Why doesn Diamond take wholesale orders over the web (using a cart)?
We’re working on that. I don’t know whether we’ll actually have a cart but we’ll have something similar. We expect to have that feature done by, I hate putting timetables on our IT department, but I would say by mid-2001(link here to Diamond website). This isn’t just upload/download, but actually ordering by product? Yes and our folks are working on that enhancement as we speak. It’s complicated, but once you have the system in place we will have a lot of flexibility to do a lot of things.Why then, instead of now, or some point in the past? We were not in a position to make it happen. We welcome it and it should be a boon for us on a lot of levels. It will cut down on human error and make things more efficient, but we did not have the ability to do it. We had to prioritize things. We have a very good IT group, but they can only do so much at one time. We’ve had to deal with Y2K, we’ve had some business acquisitions, we had to make some changes with the Diamond UK computer system and al
