Visit a Northern California Circuit City outlet during a weekday evening and you'll find 20-odd shoppers poking through a cramped, low-ceilinged building with out-of-date goods, such as a Nintendo Gamecube, on display.
In Manhattan, where grocery stores are plentiful in all but a few neighborhoods (Harlem and Lower Manhattan are among the exceptions), it might seem odd that some shoppers would choose pointing and clicking over visiting a store.
In what may strike shoppers as an odd union, Kroger, the nation's second-largest retailer, announced on Tuesday that it would buy Harris Teeter, an upscale grocer known for fresh foods and produce, in a deal valued at $2.5 billion.
As odd as it sounds, any online shopper in Britain buying Traps from Amazon is creating a sale for the internet group in Luxembourg.
Meantime, the largest companies in the category are seeking more attention among shoppers with campaigns that are offbeat and even odd.
A few pennies (and the odd public information campaign) are all it takes to motivate shoppers to bring reusable bags to the store.
The choice to go Android-first seems odd, given that so many retailers report the majority of mobile shoppers arrive from iOS. (Perhaps it's worth noting that one of Slice's backers is Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, then).
Something notable here, perhaps – assuming that, for many of these shoppers, price is the reason for the extra research, it initially seems somewhat odd that furniture shoppers don't do the same.
The rumored service was already a bit of an odd fit for Amazon, which currently uses Prime Video as a means of upselling online shoppers to its $99 annual membership program, Amazon Prime.
A further sign Soriana has arrived: A shopper walking into Wal-Mart's Monterrey stores will first pass through columns of odd goods–oranges, salad crackers, flour heavily promoted as cheaper than what's over at rival Soriana.
Hard sell, hard times Something for something Ending the exodus Hibernation test The odd couple In the public interest Rumble in the jungle ReprintsWhat matters to retailers, however, is how much shoppers actually spend.
