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Ostrich Report: Digital Delivery vs Bricks'n'Mortar

North American retailer GameStop is not that worried about digital delivery of video games. Says its CEO Dan DeMatteo, "We don't expect full (digital) distribution of new games to be a threat due to game size" in an recent analysts call.

Antique shops moving online

Brick-and-mortar stores are closing as dealers -- and collectors -- migrate to the Internet and auction houses.

Old-style retailers gain online

Retailers that operate both brick-and-mortar stores and Web sites, known in the industry as multichannel retailers, accounted for 50 percent of e-commerce sales in the second quarter of 2008, up from 45 percent in the same period last year, according to a study released this week from ComScore Inc.

What's the Best Video Game Download Service?

ThinSkin writes "Who needs a brick-and-mortar game shop when you have the world wide web of video game download services? Joel Durham Jr. over at ExtremeTech examines some game download services to decide once and for all which virtual storefront has the best deal for gamers. Among the services reviewed are: Steam, Impulse, Direct2Drive, Good Old Games, and WildTangent Orb. The most popular site in the roundup, Steam, was also the most favored because of its wide selection of popular titles, while Direct2Drive also scored top marks because it has 'just about every title in the universe.'" Which service(s) do you like the most, and what have your experiences with them been?

Online payment processor offers low-fee RevolutionCard

A new credit card accepted at some 300,000 bricks-and-mortar retail locations will soon be available to online merchants. Online payment processor CardinalCommerce Corp. says it will begin offering RevolutionCard acceptance to its e-retailer clients next month.

EC wants pan-Euro online shopping laws

An EU directive that will harmonise consumer protection for online and bricks and mortar sales made another lurch along the Brussels’ legislative roadmap yesterday.

EC wants pan-Euro online shopping laws

An EU directive that will harmonise consumer protection for online and bricks and mortar sales made another lurch along the Brussels’ legislative roadmap yesterday.

Social Online Shopping

Despite its conveniences, online shopping has never captured the social experience of brick and mortar shopping. Now, a handful of Web sites are springing up to bridge the gap.

Retailers can take tips from physical stores to e-commerce, study says

The E-tailing Group’s 4th Annual Cross-channel Shopping study compared the experience of finding product information at multi-channel retailers’ bricks-and-mortar locations vs. their online shops. Physical stores scored a 3.98 out of 5 across the 50 items evaluated, while online stores averaged 3.05.

Bills Take Aim at Online Sale of Stolen Goods

Three bills focusing on the sale of stolen goods online would impose new obligations on Web auction sites while not putting enough responsibility on brick-and-mortar stores to protect themselves against shoplifting, two e-commerce representatives said Monday.

SCAN TV interview part 3: etail vs retail

The final part of our exclusive TV interview with Elan Raja, director of operations at Bolton etailer SCAN, we discuss why SCAN is increasing its bricks-and-mortar retail presence when the market seems to be moving in the other direction.

Economy stunts e-commerce growth

AUG. 7 | Growth in consumers’ online spending has slowed dramatically in 2008 as a result of price increases and the soft economy, according to ComScore. E-commerce growth rates remain significantly stronger, however, than bricks-and-mortar retail, where growth has been negative throughout 2008 when adjusted for inflation.

Music, Retail and Tech Leaders to Offer "slotMusic(TM)": High Quality, DRM-Free MP3 Music on microSD(TM) Cards

cards will soon be made available with pre-loaded, high quality, DRM-free MP3 music of top artists from EMI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. A selection of slotMusic cards will first be available at brick-and-mortar and online stores throughout the U.S., including Best Buy and Wal-Mart, with Europe to follow. A complete list of slotMusic albums, availability and pricing will be announced in time for the coming holiday season. SanDisk Corporation (SNDK), inventor of the ubiquitous microSD format, is leading the technology development behind slotMusic.

