bricks-and-mortar stores

Shoppers looking to avoid long lines and physically draining shopping experiences have started to shift away from brick-and-mortar retailers and more towards online shopping. Even the shoppers who travel to stores are “showrooming," a practice in which the shoppers examine and test out products...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to know where you are and what you are doing – specifically, what you are buying – at all times. According to Digiday, the company is beta testing a program that registers your visits to bricks-and-mortar stores via your smartphone, provided certain conditions are...