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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group

• Amazon (Cadabra)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com

• E-bay (Auction Web)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay

• E-commercehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-commerce

• IT Retailhttp://itretail.com/about-us/

• Online Shoppinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shopping

• Point of Sale (POS)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale#Modern_software_.28post-1990s.29

• Redifon’s Office Revolutionhttp://www.aldricharchive.com/downloads/REDIFONOfficeRevolution.pdf

• Target Hack 2013http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-03-13/target-missed-alarms-in-epic-hack-of-credit-card-data#p1

• ViewTouchhttp://www.viewtouch.com/