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Thanks to Shift Your Shopping and a number of other national and local initiatives aimed at raising consumer awareness to shop at independent retailers, those surveyed by national nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) outperformed the industry, reporting an average increase in holiday sales of 6.7% in 2011.
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If it does, it would remedy the current leadership, which has faltered amid the shift toward online shopping and struggled with large box real estate and related inventory issues.
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Although we acknowledge that the company has been pushing significantly into online sales itself and its online sales are growing at a much faster pace than its overall sales, a shift to online shopping is likely to detract from a distinguishing feature of Best Buy in customer service.
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Many had predicted the economic downturn and consumer shift to more money-saving shopping habits would be a boon for the world's biggest retailer.
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The report's author, Dr Peter Brierley, believes that the decline reflects wider social changes - such as the decline in church attendance and the shift towards Sunday as a day for shopping or for divorced parents to see their children.
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Recognizing and understanding this shift in consumer behavior is the first step in reducing shopping cart abandonment.
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As well as extra shift payments existing staff are said to have been offered shopping vouchers to persuade them to work longer hours.
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The walk started at the Pentagon City shopping mall and went past a make-shift memorial, full of flowers and U.S. flags, near the Pentagon crash site.
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The consumer shift online that Pichette talked about had more to do with holiday shopping than advanced geolocation services.
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