Its leaders chose to ignore the long-term trend away from traditional retail toward on-line shopping.
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Sixty percent indicated they were using on-line shopping and price comparison applications to find them.
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They would create an on-line shopping site selling goods from home-based businesses.
Nobody in traditional retail has found a way to reverse the on-line shopping trend, which is still dominated by Amazon.
She cited Cowbridge as an example of a thriving high street which had survived against the challenges presented by out-of-town centre and on-line shopping.
Or drive more on-line shopping, like Amazon?
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Encouraged by price matching guarantees and free delivery offers this Holiday season, I believe more shopping will swing to on-line venues as consumers engage in intensive comparison shopping before buying.
Its developers have set up lists of on-line stores in ten shopping categories, from computer supplies to wine (with more to follow), and have taught the software how to make sense of the quirks of each one.
Stock rallies do not begin on Wall Street they begin in the shopping malls and on-line stores, where consumers vote on which products will be the winners and which will be the losers.
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Lara Shriftman, publicist and party-giver extraordinaire (her line of party products is sold on the Home Shopping Network) throws a holiday party every year for Lulu Flynn, her 3-year-old miniature Shih Tzu, and Lulu's doggy pals, including actress Lara Flynn Boyle's Shih Tzu, Greta Garbo, and tennis champ Serena Williams' Jack Russell, Jackie.
They either used a car-broking service or did their window shopping and price comparisons on the Internet and used a broker to line up a local deal.
Michael, his girlfriend and about 350 others waited on the high-end shopping street in Frankfurt where the Apple store is located, although bystanders said the line was shorter than when the previous iPad version was released.
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