Europe has an excellent example of a store chain where ELECTRONIC COMMERCE is King. It is called Shecklers (www.schlecker.com) . It is referred to as a “drug store” (pharmacies here are just pharmacies….no shoe polish, potato chips, etc). So Shecklers is a variety store, dollar store, convenience, you get the idea.

Last BLOG I wrote about the French Riviera I focused on the high tech park in Sophia-Antipolis. This time I will introduce the Principality of Monaco. It is tiny: just 430 acres, or less than a square mile in size. Only about 5,000 of its roughly 30,000 residents are Monégasque citizens; the rest are French, Italian, and other foreigners who have come to Monaco for work, fun, and tax breaks.

While most of us are familiar with all the aspects of electronic commerce as it exists in North America (EDI, XML, ANSI, etc), we sometimes think the rest of the World is different and maybe not as sophisticated. I'm not going to try and cover the whole World (today anyway), but just my little niche: the French Riviera (where I happen to live).