Retail store services, available through computer communications and interactive television; and promoting the goods and services of others by arranging for sponsors to affiliate their goods and services with an electronic distribution service, and promoting the goods and services of others by preparing and placing advertisements and product access information in an electronic format accessed through a global computer network, and promoting the goods and services of others by preparing and placing advertisements in television advertising, and promoting the goods and services of others through the distribution of discount cards, and promoting the goods and services of others by awarding purchase points for credit card use or for making purchases through the service, and promoting the goods and services of others through the distribution of printed material and promotional contests