I think that's why no one has been able to knock Amazon from the top spot in online retailing.
They were supposed to revolutionise retailing but the readers, software and other gear needed to make them useful is still not cheap enough to be universally adopted.
The auto industry and retailing remain in distress.
Cyclical industries such as retailing and food manufacturing may also see lots of mergers and takeovers.
Low interest rates, a consequence of euro membership, lit a fire under property prices and spurred a building and retailing boom.
Except in big cities near the coast, conventional retailing is fragmented and underdeveloped.
Placement (or distribution) : refers to how the product gets to the customer; for example, point-of-sale placement or retailing.
Yet the Friday after Thanksgiving, the kickoff to the highest-revenue weeks for stores, is expected to lay bare the increasingly parallel universes of retailing in America, the analysts said.
The package includes bottles of Truffle Shampoo and Truffle Conditioner, retailing at ?275, to take home, and a hot stone cranial massage.
The property market's distortions feed through to other sectors, such as retailing.
Even so, analysts predict that overall, retailing will escape a recession this year.
Last year it bought Exxon Mobil's distribution and retailing business in Brazil to help it sell its ethanol.
Foreign firms have realised that they need to get a toe-hold in India quickly, without waiting for the government to open up retailing to foreign direct investment (FDI) properly.
Concluding thus the parson rode on his way, with doubts as to his discretion in retailing this curious bit of lore.
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