Online Store Locator: An Essential Resource for Retailers in the 21st Century
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Wandosell Fernández de Bobadilla, Gonzalo; Parra Meroño, María Concepción; Baños Navarro, RaúlFecha
2019-02-14Resumen
Most retailers use their websites and social media to increase their visibility, while potential customers get information about these retailers using the Internet on electronic devices. Many papers have previously studied online marketing strategies used by retailers, but little attention has been paid to determine how these companies provide information through the Internet about the location and characteristics of their stores. This paper aims to obtain evidence about the inclusion of interactive web maps on retailers’ websites to provide information about the location of their stores. With this purpose, the store locator interactive tools of specialty retailers’ websites included in the report “Global Powers of Retailing 2015” are studied in detail using different procedures, such as frequency analysis and word clouds. From the results obtained, it was concluded that most of these firms use interactive maps to provide information about their offline stores, but today some of them s...
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online store locator
information technology
retailing
geographic information systems