Tag Archives: customer service

Online Shopping: Follow the Bouncing Prices

Online retailing enables companies to regularly (instantly, if they like) change the prices they offer — to reflect competition, low or peak seasons, sales of particular items, and so forth. This means, for both buyers and sellers, product pricing is … Continue reading

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Free Internet Connections at McDonald’s

For years, retailers such as Starbucks and Panera Bread have encouraged their customers to use wireless in-store Internet connections — usually, for free.  Now, we can add McDonald’s to the mix, where Web access is sometimes used in a different … Continue reading

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Building Long-Term Multi-Channel Retationships

It is imperative that retailers have strong, consistent customer relationships among all of the channels (formats) in which they operate. Bronto, a software provider that offers E-mail, mobile, and social messaging with drag-and-drop automation, and Retail TouchPoints, an online publishing network … Continue reading

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