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.

Best Buy’s Interesting Choice of a New CEO

Best Buy has recently been weathering quite a storm. It is struggling financially and facing intense competition from Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, and many others. Things got so bad that the company’s founder, Richard Schulze, made a hostile bid — which did … Continue reading

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The World’s Booming Dynamo of Online Shopping: Asia-Pacific

Even with a population representing only 5 percent of the people worldwide, North American consumers have always led the way with the highest regional market share of global online shopping. However, as eMarketer reports, in 2013, Asia-Pacific consumers will begin … Continue reading

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Both Retailers and Shoppers Losing Interest in Daily Deal Sites

A couple of years ago, daily deal sites such as Groupon seemed to be the wave of the future: retailers would get new customers to stop by to try out their wares and shoppers would get big bargains. Yet, today, … Continue reading

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