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It's up to the particular business.

Some people believe in the hyperlean "Four Hour Workweek" theory where you ought to be as scarce as possible.

Some businesses are about building a community. Particularly if you're looking for customer one, two or three, that's going to be a high touch proposition.

Personally, Zappos drives me nuts. I can't see how their "high touch" approach to selling clothes online can be profitable at the prices they sell things for. Perhaps it isn't, and Amazon is a sugar daddy that's going to let them make a name for themselves as people get used to the idea of buying clothes online -- Amazon can fund them for the five years or a decade that it will take for the boutiques to go out of business.