Posted March 28, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Here’s an interesting approach to try and curb showrooming: charge customers $5 for looking around in your store. That’s exactly what one specialty foods store in Brisbane, Australia, is doing to try and stop people from just “looking around” according…
Posted March 1, 2013, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
On Friday Best Buy rejected an offer from company founder Richard Schulze to take the electronics retail giant private. Schulze got the ball rolling last summer when he proposed an informal offer of $24 to $26 per share but according…
Posted February 28, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
A recently published report reveals that a number of brick-and-mortar retailers risk falling victim to showrooming, where consumers go to look at items at a local store before placing orders online. According to Placed: Aisle to Amazon, consumers that showroom…
Posted October 12, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
As online shopping becomes increasingly popular, it would seem traditional brick and mortar operations anchored down by their expensive store fronts can't truly compete -- or can they? In what seems to be a daring game of commerce chicken, Best…
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