Thursday, May 10, 2007

Last Wikipedia Edit for Forever 21

For this last edit I decided to only add two additional lines of information. The Forever 21 article is already well developed and I did not want to enter lots of useless information just to make the article longer. I ended up adding, "Also, to compete with competitors, the website for Forever 21 contains the online shopping feature. Customers can purchase additional items that may or may not be found in the physical stores." I thought this would be good to add because it never before mentioned that you can order things online. Most companies have this feature, but some still do not. I thought it would not hurt to mention that Forever 21 is one of those participating companies. If someone was to read the Wikipedia article without going to the website after they may not have known that you can order online also because the article discussed the development of the physical store and not its switch to the Internet. This is not exactly an essential contribution to the Wikipedia article, but I thought it was something extra that may be helpful to people who read this article. Another reason why I added those things was because when I used to work at Forever 21 we always had so many people come in the store and ask where they could find the white dress with pink polka dots, for example, that they saw on the website. Several times we had to explain that just because they saw it on the website does not mean that it will be found in the stores. This is because some items are found solely on the website or only sold in stores in particular regions of the country, not necessarily at your local Forever 21. So although this was not a huge addition to the article, I feel that it may still be helpful for some people.

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