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DATA MINE Aug. 23, 1999 E-Commerce Eats into Traditional Commerce With less than 10% of total online sales in 2002 actually being incremental (sales that wouldn't have happened otherwise), E-commerce sales will grow at the expense of traditional sales. That means traditional merchants have even more reason to move now to protect their turf. 1999 Only 6%, or $720 million, of the expected $11.9 billion in E-commerce sales will be sales that wouldn't have happened otherwise. 2002 Only 6.5%, or $3 billion of the expected $41 billion in total online sales will be incremental. DATA: Jupiter Communications _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					MORE NUGGETS Think Web, Think AOL AOL has a commanding lead of mind share Online Brokers Fail to Satisfy The companies weren't very good at customer service B2B Is Where the Action Is Business-to-business E-commerce is set to explode The Mother Lode Collected nuggets from Data Mine