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Brick-bait: three tricks up retailers' sleeves to lure you back to physical shops

  • Written by Eloise Zoppos, Senior Research Consultant, Monash University
Brick-bait: three tricks up retailers' sleeves to lure you back to physical shopsDepartment stores and clothing retailers are drawing on consumer behaviour and psychological research to compete with online shopping.Shutterstock

Bricks-and-mortar retail stores are under intense pressure from online competition. Feeling the most heat are clothes shops and department stores.

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