Computers in Shopping Dominik Fitt
Retail Inventory Management Marketing Payroll and Accounting Online Sales
POS System (1973) IBM 3650/3660 (1986) ViewTouch (1993) IT Retail (Post 1990s) OPOS/ JavaPOS (Post 2000s) Cloud-Based System
Problem: POS Security 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers 70 Million Addresses, Phone Numbers, etc 1,797 U.S. Stores breached Whose to Blame? The HUMANS! Not the COMPUTERS!
Online Shopping (E-Commerce) (1971/72) First Recorded E-Commerce Sale (1979) Michael Aldrich “Pioneer of Online Shopping” (1980) Redifon’s Office Revolution (1994) First Secure Online Purchase (1999) Alibaba Group Established
“Birth of E-Commerce” Auction Web Founded By Pierre Omidyar (9/4/1995) First Sale: Broken Laser Pointer 2,000,000 Auctions by January 1997 Cadabra Founded by Jeff Bezos (1995) Began as an Online Bookstore Turned First Profit in 2001
(September 1997) AuctionWeb name changed to eBay. Acquisitions: StubHub Skype Craigslist PayPal
ebay.com Online Auction and Shopping Website Buy and Sell “almost” Anything Security Breach on May 21, 2014 Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) Usernames, Passwords, Phone Numbers, Physical Addresses
(1995) Cadabra Changes Name to Amazon Amazon Creations: Amazon Marketplace Amazon Prime Amazon Fresh Amazon Video
Amazon Consumer Electronics (2007) Amazon Kindle – eBook Reader (2011) Kindle Fire – Tablet (2012) Kindle Fire HD (2013) Kindle Fire HDX (2014) Amazon Fire TV/ Fire TV Stick (2014) Amazon Fire Phone
Future? Privacy: Amazon Prime Air Fall of Retail, Rise of Online Large Online Monopolies
Works Cited Alibaba Group Amazon (Cadabra) E-bay (Auction Web) E-commerce IT Retail Online Shopping Point of Sale (POS) Redifon’s Office Revolution Target Hack ViewTouch