You are welcome to visit www.peapod.com and www.netgrocer.com websites for information about electronic grocery shopping. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the online grocers? Would you be willing to shop there? In addition to answering these questions, and explaining your answers, you are welcome to share anything else you found interesting.

• Case ?Identify critical success factors of e-commerce operations management.

• SLP ?Compare and contrast e-commerce operations management to traditional operations management.

• Discussion ?Apply e-commerce management to one aspect of operations management in an organizational context.

Please turn in a paper of one to two pages (page counting does not include cover and reference list) discussing the following questions,

1.What are the advantages and disadvantages of selling books and goods over the internet?

2. If books can be downloaded online, how will Amazon's business change?

3. What do traditional stores have to gain from setting up an e-commerce side to complement their retail stores?