This is a further post for our loose series on “Shopping Systems of the Future”.
While the next e-commerce generation has long been hoping for new and more sales oriented shopping systems, in the classical warehouse oriented e-commerce world, Amazon is still the ultimate role model for online trade.
It should be then good news now for online and catalog-based shops. Amazon is currently testing a new webstore which will offer many of the Amazon shop functionalities to smaller merchants:
The current shop systems from Amazon and similar marketplaces are slowly but surely reaching the limits of their conceptional extendibility and have therefore (according to our estimates) a rather short half-life. There is also the valid hope that via Magento and similar efforts, a new generation of solutions will rise over the next years offering e-commerce companies the same potential which nowadays still require custom development efforts.
How will (or must) shopping solutions look like in the next 5 to 10 years?
A few related posts related to this question:
- Extreme Retailing: Change Is Coming to Online Shopping
- Swiss E-commerce Study: Leading Shops Prefer Custom Built Systems
- TheBakery: How Intershop Wants To Lead the Trade Revolution
- Shopping Systems with a Future: Product Clouds on the Horizon?
- The Shopping System of the Future – Starring: Google, Paypal and Amazon
Originally posted in German by Jochen Krisch, adapted for excitingcommerce.com by Jason Soo.
