E-Commerce
E-CommerceOnline Versus In-Store: Price Differentiation for Multi-Channel Retailers
Pure-play online retailers have created pressure on traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers forcing many of them to move to a multi-channel business model to provide customers online storefronts in addition to local physical stores. Conventional wisdom suggests that online prices be lower than in-store prices. This paper investigates whether multi-channel retailers follow such clear-cut pricing strategies based ...