For many merchants, that strategy -- to use both traditional and online stores to reach consumers -- was embodied by Internet kiosks, which sprang up in the aisles of Gap, Staples and Borders, among others.
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Merchant explains his strategy is to blend his social and work lives.
As revenue channels, they are both necessary for a merchant's omnichannel strategy.
With other merchants, that kind of strategy has often backfired.
Nikolay says it is a marketing strategy for merchants, because they're paying the commission to Rakmet only for those transactions.
Mr. Segal, also 27, is the business development and strategy manager for Merchant Exchange, a marketing Web site in New York, which allows subscribers to customize offers from various retailers and service merchants.
Square's strategy with small merchants, of course, got massively expanded earlier this month when the company announced a landmark deal with the multinational-cafe chain Starbucks.
However, while Rabois says that while targeting large retailers and merchants isn't a set strategy, we can probably expect a few larger-scale strategic partnerships the company will form in the future.
When Germany's Dresdner Bank paid £1 billion ($1.6 billion) in 1995 for Kleinwort Benson, a British merchant bank, it chose a third strategy.
