The first team buyers found each other by accident as they chatted online about buying everything from electronics to cars and even apartments and realised they could get a better price if they went shopping together.
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By coming together in virtual shopping malls organised by portals such as Yahoo!
Think of what a shopping mall accomplishes in bringing together a multitude of sellers and buyers who interact directly with each other under one roof rather than through a third party.
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What if 10, 000 buyers shopping for a Toyota Camry got together and negotiated a fleet price?
Ls, allowing them to pull together, say, shopping centres from several different portfolios and sell them in bulk to a single investor.
After Hurricane Sandy, the CFDA, Vogue and Tory Burch Foundation banded together to stage a shopping event to benefit victims of the natural disaster.
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Shopping, cooking, eating and cleaning together, they share one remote control and many secrets in three bedrooms at night.
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The deal would have brought together Lycos, USA Networks' Home Shopping television Network and Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, a ticketing and online entertainment agency.
She spends less time shopping for herself, isn't always "put together" and opts for comfort over style now that she's a mother.
"As merchants, no one understands our customers' shopping and payment experience better than we do, and we're confident that together we can develop a technology solution that makes that experience more engaging, convenient and efficient, " said Mark Williams, president of financial services, Best Buy.
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First on his shopping list should be a pair of fluorescent orange overalls that don't fit - anywhere, together with some smelly, steel toe-capped boots.
Now they are trying to turn these ramshackle federations into alliances bound together with new broadband cable that can carry two-way traffic and deliver sports, movies, online shopping and other luxuries to consumers who are willing to pay extra for them.
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