Topic and rationale:
The wine industry has faced many legal stumbling blocks as it evolves with consumer’s preferences of buying wine on-line. The shipment of interstate wine is finally coming to terms with the consumer market, through compliant solutions and by changing the legal environment in which it operates. Many companies are making their services available to facilitate the wine industry’s needs to sale wine through E-commerce channels. This journey has been hard fought and contains a rich history of legal battles. Small wineries are seeing relief from having to sell their product through wholesalers, who take a substantial markup before a bottle of wine reaches the customer’s hands. Now that wineries have direct to consumer channels to sale their product, they are paying catch up to the technology age. This research paper will focus on the history of direct to consumer hurdles and the importance of building consumer relationships through on-line channels, such as social media and retailer websites.
Research Question: How is E-commerce changing the way the wine industry conducts business in America?
Greg Bensinger is the chief executive of wine.com. Wine.com is a pioneer of wine E-commerce and has sold wine on-line since 1998. In this article, Besinger explains the regulations and shipping limitations that have caused E-commerce companies to stumble in the past. This article will be great to use as a primary source and it also mentions situations and other companies to explore in further research. Some key terms from this article that can be further searched are, “wine-shipping rules/ or regulations”, “wine.com”, “history of online wine market”. This article also refers to the advocacy group Free the Grapes. This advoca...
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... take value creation strategies into their own hands by creating an on-line marketing campaign to create buzz around their product in a micro-blogging environment. This article will be used in the final research paper to analyze how current consumer E-commerce purchasing decisions are made and how this is affecting the wine industry.
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Amazon.com operates in the Online Retail Industry. The sector is one of the fastest growing globally and is outperforming the ordinary retail marketplace. It was created after 1995 and it was only the Internet that made it possible for such an industry not only to be established but to become one of the most flourishing sectors in the business environment. What is interesting is that Amazon.com, together with eBay is the pioneer in the field. Both companies were launched in 1995 and are still extremely successful. The creation of e-mail in 1996 had a huge impact on the development of online retail by introducing a fast and easy way to communicate with customers. For this two-year period Internet usage doubled annually, thus, allowing for the expansion of the industry. Google is launched a year later, in 1998, only to become the most used search engine in the world and an essential partner for the online retailers by helping them tailor their websites to customer’s personal preferences and by advertising. After that, more and more people see the opportunity in the growing industry and enter it. By 2001 there are more than 513 million Internet users globally, which calls for action in terms of creating regulations and laws to protect the users and personal property. In 2003, Apple launches iTunes, and provides a platform for low-cost digital downloads. Another major change is the appearance of social media from 2004, which is one of the biggest influencer on the state of the industry. With the launch of iPhone in 2007, this trend strengthens as people get to enjoy the Internet anywhere they want to. From then on, technological advancements have made it extremely easy and fun to shop online, making it ...
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McDaniel, C., & Gates, R. (2006). Marketing research (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.