At the micro-, or managerial, level of marketing channels, the design of marketing channel structure for reaching targeted customers no matter how high-tech cannot ignore the paradigm of functional shifting. The Internetbased technologies that have enabled e-commerce channels to be embedded in social networking sites such as Facebook and made mobile commerce possible do not mean that the laws of economics on which functional shifting in marketing channels is based have been repealed. On the contrary, channel mangers attempting to develop sophisticated, high-tech, multi-channel structures still need to pay close attention to which channel members can perform the marketing functions most efficiently (Rosenbloom, 2007). Thefact that technology can make a particular channel configuration possible does not mean that such a channel structure makes economic sense.