After years of recognition as a reputable PHP shopping cart solution ZippyCart.com recently announced that it would be increasing its services by expanding into a new role as a worldwide 3d party ecommerce resource provider. The new transformation may seem a little late in the game considering the volume of established competitors in the industry but ZippyCart has shown impressive growth, doubling its reader base, since its soft launch less than a month ago.

The new incarnation comes with new features that allow storeowners to start their own online storefront or add the new cart to existing fronts with ease, by offering a variety of shopping cart formats. The service also comes with useful analytical tools to compliment those several different carts, some of which offer unlimited bandwidth, nearly 8 gig disk space or unlimited product movement. Ranging in upfront costs and monthly fees from $0 to $1800.00 (upfront costs) to 0 to $250.00 monthly costs. But seriously let’s talk a little about the apocalypse now.

It’s estimated by the World Bank that the global economy could potentially lose as much as much as three trillion dollars (that’s $3,000,000,000,000.00) and shrink by as much as 5% in global GDP from a substantial swine flu outbreak. While there are several estimates done by federal and international bodies, this one from the World Bank is the most outrageously dramatic, and so I’ll gladly stick with it.  This presents retailers in particular with as strong an impetus as ever to create or strengthen their ecommerce services if they haven’t already done so. Some have suggested that ecommerce may in fact mitigate if not slow the economic damage done by a global swine flu pandemic as consumers turn to online storefronts- though we will have to rely on brave delivery truck drivers of particular mettle and valor to facilitate this. Therefore, ZippyCart and other ecommerce providers are well positioned to capitalize on the apocalypse and should perform well through the first three quarters of the apocalyptic fiscal year.

Tags: apocalypse, eCommerce, swine flu, truck drivers, world bank, zippycart

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