Category Archives: Part 2: Ownership, Strategy Mix, Online, Nontraditional

This sub-category encompasses retail institutions by ownership type, retail institutions by store-based strategy mix, and Web, nonstore-based, and other nontraditional forms of retailing.

The Pre-Store Impact of Digital Shopping

Although the purchase volume of in-store transactions remains dominant (well over 90 percent of consumer purchases are concluded in a physical store), digital pre-store shopping tools are becoming more and more popular. Nielsen reports the following based on its research: … Continue reading

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Measuring Whether Retailers Are Providing Good Jobs

As we have reported before, it is critical for retailers to better understand and motivate their employees. With that in mind, what retailers are doing best with employee relations and performance? Recently, Zeynep Ton, an adjunct associate professor the MIT Sloan School of Management, … Continue reading

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Fighting Credit Card Fraud

Credit card fraud costs retailers, consumers, banks, and credit card firms billions and billions of dollars worldwide — and that only includes the fraud we know about, not the fraud that goes unreported. This post focuses on online credit card … Continue reading

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