Sometimes a consumer can shop online and make a purchase with a few clicks of the mouse (or taps on the screen).
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Of this group, 59 percent say they did not make a purchase due to the amount of money or available credit in their bank account.
Half of those who use the site daily say they wouldn't make a purchase through it and 57% of all users claimed they never click on ads or other sponsored content.
At the same time, eCommerce and mCommerce retailers are faced with just for starters, a low conversion rates (only 2.85% of eCommerce visitors make a purchase) and increased product assortment translates into an obstacle for relevant search results.
Founded last year by a pair of 29-year-old fraternity buddies from the University of Texas, it has created easily downloadable software to enable Web shoppers to make a last-minute price check of dozens of sites when they are about to make a purchase.
Suppose a strategic acquirer decides to make a series of investments in a biotech company, including purchase of intangibles.
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You can now make a purchase with just a wave of your phone without a thought about how much the purchase really costs.
Founded last year by a pair of 29-year-old fraternity buddies from the University of Texas, it has created easily downloadable software to let Web shoppers make a last-minute price check of dozens of sites just when they are about to make a purchase.
Falling unemployment, rising consumer confidence, an improving housing market and wider availability of low-interest credit convinced consumers they were safe to make the big-ticket purchase of a car.
Similarly, many consumers who begin their shopping process with online research continue to go to a store to make their final purchase, citing lack of product information, a desire to touch and feel the product, and the ability to compare multiple products among other factors keeping them from purchasing online.
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The study also found that 60% of respondents reported a high likelihood to make a purchase based on an in-person interaction and that 67% of offline conversations are mostly positive.
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For example, if a consumer goes into the Gap to make a purchase and the First National Bank of Omaha's computer system is down, the Gap will be unable to make the sale.
Some of the cards operate like payment plans where borrowers make a purchase from the retailer on the card and then have a number of months to pay it back, interest-free.
Ms. Menendez's run-ins with police dated back to 2000, when she was arrested on a charge of using a stolen credit-card number to make a purchase, the law-enforcement official said.
Each time a consumer uses a credit card to make a purchase, the bank and card processor charge a fee that is approximately 2% of the purchase price.
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The beef I have with them, and nearly every other luxury car maker, is that they ask us to make the purchase of one of their vehicles a Christmas present.
The debate over the constitutionality of the individual mandate has mainly focused on whether the federal government has the right to make every resident of the country to purchase a particular product.
Take, for example, a 2012 study from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, in which 76% of consumers said they used their mobile phones in-store to help make a purchase decision, and more than half (53%) abandoned an in-store purchase because of information they found, such as lower prices or a negative review.
Let me go all didactic for a minute: the purchase of a new auto is just about one of the worst investments you can make.
With the push of a button, they can make a purchase, interact with their peers, or launch a simultaneous robot attack on competitors.
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But, regardless of whether you make a one-time purchase or sign up to invest monthly, you have no control over the respective trade date.
Consumers are not interested in spending a huge amount of time browsing before they make their purchase so the path to purchase must be seamless.
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The Dutch electronics giant said the purchase will make it a leader in the rapidly expanding business of flat-panel screens for televisions and laptop computers.
Blurring the line between in-store price comparison shopping and stay at home shopping via the Internet, IBM (IBM) reported the number of consumers using their mobile device to make a purchase on Black Friday this year increased by nearly two-thirds from 2011.
"It's very hard to make calculations on what type of plan to purchase, " says Linda Blumberg, a health-policy analyst at the Urban Institute.
While Spy Hunter may be an old concept, the developers have managed to capture the essence of the original and add enough new ideas to make it a worthwhile purchase.
Utilizing a PayPal platform active across applications on their smartphone, consumers will be able to open the application of a specific retailer and use the integrated PayPal account to make a purchase with just two clicks.
In many of these transactions, all a customer will need to do to make a purchase is type in his or her cell phone number and PIN.
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To make a purchase on a website, a MasterPass user would enter a password on the checkout page of a merchant who has installed the service as a payment option instead of typing in their card number, security code and other information that experts say slows down e-commerce transactions.
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