Retail Chronicles Issue 4 (1 to 15 October)
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07<br />
1995<br />
eCom Pioneers: Amazon is<br />
established and sells its first<br />
book.<br />
2007<br />
The drawn of social media:<br />
Facebook reaches 100,000<br />
business pages, allowing<br />
companies <strong>to</strong> attract potential<br />
cus<strong>to</strong>mers and tell about<br />
themselves. These started as<br />
group pages, but a new concept<br />
called company pages is planned.<br />
2013<br />
New Technologies emerge <strong>to</strong> help<br />
retailers collect data: Apple introduces<br />
iBeacon technology, for example, which<br />
can track the presence of a nearby<br />
shopper’s iPhone.