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Barewalls.com Voted Best of the Web for 2003

Internet Retailer honors Barewalls.com's innovative approach to online retailing

Sharon, MA (December 11, 2002) -- Barewalls.com, the Internet's leading print and poster retailer, is pleased to announce its selection as a Top 50 Retailing Site in Internet Retailer's annual Best of the Web ratings. This recognition places Barewalls.com alongside such e-commerce giants as Amazon.com, Dell, eBay and Office Depot, each chosen for its groundbreaking approach to online retailing.

Barewalls.com is the only poster and print e-tailer honored as an Internet Retailer Top 50 Retailing Site. Internet Retailer magazine was impressed by Barewalls.com's unique search engine and cataloguing system. Barewalls.com's search engine has been designed to mimic a shopper's natural thought process, enabling browsers to intuitively search more than 100,000 images to find the right poster or print. Barewalls.com also distinguished itself from its peers with its targeted merchandising strategy, which narrows selection by providing multiple points of entry into the site's online gallery.

"Since 1997, Barewalls.com has thrived on its innovative approach to selling posters and prints online -- growing from an Internet pioneer, to one of the Web's leading e-tailers," said Daniel Spira and Lorne Lieberman, Barewalls.com's co-founders. "We are thrilled to be included as an Internet Retailer Top 50 Site."

The fourth annual Internet Retailer Best of the Web -- Top 50 Retailing Sites run the gamut of retailers and sizes -- from Target and Amazon.com, big and broad, to Guild.com and Fortunoff, small and focused. "Internet Retailer's Best of the Web recognizes 50 sites in seven categories that are adopting innovative approaches to online retailing," says Kurt T. Peters, editor of Internet Retailer. "They are not exclusively the biggest, busiest or most profitable sites; they're sites that succeed in a highly competitive market with strategies and innovative techniques that other retailers can learn from."

The editors base their selections of the Top 50 on consultations with members of Internet Retailer's Editorial Board of Advisers and with industry consultants and analysts, nominations from readers and the editors' own experience in dealing with sites, both professionally and personally, throughout the year.

Internet Retailer's Top 50 Retailing Sites for 2003:

• 1-800-Flowers (NASDAQ: FLWS)
• Albertson's (NYSE: ABS)
• Altrec
• Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN)
• American Greetings (NYSE:AM)
• BackcountryStore
• Barewalls
• Bellacor
• Best Buy (NYSE:BBY)
• Blue Nile
• Bombay Co. (NYSE:BBA)
• Buckle (NYSE:BKE)
• Buy.com (NASDAQ: BUYX)
• Cabela's
• Camping World
• Cooking.com
• Crate & Barrel
• Crutchfield
• Dell (NASDAQ:DELL)
• Drugstore (NASDAQ: DSCM)
• eBags
• eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY)
• FAO Schwarz
• Fortunoff
• Guild
• Hanna Andersson
• Harry & David
• HPShopping (NYSE:HPQ)
• Ice.com
• Igo.com (NASDAQ: IGOC)
• J. Crew
• J.C. Whitney
• Lands' End
• Lowe's
• MLB.com/Shop
• Office Depot (NYSE:ODP)
• Omaha Steaks
• Oriental Trading
• QVC
• RadioShack (NYSE: RSH)
• Red Envelope
• ReturnBuy
• Safeway (NYSE:SWY)
• Sharper Image (NASDAQ:SHRP)
• SmartBargains
• Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX)
• Target (NYSE:TGT)
• TechnoScout
• Tower Records
• Undergear

About Internet Retailer

Published by Chicago-based Vertical Web Media LLC, Internet Retailer is a monthly national business magazine and web site that serve the retailing community. It focuses on the Internet's vital role in a wide array of retailing activities, including web merchandising, supply chain management and multi-channel integration. Its 34,000 subscribers are senior executives primarily from retail chains, independent stores and catalogs. Internet Retailer's circulation represents the largest multi-channel readership base of any retailing magazine. The magazine also publishes the most widely read e-mail newsletter in retailing, IRNewsLink, which is distributed twice-weekly to 22,000 opt-in subscribers.

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