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Retailers rethink stores to fight online competition
U.S. retailers believe this life left in their brick-and-mortar stores and they're trying new ways of making them more inviting by pampering customers — both the two- and four-legged kinds.
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Sales Tax Isn't Why Online Retailers Are Killing Your Store
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The media is constantly buzzing about real world retailers being unable to compete against online stores that provide the same merchandise. The stories often focus on the advantage online retailers have in avoiding charging sales taxes. But in reality the advantage isn't all about the taxes: It is often about variety of products, availability, the price, and when you can ...
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ACCC to probe online price deals
The competition regulator has announced it will investigate clothing importers who are making deals with international online stores to inflate prices for Australian shoppers.
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More Hits; More Stores: How Web Traffic is Driving Brick and Mortar Expansion
Web Traffic Driving Brick and Mortar Expansion
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eBay's GSI Commerce to Help Branded Clients Enter China
eBay's ecommerce unit GSI Commerce has entered into a partnership with Fireswirl Technologies to help GSI's clients enter China. Fireswirl helps brands operate online stores in China, including flagship stores on Alibaba's Taobao Mall, the leading Chinese business-to-consumer online retail website.
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Wayfair makes move toward prime time
Wayfair is an online retailing giant with a big problem. Even though it sells 4.5 million products, from bird baths to baby strollers, nobody knows its name.
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XCOM®: Enemy Unknown Invades Stores on October 9, 2012
2K Games announced today that XCOM®: Enemy Unknown, the highly anticipated action-strategy game from Firaxis Games, will be available for purchase in North America on October 9, 2012 and internationally on October 12, 2012 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC.
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Analysts to Best Buy: Name Your Chief and Get Online
While the "Big Box" closes stores and searches for a new CEO, analysts expect Best Buy to survive if it invests online and settles on a strong leader.
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ANALYSIS: The pre-owned market
Before March this year, GAME and Gamestation were by far the UK’s biggest pre-owned game retailers. Second-hand goods even made up a third of the group’s total revenues last year. Yet this dominant force in used games has fallen. 277 of its shops have closed. So where do these customers go now? There are of course other High Street chains, online stores, supermarkets and independent retailers ...
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Beyond Facebook: A look at social network history
Beyond Facebook: A look at social network history Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 02:19 p.m., Friday, May 18, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook may have made social networking a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but it wasn't the first Internet company to connect people online ...
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