Retail department stores; retail on-line department stores; retail convenience stores; retail on-line convenience stores; computerized on-line ordering featuring general merchandise and general consumer goods; providing an on-line commercial information directory on the internet; providing an on-line searchable computer database featuring trade information in the field of business information available via a global computer network; dissemination of advertising for others via an on-line electronic communications network on the internet; providing a searchable on-line advertising guide featuring the goods and services of other on-line vendors on the internet; database management services