A system and method for electronic commerce. In one embodiment, product
data is received for a plurality of products and sales data is received
for each of the products. A sales trend condition is calculated for each
of the products based on a current time, the sales data for each of the
products, and the product data for each of the products. A customer
request to view the products is received, and a web page including a
predetermined portion of the product data and a sales trend indicator
representing the sales trend condition for each of the products is
presented. The method may be implemented on a server computer which
communicates with customer computing devices via a wide area network such
as the Internet.