Or can online retailers find ways to make significant sustainable profits?
With such knowledge and given that 17,000 new products compete for space every year, retailers have found another source of profits.
Many retailers find they must offer bigger discounts to keep people buying.
But the retailers found a way to fight back.
Even national retailers have found it hard to compete for the best locations against the giant media companies.
But rather than increase prices, the nation's big retailers are finding other ways to get the money for those wage gains.
Over all, retailers may find the blows softened by earlier experience.
In addition to reducing returns, retailers have found another benefit.
In so doing, retailers can find answers to such questions as:
The retailers found that they could make good margins while giving good value.