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Old 07-08-2011, 07:21 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by ATimson View Post
It sounds like their complaint is "we don't even bother to try to match Amazon's prices but can't survive, won't anybody think of the retail stores, boo-hoo".
"We in the book trade need to be ever-mindful of the fact that high street retailers cannot survive as showrooms for internet retailers indefinitely." - That sounds reasonable to me. Let's not pretend that people don't exploit physical stores to go and browse and then whip out their phones to order off the internet.
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