# Facebook storefonts fail, but f-commerce isn’t a failure | ZDNet

<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-storefonts-fail-but-f-commerce-isnt-a-failure/9251?tag=mantle_skin;content>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Over the past year, GameStop, Gap, JCPenney, Nordstrom, and other retailers have opened a store on Facebook to generate sales from their Facebook Pages with millions of Likes. While they opened storefronts with plans to monetize their Facebook fans, they couldn’t figure out how to do so and ended up shutting down their f-commerce attempts.

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