Currently Debenhams has about 1000 products on Amazon and just 100 on eBay. If these operating models prove to be a success we can expect to see more of Debenhams products moving to eBay and Amazon, and more High Street stores joining them.

This will likely prove to be bad news for many independent traders and SMEs on eBay who make a living importing and selling clothes online. No doubt we will hear the good news that Debenhams is performing well, but not the news than many more small businesses will start to struggle.

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Clothes and electrical stores are suffering the most, as sign that consumers are cutting back on non-essentials during the credit crunch. Retailers are expecting to see much stronger growth again next year, and also in he run up to Christmas. When times are hard consumers ofter cut back on spending throughout the year so that they can have an extra special Christmas.

One theory is that good weather resulted in many would be Internet shoppers going into to town to browse instead. Looks like we could be in for a wet autumn, so online retailers should be pleased.

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