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E-Commerce Is a Boon for Rural America, but It Comes With a Price
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2359835" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/e-commerce-a-boon-for-rural-america-but-it-comes-with-a-price-1473615741" target="_blank"><strong>E-Commerce Is a Boon for Rural America, but It Comes With a Price - Wall Street Journal</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>Providing small-town residents with big-city conveniences is costly for retailers and delivery services </em></p><p></p><p>Vince Bledsoe, a United Parcel Service Inc. delivery man in this remote tiny town, remembers the exact moment he knew that e-commerce had changed the way rural America shops.</p><p></p><p>He was taping up a package a few months ago to one of the town’s 3,000 residents and noticed it contained a bottle of bleach. “It wasn’t lavender [scented] or anything,” he recalls. “It was just a bottle of plain Clorox. ”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2359835, member: 1"] [URL='http://www.wsj.com/articles/e-commerce-a-boon-for-rural-america-but-it-comes-with-a-price-1473615741'][B]E-Commerce Is a Boon for Rural America, but It Comes With a Price - Wall Street Journal[/B][/URL] [B][/B] [I]Providing small-town residents with big-city conveniences is costly for retailers and delivery services [/I] Vince Bledsoe, a United Parcel Service Inc. delivery man in this remote tiny town, remembers the exact moment he knew that e-commerce had changed the way rural America shops. He was taping up a package a few months ago to one of the town’s 3,000 residents and noticed it contained a bottle of bleach. “It wasn’t lavender [scented] or anything,” he recalls. “It was just a bottle of plain Clorox. ” [/QUOTE]
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