Strangely, online retailers have an interest in the survival of bricks and mortar shops.
The sentiment behind this applies not just to the bricks and mortar of a football stadium.
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To everybody else it's bricks and mortar, but to us it's home and it hurts.
The problem, I suppose, is not merely about bricks and mortar it is about changing attitudes.
Take the personal ambiance and experience of a bricks and mortar design store and put it online.
It means that unlike a bricks and mortar university, we are able to offer flexible delivery patterns.
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Unless people start living in virtual buildings, there will always be plenty of bricks and mortar to trade.
Bricks and mortar merchandising has to outsmart the growing fist of Internet retailing.
It is also moving away from "bricks and mortar" costs by investing in virtual rental kiosks, among other changes.
The bricks and mortar lobbying and PR armies were already at Defcon 1.
"London is paying much more attention to legacy value, to the bricks and mortar work that they undertake, " he said.
Tower Records, now a bag of fast-depleting, fast-selling assets, symbolizes for many the bankruptcy of bricks and mortar music retailing.
As far as China, she believes that the focus will be less on bricks and mortar and more on e-commerce.
They want to stay together as a family group, and are vehemently opposed to living in conventional bricks and mortar.
Digital marketers and ecommerce marketers, etc. will begin to influence and drive more revenue than their bricks and mortar counterparts.
With the bricks and mortar stores losing relevance by the day, Borders hopes that this strategy provides a way forward.
Both were reacting today to the outrage expressed by traditional bricks and mortar retailers, the media and Maine Sen.
Certainly, this bricks and mortar retailer is a far more alluring investment than Amazon, with its sky-high valuations and slumping margins.
Like most multinationals it runs branded hotels under profit-sharing management contracts, while local investors tend to own the bricks and mortar.
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Bricks and mortar are needed, but so are knowledge networks and institutional capacities, which rely on social, cultural and intellectual capital.
Thousands of "bricks and mortar" firms must retool their relationships with distributors and customers--or have it done for them by killer.com.
There is, however, more to a community than its bricks and mortar.
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In part this is so that she can get her books into bricks and mortar bookstores, which is very difficult for self-published authors.
"You won't suddenly see bricks and mortar pick up and shift, but we will see business start to shift, " she told the BBC.
With the handicap of having so much capital tied up in bricks and mortar, management needs to make quality investments with their remaining capital.
Two such shops - one bricks, mortar and all, the other, a lease - are up for grabs on the internet auction auction site eBay.
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.
According to the report, despite the increase in Europeans shopping on line, they still prefer bricks and mortar retail stores for the convenience and personal touch.
Getting self-published books into bricks and mortar bookshops is always going to be tricky for self-publishers as they generally work outside of the structures that facilitate distribution.
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With all of their physical bricks and mortar storefronts, and their long heritage as a fixit shop for do-it-yourself types, they could attract a loyal following again.
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