Thursday, December 16, 2010

Phone-Wielding Shoppers Strike Fear Into Retailers


WSJournal

Tri Tang, a 25-year-old marketer, walked into a Best Buy Co. store in Sunnyvale, Calif., this past weekend and spotted the perfect gift for his girlfriend.

Last year, he might have just dropped the $184.85 Garmin global positioning system into his cart. This time, he took out his Android phone and typed the model number into an app that instantly compared the Best Buy price to those of other retailers. He found that he could get the same item on Amazon.com Inc.'s website for only $106.75, no shipping, no tax.[...]


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  1. According to the 1994 edition of The College Board Guide to High Schools published by the College Entrance Examination Board, Leib Tropper's brother in law, Rabbi Yoel Adelman, was the guidance director working under Ephraim Bryks at Bryks's yeshiva in Queens.

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