es, and many magazines and newspaper subscriptions have been losing business to e-commerce since the early 2000S. In addition to its impact on retail sales, e-commerce has affected how people of all ages find dating partners through web sites such as Match.com and Tinder. Additional drivers of e-commerce are massively multiplayer online games, online gambling, and pornography. Combining Online Services with On-Site Stores Online services provide convenience. People can access them at any time of day and from anywhere they have a broadband wireless or wireline Internet connection. Web site owners can also enhance their sites with photographs, video, and links to other locations. www.TechnicalPDF.com However, there are advantages of having both online and physical stores. Amazon is a high-profile example of a business that initially started as an online-only business that has morphed into a combination of online and on-site retail stores. They purchased Whole Foods in 2017 as one way to establish a foothold in brick-and-mortar retailing. One of the advantages of this combination is the availability of a place where customers can pick-up packages ordered online. The ability to pick up packages at brick-and- mortar stores avoids the problem of stolen packages. Families where both people work often don't have anyone at home during daytime hours when merchandise is dropped off and left outside. This is an issue for people that live in apartment buildings as well. Amazon is using its own retail outlets as well as its Whole Foods division, as drop-off points for deliveries. Customers are notified when a package is available at a Whole Foods location or an Amazon Go store near them for pick-up. An individual locker at stores avoids the issue of lost and stolen packages. As a rule these orders do not incur delivery fees. Amazon, which until recently has had an online-only presence, is now opening Amazon Go brick-and-mortar convenience stores with automation that does away with the necessity of cashiers and checkout lines. 