A profile of U.S. home internet users and online shoppers : implications for retailers and e-tailers / Sandra McKay, Uday Tate and Mary Blalock

Both worldwide and within the U.S., Internet access increased dramatically between 1998 and 1999 and is projected to continue to rise at alarming rates. Currently, U.S. households with home Internet access are more likely to be white, located in urban areas, and have higher income and educational le...

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Main Authors: McKay, Sandra, Tate, Uday, Blalock, Mary
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business and Management ; UiTM Press 2002
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spelling uitm-114352016-11-30T05:30:07Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11435/ A profile of U.S. home internet users and online shoppers : implications for retailers and e-tailers / Sandra McKay, Uday Tate and Mary Blalock McKay, Sandra Tate, Uday Blalock, Mary Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling Computer networks. Electronic information resources. Including the Internet Electronic commerce United States Both worldwide and within the U.S., Internet access increased dramatically between 1998 and 1999 and is projected to continue to rise at alarming rates. Currently, U.S. households with home Internet access are more likely to be white, located in urban areas, and have higher income and educational levels than those without home access. However, the Internet population is becoming more mainstream. Last year, women, seniors, and people with moderate incomes and educational levels increasingly came online. Online shopping exploded in 1999, posting end-of-year total sales of $20.2 billion. Implications of these emerging trends for retailers and e-tailers are examined in the paper. Faculty of Business and Management ; UiTM Press 2002 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11435/1/AJ_SANDRA%20MCKAY%20JIBE%2002.pdf McKay, Sandra and Tate, Uday and Blalock, Mary (2002) A profile of U.S. home internet users and online shoppers : implications for retailers and e-tailers / Sandra McKay, Uday Tate and Mary Blalock. Journal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship (JIBE), 9 (1). pp. 183-202. ISSN 0128-7494 https://jibe.uitm.edu.my/
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topic Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling
Computer networks. Electronic information resources. Including the Internet
Electronic commerce
United States
spellingShingle Consumer behavior. Consumers' preferences. Consumer research. Including consumer profiling
Computer networks. Electronic information resources. Including the Internet
Electronic commerce
United States
McKay, Sandra
Tate, Uday
Blalock, Mary
A profile of U.S. home internet users and online shoppers : implications for retailers and e-tailers / Sandra McKay, Uday Tate and Mary Blalock
description Both worldwide and within the U.S., Internet access increased dramatically between 1998 and 1999 and is projected to continue to rise at alarming rates. Currently, U.S. households with home Internet access are more likely to be white, located in urban areas, and have higher income and educational levels than those without home access. However, the Internet population is becoming more mainstream. Last year, women, seniors, and people with moderate incomes and educational levels increasingly came online. Online shopping exploded in 1999, posting end-of-year total sales of $20.2 billion. Implications of these emerging trends for retailers and e-tailers are examined in the paper.
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author McKay, Sandra
Tate, Uday
Blalock, Mary
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title A profile of U.S. home internet users and online shoppers : implications for retailers and e-tailers / Sandra McKay, Uday Tate and Mary Blalock
title_short A profile of U.S. home internet users and online shoppers : implications for retailers and e-tailers / Sandra McKay, Uday Tate and Mary Blalock
title_full A profile of U.S. home internet users and online shoppers : implications for retailers and e-tailers / Sandra McKay, Uday Tate and Mary Blalock
title_fullStr A profile of U.S. home internet users and online shoppers : implications for retailers and e-tailers / Sandra McKay, Uday Tate and Mary Blalock
title_full_unstemmed A profile of U.S. home internet users and online shoppers : implications for retailers and e-tailers / Sandra McKay, Uday Tate and Mary Blalock
title_sort profile of u.s. home internet users and online shoppers : implications for retailers and e-tailers / sandra mckay, uday tate and mary blalock
publisher Faculty of Business and Management ; UiTM Press
publishDate 2002
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11435/
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