Retail system combining retail stores with electronic product ordering

A method of selling good, comprising the steps of:

• enabling customers to order products,
• keeping a limited number of items available for retail sale without ordering, and
• providing coordinative management of merchandise available for retail sale and only for ordering.

A management system for retail system combining product ordering and retail sale, comprising:

• an ordering management mechanism for handling products in a product ordering system that enables customers to order all products available in the retail system, and
• a retail management mechanism for providing from a central location automatic merchandise management in a plurality of retail stores that keep for retail sale a limited number of items selected among the products available in the retail system, said merchandise management being performed in coordination with the product ordering system.