Multi-channel retailing
The London Plan, published by the Mayor of London in March 2016, suggests that multi-channel retailing is: ‘A retailing strategy that offers customers a choice of ways to buy products including for example, retail stores, online, mobile stores, mobile app stores, telephone sales, mail orders, interactive television and comparison shopping sites.’
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