Retailing

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CIO December 15, 2003 John Blau	Future Is Now at Supermarket At one of Metro AG's Extra supermarket outlets in the industrial Ruhr Valley city of Rheinberg, Germany, about the only thing automated systems won't do is place a shopper's groceries in her car. This is the retail giant's experiment begun in April known as the Future Store.
CIO December 15, 2003 Juan Carlos Perez	First-Mover Advantage Now it's official: strong market positioning means price-setting power in online sales. That's the word from an April 2003 study on the effects that price changes had on the online book sales of rivals Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2003 LouAnn Lofton	Wal-Mart Goes Digital The retailing giant wants to sell you digital tunes.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2003 Dave Marino-Nachison	Cleaning Circuit City's Face Is the consumer electronics retailer doing enough to update its stores?
The Motley Fool December 17, 2003 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Cheers for Sears Sears does the right thing by lifting spoil dates from its gift cards. By announcing this move with just days left in the critical holiday shopping season, it is catching its fellow retailers off guard in terms of following suit.
Knowledge@Wharton	Cherry Picking: The Weapon of Choice for Price-conscious Consumers Do cherry pickers -- those consumers who are extremely sensitive to price and go from store to store to pick the best-priced items and leave the rest -- really save a lot of money? A new study finds that they do, and it's enough to justify the extra time and effort.
InternetNews December 16, 2003 Susan Kuchinskas	E-Tailers Send Shoppers Back to the Mall As retailers integrate their Web sites with other channels, the Web is becoming a marketing tool to drive traffic to physical stores.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2003 LouAnn Lofton	Wal-Mart's Holiday Worries Gloomy news from the world's largest retailer casts another shadow over the prospects for a prosperous holiday season for U.S. retailers.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Robert D. Hof	Reprogramming Amazon Sure, it still sells loads of books and CDs. But it's fast morphing into a tech company.
The Motley Fool December 12, 2003 Alyce Lomax	Sears Slashes, Mad Dashes? The department store retailer tries the early holiday-sale lure to hook shoppers.
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