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[Editorial] Google's "Checkout" and the retail challenge

Google's "Checkout" is more than a payment sytem to rival PayPal: this system questions who is the actual retailer in the mind of the customer, and weakens retailers' increasingly tentative grip on customer loyalty.

[Editorial] Punish a retailer for £5, yet too lazy to take £80m in savings

Retailers know how they are punished for falling off the 'first page' of Price Comparison engines by a drop in sales, yet recently-released research from Pricerunner shows that customers are " One in five Britons will not get out of bed to save a tenner on a purchase and one in ten would rather stay on the sofa than bank £50". As retailers screw their margins to insignificance in order to shift product via price comparison, and to 'close the sale' online, what are we to make of this behaviour?

Blurring the lines between e-media and etailing: Marie Claire signs partnership deal with my-wardrobe.com

Once upon a time the lines between a publication and a retailer were really clear. But, gradually, affiliate marketing has been blurring those lines. Now Marie Claire has blurred them still further with the launch of a co-branded fashion trends channel with an online fashion retailer, opening the door for similar deals to be struck between retailers and publishers in other sectors as well

[Editorial] Embrace multichannel, integrate, ???, profit!

InternetRetailing.net's web editor, Sarah Clark, on the day's news...