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The Pricing Strategy that Can Save Brick and Mortar Stores

Harvard Business Review

As retailers tally up sales from the crucial holiday period, the early returns look good: spending rebounded in 2010, with MasterCard reporting a 5.5 percent — and the 2010 holiday season may mark the first time that online spending accounts for more than 10 percent of all gift purchases. Online spending jumped by 15.4

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Top Line Growth? There's an App for That

Harvard Business Review

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. Amazon, and eBay in B2C commerce and Covisint and GS1 in B2B. Though AllStays isn't connected to Wal-Mart, the app is probably good for the retailer: Think of all those early-morning shopping visits.). Think of Yahoo!,

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.”

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