It really depends on what the consumer values. Maybe the cost of getting in your car and the time spent walking exceeds that of shipping and handling.

The company should have a physical location and phone number listed on its Web site. You need to have some means of contacting them if you have problems after the fact.

You need to know the reputation of the company you're dealing with.

We are confident that five days is a sufficient time to allow for the blood values to normalize if they are the result of living at a high altitude or dehydration.

We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in property values. We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in economic activity due to sexually oriented businesses.

There have always been differences, but from time to time they were put aside for shared values: nuclear disarmament, euphoria over the end of the Cold War, the fight against terrorism, things that pushed everything else into the shadows. But in the periods of thaw, Russia and the U.S. didn't create any stable mechanisms to solve problems.