Yet in our review, only 2% of the Hot 100 retailers sought in-store engagement through SMS, and only 5% promoted a proprietary mobile application.
Group 1 Automotive (NYSE:GPI) has generated a 6.7 percent increase in same-store revenues through the nine months ended Sept. 30, compared with a year earlier.
This strategy can be applied through in-store mobile points of sales, and also through a direct to consumer model that bypasses retail stores altogether.
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Consumers can find the new all-LED E-Series line both in-store and online through key retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Costco, Sam's Club, Target, VIZIO.com and Walmart.
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It couldn't be learned whether Apple will sell the HarperCollins titles via a new e-book store or through its existing iTunes Store, which sells music, television shows and movies.
Created by Padopolis, this app offers consumers an alternative to in-store holiday shopping through a collection catalogs from major retailers such as Nordstrom, Filson, Coldwater Creek, Patagonia, Merrell, Coldwater Creek and others.
All E-Series LED TV units as well as the 2.0 and 2.1 E-Series and M-Series Sound Bars will be available both in-store and online through key retailers such as Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club, Target, Amazon and VIZIO.com.
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And long-time sponsor Smirnoff is spending its resources to promote its Bond tie-in through TV commercials, in-store displays and promotional events.
It currently gets its revenue by taking a cut of click-through App Store purchases and selling sponsored links to game developers.
Among the most important of those is that SimpliVity reduces the volume of data that companies need to store and retrieve through de-deduplication and compression.
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Starbucks already offers an in-store CD burning service through its Hear Music outlets, plus it peddles compact discs, usually strategically placed between the cash register and pastry case as a last-minute buy.
Transferral of authorized access can be device-to-device through an intermediary like an online store, device-to-device without an intermediary, meaning verification must be established at a later time.
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This is a viable solution for stores losing sales to potential customers who browse in-store but end up researching products and eventually buying through online-only retailers such as Amazon.
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It certainly isn't inconceivable that Apple will start selling high-def video through some sort of iTunes-like online store ( Steve Jobs talked a lot about HD during his Macworld keynote this past January), but an Apple satellite network (at least as described) just sounds like some Apple fanboy's wet dream.
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The accompanying table shows same-store-sales growth from January 2006 through January 2007, as tabulated by Thomson Financial.
This could also be done (less elegantly) through in-store kiosks or iPads.
These businesses, despite representing some of the highest earning taxpayers in America, get lumped in with Al down at the hardware store simply because of the flow-through nature of their business structure.
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To get into the store, customers step through a coin-operated photo booth and past the arcade games in the window.
Those bent on pre-ordering through the Apple Store saw the company's online portal exhaust itself within an hour of the 3:01AM availability -- faster than the iPhone 4 and 4S, and no doubt crushing the hopes of North Americans who value their sleep.
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Showing products but then redirecting a user to a hard-to-read website for the actual purchase or failing to tie in the process to the in-person experience through deals and pickup ability at a brick-and-mortar store will upset your customer.
They have mobile-like features such as real-time notifications and one-click installation through the Pokki store.
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Through its on-line store, Dell also sells some 30, 000 computer-related products including Hewlett-Packard printers and PalmPilot organizers.
Though Sony Ericsson declined an earlier request from Google to develop a phone to be sold through its Web-only store, Nordberg said he is "open" to future collaborations.
Speaking of forking over money for apps, you can do just that through the web store checkout process -- put in your credit card right on your computer screen, save for later use (if that's your thing), and you're good to go shopping.
Instead of purchasing e-books through a single online store to read only on compatible software (i.e. books bought from the Kindle Store can only be read on Kindle apps), Google lets consumers buy books either from its store or any other online vendor that sells books in EPUB and PDF formats, and read them on any device with a web browser.
In a heated back and forth, the two debated whether it was truly harmful to force everyone who wants to purchase a gun -- whether at a gun store, a gun show, or in a private sale -- to go through a background check.
The mp3 ended the era of the compact disc, first through illegal file-sharing services like Napster, later through legal downloading destinations like the iTunes Store.
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Walking through a Pier 1 Imports store with Marvin Girouard, the chain's 62-year-old CEO, is like trailing a picky shopper through a Middle Eastern bazaar.
Customers will be able to download SYNC-enabled mobile apps through the same app store interfaces currently used.
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The Xperia ZL is now available online for pre-sale at Sony Store and will soon be available through other select online retailers.
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