Francois-Henri Pinault Quotes

More and more people are opening online stores and online retail businesses. This market is expanding very, very quickly.

No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men.

I usually shop online.

The malls are getting more and more crowded. Customers will come online and find an easy place to shop.

I shop a lot online... and just the ease of it makes a lot more sense.

Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.

We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.

Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.

Netbot was the first comparison shopping company. We realized comparison shopping can be quite tedious if you are driving from one furniture store to another. On the Internet, you can automatically look at a bunch of different stores and see where can you get the best price on a computer or some such thing, so that was the motivation.

I shop almost exclusively online, from brands like Eloquii, ASOS, Elizabeth Suzann, or Rachel Comey, if one of their straight-size pieces has a little extra room.

E-commerce is not an industry; e-commerce is a tactic.

I think that, in the end, the consumer's going to win on the Internet.

I buy lots of my software over the net from the States.

The biggest ones [online stores] I go back to are Amazon.com and eBay.com because it’s great for music and books... I collect vintage vinyl records.

What, eBay isn't good enough for us?

Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.

Online commerce is being replaced by mobile.

I do use a laptop, but I'm very technophobic. I've never downloaded anything. I've never bought anything on Amazon. I'm really ridiculous. I don't know what it is.

I like vintage stores - all over the world. I have a little collection of my favorite stores here and there. Other than that, I love online shopping.

I try to shop online. All my food, Christmas gifts, everything.