Shoppers can use an iPhone Amazon price check app to read product reviews of products they focus their smart phones on in stores, but also to see if the same item can be purchased through Amazon for less money, a ploy the online retailer is using hoping to activate the economy-driven value nerve currently vibrating through much of the marketplace.
Abercrombie is due to report second-quarter earnings Aug. 17, and RBC expects 30 cents per share driven by the 9% increase in same-store sales for the period the retailer reported Aug. 4.