brick and mortar

Best Buy dropped a bombshell on a few of its customers earlier this week, informing them that gifts they ordered to be delivered by Christmas were not going to make it on time.

On the eve of "Cyber Monday," online retailers reported an even stronger start to the holiday shopping season than brick-and-mortar stores.

With the rising sales of e-books and failing brick and mortar bookstores, is it the end for the printed text? Maybe; but maybe not.

Seriously? In this kind of economy, you're going to use Facebook to tell a grown man who comes into your brick and mortar place of business to serve your customers that he no longer has the job he counted on to help support his household while he goes to school full time?

As Cyber Monday 2010 deals begin rolling out, so does the data on Black Friday. Online retailers saw a 16 percent rise year over year, according to market research firm CoreMetrics, leading retailers, both brick-and-mortar and online, to hope for a profitable holiday season.

(California Institute of Technology) We've all heard the predictions: e-commerce is going to be the death of traditional commerce; online shopping spells the end of the neighborhood brick-and-mortar store.While it's true that online commerce has had an impact on all types of retail stores, it's not time to bring out the wrecking ball quite yet, says a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology.

(PRESS RELEASE – January 11, 2010) – SBV Productions officially launched in Los Angeles, California.

The on-line start up is the brainchild of Tim Ross and Paul Peltekian, co-founders of the hugely successful real estate on-line photo and video company Home View, LLC, and was created to meet the on-line marketing needs of the local “brick and mortar” small business owner.

My son needs a new phone, so yesterday at my suggestion, we took a trip to the local AT&T retail store to get a look at the options up close and personal.

Instead of eager sales people trying hard to sell us phones, we found they preferred to send us over to the Mall to retail partners Best Buy and Radio Shack.

Seems to me if you are going to spend the capital to keep a brick and mortar operation going, you might want to try to be a bit more enthusiastic about selling phones.

Why Are We Here?

(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) In their competition with brick-and-mortar stores, online retailers will do best if they promote the ability to search out and obtain niche products online, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.