Extended cable-networks, digital telephone networks, satellite-based infrastructures, well penetrated P.C.'s and television infrastructures, experienced data gathering about consumers - all of them together already appeared to be a sufficient basis to develop the technical and, managerial means for teleshopping. Can it be presumed that one or more of the involdved players will succeed in offering steady teleshopping services ? And in the end, can teleshopping alter current transport patterns of consumers for shopping ? Initiatives for teleshopping services are expected. Not from obvious leading parties, but from other players. Some consumers will be willing to make use of teleshopping services, for some products. Future changes, substantially enough to affect spatial shopping patterns, both in urban areas as at the countryside, are expected.
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