The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Support mergeKeep and improve and make more clear. This article seems to deal with electronic (online) transactions. Retail expressly says it is about in-person transactions only. This could be a section in Retail, which is now very confused. It starts out saying it is only about shops, etc. and a couple of sentences later adds online retail (which seems to be the topic of this article.) Steve Dufour (talk) 16:05, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The current text reads like original synthesis if not entirely original research. The actual subject of the piece seems to be online retailing. There does seem to be some vaporing and general bamboozlement going on here, and the overall tone is let's make money fast on the Internet:
B2C e-commerce went through some tough times, particularly after the technology-heavy Nasdaq crumbled in 2000. In the ensuing dotcom carnage, hundreds of e-commerce sites shut their virtual doors and some experts predicted years of struggle for online retail ventures. Since then, however, shoppers have continued to flock to the web in increasing numbers. In fact, North American consumers adopted e-commerce so much that despite growing fears about identity theft, they spent $172 billion shopping online in 2005, up from $38.8 billion in 2000.
By 2010, consumers are expected to spend $329 billion each year online, according to Forrester Research. What’s more, the percentage of U.S. households shopping online is expected to grow from 39 percent this year to 48 percent in 2010. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003!16:23, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete; Yes, it's one of the worst articles on Wikipedia. I suggest that any pearls of wisdom contained within the text (if there are any) should be moved to Retail, as suggested, and the article be deleted. nagualdesign (talk) 15:48, 23 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.