Music, Retail and Tech Leaders to Offer "slotMusic(TM)": High Quality, DRM-Free MP3 Music on microSD(TM) Cards

cards will soon be made available with pre-loaded, high quality, DRM-free MP3 music of top artists from EMI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. A selection of slotMusic cards will first be available at brick-and-mortar and online stores throughout the U.S., including Best Buy and Wal-Mart, with Europe to follow. A complete list of slotMusic albums, availability and pricing will be announced in time for the coming holiday season. SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), inventor of the ubiquitous microSD format, is leading the technology development behind slotMusic.

From traditional retail to e-commerce business

Before I joined Alibaba.com in 2006, I was president of B&Q China. B&Q is one of the world’s largest home improvement retail chains. At the time, many people asked me why the head of a traditional, brick-and-mortar business would choose to join a new and emerging Internet company. What made somebody who used to doubt the power of the Internet to do business turn to the e-commerce industry?

E-Commerce: Fertile Ground for Venture Investors

Even in a down economy, there is money to be made for those who know where to look. One such area of golden opportunity is the e-commerce sector. Many of the same factors that are dampening consumer spending in the brick-and-mortar world -- gas prices, for instance -- are driving shoppers online, notes Safeguard Scientifics SVP Kevin Kemmerer.

Deployment of VendorNet StoreNet(TM) Manager Enables E-Commerce Sales for Jones Apparel Group

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- VendorNet(R), a supply chain collaboration solutions provider, today announced that it has successfully launched Jones Apparel Group as a new user of its e-commerce and in-store collaboration technology, VendorNet StoreNet(TM) Manager. The application enables the automated fulfillment of e-commerce orders utilizing bricks and mortar store inventory essentially making corporate-wide inventory available for sale on the web.

My favorite tea stall...

Rupesh and I figured that the high-altitude tea stalls earn about 5,000 ($75 USD) rupees per day.  In a country where the average earnings are 75 cents per day, THAT'S a good business.  I had the best cup of ginger tea of the entire trip here.  The woman ground the dried ginger with a mortar and pestal right in front of me and made her fire out of dried yak dung..., but cost for the cup of tea was 100 rupees  compared to the usual 15-30 rupees.  All I can say is GOOD FOR HER!  She also imported her apples from the "other side of the pass" since she didn't think the apples on this side were any good.  She was right...

Arguments I will point out again, and again if necessary. Amazon has a choice. The...

Arguments I will point out again, and again if necessary. Amazon has a choice. They can choose to lower or completely stop discounting books that offer them only a 20-39% discount. They can accept the fact that, on the bookselling side of this equation, they are a retailer and accept 40% off list, standard, like every other bookseller. In other words, they can quit trying to put the brick-and-mortar bookstores out of business and play fair. They apparently haven't chosen to be fair, to compete on a level playing field. In my mind, this puts their honesty in question. On the printing side of things, Amazon can quit acting like a two-bit thug and clean up BookSurge's act, the quality issues, that sort of thing. They could strive for the best, most consistent quality and lower their prices a notch, and compete--fairly and honestly.

Will digital distribution doom the likes of GameStop?

GameStop is easily the king of specialty gaming retail in the US. With thousands of stores, a huge workforce, and the ability to push specific games via in-store promotions, it may not be well loved, but it is well traveled. The problem is that fewer and fewer PC games are being sold in stores, with the success of digital distribution platforms like Steam and the EA download service. Meanwhile, consoles are starting to catch up with Sony by offering full, big-name titles like Burnout: Paradise for sale online. Is GameStop scared of its business model, brick-and-mortar game stores, dying out? Not one bit. Whether that's hubris or the inability to change is an unanswered question.

"slotMusic" To Offer MP3s On MicroSD Cards

How we think about music and particularly how we treat it as consumers has changed in an age where digital content is so easily available. CD sales have slowed as the market has changed, and some would say this is partly becuase the music industry has struggled to innovate when it comes to its distribution models. So how about a new format to shake things up a bit? That's what has been announced today, with music industry giants EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner teaming up with memory manufacturer SanDisk to launch slotMusic. This essentially boils down to microSD cards, that will come pre-loaded with high quality (playback at up to 320kbps) DRM-free MP3s and will be available at bricks and mortar stores such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart. The 1GB cards could potentially contain other content such as album art or any other media that an arti

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