It is becoming increasingly clear that retail reinvention isn't a simple battle to the death between bricks and clicks.

越来越明显的是，零售再造不再是一场简单的线下销售与线上销售之间你死我活的战争。

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An internet-driven economy blurs the line between bricks and clicks.

因特网驱动的经济将使网上经济与传统经济的界限不再分明。

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The experiment with e-commerce thus far has shown that online shoppers tend to favor the bricks-and-clicks models so they don't sacrifice having a physical location where they can get advice, view products or make an exchange -- a finding that bricks-and-clicks universities are likely to recognize and copy, Levine said.

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So big national "bricks and clicks" retailers, such as Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart Stores and Target, collect taxes on most online sales.

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The "bricks and clicks" model, as Lehigh University's Snyder describes it, calls for moving some goods to large centralized distribution centers, which have the economies of scale to lower the carrying costs of inventory.

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