It is becoming increasingly clear that retail reinvention isn't a simple battle to the death between bricks and clicks.

越来越明显的是，零售再造不再是一场简单的线下销售与线上销售之间你死我活的战争。

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E-Trade is even adding bricks to its clicks.

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The experiment with e-commerce thus far has shown that online shoppers tend to favor the bricks-and-clicks models so they don't sacrifice having a physical location where they can get advice, view products or make an exchange -- a finding that bricks-and-clicks universities are likely to recognize and copy, Levine said.

CNN: Web brings radical changes to higher education

However, the real educational battleground of the future could be for the territory occupied by bricks-and-clicks institutions, which is what most of today's major universities are likely to try to become, Levine said.

CNN: Web brings radical changes to higher education