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DATA MINE June 17, 1999 Mom-and-Pop Online Stores: A Thing of the Past? If you think the Web levels the playing field for mom-and-pop stores to compete against the national retailers, think again. While the E-commerce pie is going to get bigger, the slice belonging to local stores will shrink in the coming years. 1998 Total E-commerce market: $7.8 Billion Local retailers: $680 million Percent of the market: 9% 2003 Total E-Commerce market: $108 billion Local retailers: $6 billion Percent of the market: 6% Data: Forrester Research _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					MORE NUGGETS High Phone Costs Thwart Netizens Europe's sky-high local telephone rates drive up the cost of logging on. Rating Online Brokers Which firms execute trades the fastest? Does the Boss "Get It"? North American bosses feel much more comfortable with the Internet than chiefs from other regions. The Country Gets Wired Nearly 60 million U.S. households are expected to have Internet access by 2003. A Child's Net Kids and teens are expected to account for $1.3 billion in E-commerce in 2002. The Mother Lode A collection of items from the Data Mine