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Shopping and the internet: Making it click
Feb 23rd 2012, 5:07 from Print edition
Retailers are striving to combine the advantages of physical shops with the benefits of online selling(6)
Retailers and the internet: Clicks and bricks
Feb 23rd 2012, 5:07 from Print edition
Many retailers are being too slow in reinventing themselves for the age of online shopping(37)
E-commerce in China: The great leap online
Nov 24th 2011, 9:17 from Print edition
China will become the world’s most valuable market for e-commerce(68)
Data-driven finance: Go figure
Mar 17th 2011, 11:53 from Print edition
A new class of internet start-ups is trying to turn data into money(0)
Online travel firms: The coming travel-website consolidation
Jan 26th 2011, 11:05 from Gulliver
As airlines have second thoughts about using them, travel websites are consolidating, and changing their business models(7)
Online booking: America's airlines go it alone
Jan 6th 2011, 5:41 from Gulliver
More and more airlines are eschewing external travel websites(8)
Restaurants after the recession: Getting creative outside the kitchen
Aug 12th 2010, 6:28 from Gulliver
Posh restaurants think of new ways to attract eaters(4)
Expensive restaurants: Of bits and bites
Aug 12th 2010, 11:39 from Print edition
Posh restaurants innovate to attract customers(3)
Economics focus: The click and the dead
Jul 1st 2010, 11:08 from Print edition
E-commerce favours large companies but only because that is what people want(5)
Reviews on travel websites: Who's writing the poor reviews?
May 14th 2010, 12:05 from Gulliver
Hotels track down the badmouthers(22)
Recommended economics writing: Link exchange
Apr 20th 2010, 10:06 from Free exchange
The best of the rest of the economics web(3)
Retail v e-tail in America: Bleak Friday
Nov 26th 2009, 11:40 from Print edition
Bricks-and-mortar shops struggle to win customers back from virtual ones(18)
Microsoft: You've heard this song before
Nov 9th 2006, 12:43 from Print edition
Microsoft's shameless imitation of the iPod is just one of many strategic shifts(0)
Are you being served?
May 3rd 2006, 9:05 from Print edition
More than ever, shopping is becoming a form of entertainment, as online retailing forces stores to rethink their roles(0)
The delivery business: Pass the parcel
Feb 9th 2006, 12:13 from Print edition
Online shoppers give parcels firms a new lease of life(0)
The travel industry: Flying from the computer
Sep 29th 2005, 12:31 from Print edition
The internet has pitted travel agents against travel providers in an intense battle to win customers(0)
Surfing for haute couture
May 12th 2005, 7:35 from Print edition
Experts predicted that women would never shop online for designer items. They were fabulously wrong(0)
Click to buy and fly
Oct 1st 2004, 6:27 from Print edition
Travel websites are fast catching on with customers and transforming the business of leisure travel. A revolution in business travel may not be far behind(0)
Online travel: Bon voyage
Sep 30th 2004, 12:11 from Print edition
Orbitz gets a new owner and a new deal(0)
Santa's helpers
May 13th 2004, 11:48 from Print edition
Retailers are the top performers online(0)
A survey of e-commerce: Distribution dilemmas
Feb 24th 2000, 12:00 from Print edition
Can the web merchants deliver the goods?(0)
Internet shopping: The once and future mall
Oct 30th 1997, 12:00 from Print edition
Internet shopping got off to a rocky start with thousands of clumsy cybermalls, before specialised retailers showed a better way. Now comes the third wave: the megastore(0)
Electronic commerce: In search of the perfect market
May 8th 1997, 12:00 from Print edition
The Internet, for all the miracles it has wrought in communications, is still a horrible way to buy a shirt. But it will get better, much better, says Christopher Anderson(0)
Electronic commerce: Tremble, everyone
May 8th 1997, 12:00 from Print edition
Whatever industry you are in, electronic commerce will shake you up(0)