team v7 diapers.com

Team 7

After reading the article about Diapers.com, I was shocked and amazed that a company just selling diapers could make 180 million in revenue in the year 2009. The idea is simple and very direct: Moms don’t have time to go buy diapers, so they do it online and it gets sent to their doors.  What I also found interesting was this statement “Lore has also developed an algorithm for figuring when and how much stock to reorder for a particular item”. He knows his exact re order point for every item that he has.  As shown last week in your class, these problems are not the easiest to solve.  The article goes on to talk about websites like Soap.com and Zappos also. These websites, including diapers.com, are great websites that provide simple goods to people. Think about soap.com, they sell soap online. Who would think that something like soap could sell online? Or even diapers in that matter. Amazon, who is a billion dollar corporation, started selling diapers  a year after diapers.com This company has grown into a huge company in less than 5 years. They have 3 distribution centers and ship all over the United States. This idea that im sure was turned down by many people as , for better lack of the words, stupid, is now a huge corporation that generates  hundreds of millions a dollar a year. People like  Marc Lore and Vinit Bharara just go to show you that a simple idea can be your ticket to fame and fortune