The E-fairness Coalition, representing shopping mall operators and bricks-and-mortar retailers, is also backing the Enzi-Dorgan legislation.
Online purveyors, meanwhile, are embracing old-fashioned, bricks-and-mortar locations to drum up new business and gather new data on their customers.
Groupon represents what the dot-com boom was supposed to be all about: huge sales, easy profits and solid connection between bricks-and-mortar retailers and online consumers.
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And it has been hampered from distributing music directly to consumers via the Internet by long-term relationships with bricks-and-mortar retailers who worried about losing their cut.
Mr. JOHN BELLINGER (Legal Advisor, United States State Department): The ICC would not be trying Charles Taylor, they would simply be providing their facilities--their bricks and mortar--to the special court for Sierra Leone to try Charles Taylor.
Philip Beeching, 53, a web consultant and self-confessed showroomer, thinks online retailers may themselves turn to bricks and mortar - but not necessarily staff and checkouts.
Two such shops - one bricks, mortar and all, the other, a lease - are up for grabs on the internet auction auction site eBay.
Consumers are continuing this accelerated migration away from conventional bricks-and-mortar stores and onto the Internet.
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Gift cards, in short, are a fundamentally bricks-and-mortar focused business in an e-tailing world.
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The popularity of booking travel online has already driven many bricks-and-mortar travel agents out of business.
Bricks-and-mortar bookstores look increasingly out-dated, except as venues for leisurely coffee and book signings.
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Both Amazon and Kobo have secured solid bricks-and-mortar retail partners to sell devices.
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Their strategy was so successful that soon they were sucking deposits away from bricks-and-mortar banks across Europe.
Stung by what they see as unfair competition, bricks-and-mortar retailers are supporting efforts to change the law.
Back then, most consumers would go to their local bricks-and-mortar music store to get it on CD.
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And the figure is likely to continue to grow as the bricks-and-mortar video game stores continue to disappear.
As an executive with Entr Computer Center in the 1980s, he learned that bricks-and-mortar stores weren't the answer.
The site also gets money from bricks-and-mortar outlets that advertise on InfoSpace, an Internet yellow pages linked to Ehow.
However, luxury brands pursuing a bricks-and-mortar strategy in China could be missing out on shoppers living outside showcase cities.
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Increasingly, even the strongest dot.coms need such bricks-and-mortar alliances to grow and prosper.
It is one thing to take market share from fading dot.com minnows or bricks-and-mortar firms, but quite another for Yahoo!
Banks are increasingly moving business out of expensive bricks-and-mortar branches to cash machines, home computers and low-cost mini-branches in supermarkets.
As an alternative to bricks-and-mortar retail, e-commerce has ample benefits, but it is still an impersonal channel for buying products.
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For example, they must maintain bricks-and-mortar shops, so that disgruntled staff and customers have somewhere to go to make complaints.
So instead of shifting sales from online to bricks-and-mortar, he might succeed in shifting them from U.S. online merchants to foreign ones.
Many bricks-and-mortar bookshops still make a good living, as do flea markets.
For his part Mr Zapatero talks of a deal with unions and employers to transform Spain's bricks-and-mortar economy into a knowledge-based one.
As competition from bricks-and-mortar firms intensifies, making break-even points ever more distant, the future looks gloomy for Britain's new breed of entrepreneurs.
Burdened with rent and electricity and other costs, bricks-and-mortar stores are unlikely to offer prices that can compete with those of online venders.
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