Local shoppers seach online first
The overwhelming majority of US Internet users research online to find local products and services, according to the “User View Wave VII” from BIA/Kelsey and ConStat. The most common online tool used for local research was search. Nearly one-half of respondents used Internet yellow pages and 42% checked comparison-shopping sites before heading to local businesses.
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Shoppers’ cars will be used to power supermarket tills in a revolutionary new scheme.
The weight of vehicles driving over road plates into a new eco store will power a generator that creates enough electricity to keep checkouts ringing.
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It’s not all doom and gloom in the U.S. economy. Some products are bucking the recession and flying off store shelves.
Sales of chocolate and running shoes are up. Wine drinkers haven’t stopped sipping; they just seem to be choosing cheaper vintages.
Gold coins are selling like hot cakes. So are gardening seeds. Tanning products are piling up in shopping carts; maybe more people are finding color in a bottle than from sun-worshipping on a faraway beach.
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Supermarket shoppers in the next decade will be able to pick fruit and vegetables from plants still growing on the shelves, according to a report into the future of retailing.
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Companies constantly try to woo urban youth, a segment admired by marketers for its substantial disposable income and trend setting tendencies. So given all this, when a raw concept like a youth centric store that’s likely to be developed by Columbus Ohio based Chute Gerderman, its bound to create some hype! The concept named ‘UnionJac’ inspired from the British culture is a clothing, salon, cafe and hangout joint, all merged with interactive technology to make it more appealing for the shoppers.
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While some consumers in the US are shopping online to avoid driving, even those visiting stores in person are hitting the Web first.
Eight out of 10 respondents who had recently made consumer electronics purchases in a brick-and-mortar store said they had visited the store’s Website first, according to a May 2008 Nielsen Online survey. More than one-half said they purchased from the retailer on whose Website they had spent the most time.
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