauer told CNBC reporter Bob Pisani that the NYSE is taking measures to mitigate the phone and internet service issues:

Cell phone usage is pretty spotty for all of us down here in lower Manhattan right now. Also, some of the internet connections are kind of slow, so if people use that for some of their data feeds, that's slow.

So, we've actually been giving each of the brokers one of our own lines so they can get incoming and make outgoing calls if they have a phone issue.

Some people's Blackberrys aren't working. Depending on your internet service provider, you've got internet. So, I think we're trying to cover them with as much phone and data help as we can to help them run their business from down here.

Then, I'll give you guys another update after the opening.

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ORIGINAL: Bloomberg TV reporter Alix Steel was just down at the NYSE, and she said that although the floor is open today, traders will still face a nasty inconvenience left over from Hurricane Sandy:

I was just inside the New York Stock Exchange. Traders are trickling in from everywhere from Long Island to New Jersey.

But the real problem is right now there is no Verizon service or wifi in the exchange. The exchange itself is up and running, but the guys are basically trading blind. Their Bloomberg terminals are down. They don't have internet access. One trader told me there's not going to be that much action going on down on the floor today.

Steel noted, however, that this is the last day of the month, and traders are saying there should be some volatility as big funds rebalance their portfolios and log monthly gains (or losses).

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