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.

An Innovative Approach to Bricks-and-Clicks Retailing

In this era of omnichannel retailing, new technological tools are being continually introduced to enable retailers to offer the best possible customer shopping experience. Here’s a creative approach to bricks-and-clicks retailing from Salesfloor. With Salesfloor Storefront and Salesfloor Connect: For the … Continue reading

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Online Grocery Shopping Revs Up

Just a few years ago, online grocery shopping was quite limited due to delivery availability and skepticism about buying groceries online. Now, the situation is rapidly changing and competition is heating. As recently noted by Retail TouchPoints: “As many as … Continue reading

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The Future Roles of the Physical Store

As we are well aware, many traditional brick-and-mortar stores are evolving in response to the impact of online shopping — which more and more people are using both to acquire information and to make purchases without visiting a store. Big … Continue reading

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