Market mavens are individuals who actively gather information about many kinds of products, places to shop, and technologies.
Internet and out-of-town shopping present a fundamental challenge to the traditional role of town centres as a places to shop, it says.
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While many traditional malls in North America are getting squeezed by a big-box era that includes the likes of Wal-Mart Stores, Best Buy and Target in nearly every county, Asia's rapidly growing economy has spawned a new wave of consumers looking for places to shop and play.
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Instead, U.S. Internet companies continue to seek their exits via the acquisition market, where deep pocketed players like Google and Microsoft continue to shop for places to employ their mounting cash piles.
"A lot of people tell us they are currently driving outside Holmfirth to shop, travelling to places like Huddersfield, Penistone and Meltham, " she said.
You have to shop at places like Bergdorf Goodman, FAO Schwarz or, in Europe, at Harrods or Galeries Lafayette.
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In the physical world, people prefer to buy established brands, or to shop in places that are popular and that they have heard good things about.
As you may be aware, Amazon does actually already make it easier for you to shop at places other than Amazon.com with its Amazon Payments service, and it now looks like it might even be thinking about expanding things to brick and mortar stores as well.
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With later shop opening and places to eat, Princes St will be an even greater asset for Edinburgh.
Businesses are not going to set up shop in places where roads and bridges and ports and schools are falling apart.
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We also fail to note that that employee might shop at places like A.C.
And people especially like to shop, and eat, at trusted places.
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Today, manufacturers and other companies are setting up shop in the places with the best infrastructure to ship their products, move their workers, communicate with the rest of the world.
It can start to correlate all of your relationships, all of the places you shop, all of the restaurants you dine in and other such data.
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