21.   Both online retailers and analysts are now struggling to explain how the unprecedented domestic attacks will affect consumer behavior and spending over the holidays.

22.   Both shippers have tried to iron out potential problems by working more closely with online retailers, helping them to manage orders and predict growth.

23.   A privately held version of the spectacularly unsuccessful Priceline.com online retailer, the club was to have lured millions of customers with the lowest possible gasoline and grocery prices.

24.   A number of online retailers, including Amazon, offered free shipping for much of the holiday season, at least for larger orders.

25.   A Web shopping section will provide additional links to online retailers.

26.   After that, of course, investors started to believe that every online retailer in every category could become Amazonian in scale.

27.   All of the sites omitted small online retailers.

28.   Brick-and-mortar companies, under pressure from online retailers with aggressive advertising strategies, turned to the Internet last year.

29.   But Amazon has spent too much time and too much money to establish itself as the online retailer of choice to even consider an outpost in the local mall.

30.   But consumer advocates hope the courts will block the sale, forcing online retailers to stick to their promises to the very end.