3 posts and columns on bricks and mortar stores

A Look at Walmart’s Plans for Making Commerce High-Tech (Video)

in Commerce on February 3 at 6:00 am PT

Walmart is typically associated with its everyday low prices, not with technology. But the mega-retailer is trying to change that by building a tech center just south of San Francisco.
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The Green Side of Online Shopping

in News on March 3, 2009 at 11:46 am PT

E-commerce reduces the environmental impact of shopping by using about a third less energy than traditional retail–but only if you skip the express airmail. A study out Tuesday by the Carnegie Mellon Green Design Institute offers a scientifically rigorous estimate of e-commerce’s green benefits. E-commerce not only uses less energy, but its carbon footprint is also a third smaller than bricks-and-mortar retail, the scientists found.