Britain's big retailers face multiple problems – shoppers are buying more online and are cutting back on big weekend trips to the supermarket.
Along with its English site, it also has an international transfer service that forwards orders from multiple vendors to shoppers.
But "shopping engines" like ChoiceBot.com, which should be up and running by the end of September, promise to help shoppers compare multiple products using multiple criteria, like size and weight and screen size.
It introduced multiple currencies so that shoppers could browse and buy in their local currencies.
A disproportionate number of Black Friday shoppers have multiple credit cards, which augments their purchasing power.
"Thank heaven for the Chinese," says one Coach store manager, who notes that multiple purchases by Chinese shoppers exceeding $1,000 are a frequent occurrence.
A brand's goal is to seamlessly interact with shoppers at multiple touch points, increase brand penetration across these platforms and, in so doing, ultimately inform all phases of purchasing thought processes in an integrated, non-intrusive and, hopefully, organically relevant and intimate way.
So they are playing a multiples game to entice shoppers to buy more than their shopping lists dictate.
She is a Hong Kong Chinese, and she returns so frequently to buy leather goods, which are then shipped to gray markets for Vuitton products in Asia, where shoppers pay multiples of the Paris prices, that Vuitton has banned her from its stores.
The rapid development of e-commerce worldwide, means more e-commerce business processes adopting the structure of multiple participants; these include shopper clients, merchant and third-party payment platforms (TPPs), banks, and so on.
