Another Pet Store Sells Out
from the wait,-wasn't-the-internet-supposed-to-revolutionize-pet-stores? dept
So, it was only yesterday that brick-and-mortar backed Petsmart bought the Pets.com domain name. Today, we find out that the one major remaining online pet store, Petopia, sold all its assets to Petco, another brick-and-mortar pet store, with whom it had been associated for the past year and a half. I guess, despite all the hype about how pet stores were going to be revolutionized on the web, no one actually thought to check with real live customers who are happy with their brick and mortar options. It’s only been a year and a half since Petopia claimed they were going to win the online pet market simply because they’d raised more money.
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just a comment from someone who’s used pets.com… my purchasing strategy was to buy large quantities of food and cat litter whenever they did one of their sales (usually $10 off some min purchase). The one time I purchased toys / unfamiliar products, I received two cat toys that didn’t work for me (1) was for dogs and for some stupid reason marketed to cats and the second (2) was poor quality and fell apart the same day I gave it to my cat. I loved the mail-order 20 lbs of food thing but I also just need to go to a store to get the extras…