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Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture
Frei, Frances X.; Ely, Robin J.; Winig, LauraCase HBS-610015-EService and Operations ManagementOn July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a privately-held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft-line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its Board of Directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies. Amazon had been courting Zappos since 2005, hoping a merger would enable Amazon to expand and strengthen its market share in soft-line retail categories. While Amazon's interest in...Starting at €8.20