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Re:Amazon Prime Air by colanderman on Sunday December 01, 2013 @09:12PM (#6830929)
Brick and mortars ought to pivot into the showroom business, à la Sony or Apple stores. That is practically what many have become (cough Best buy cough); the least they can do is charge manufacturers/distributors for display space.
Re:Amazon Prime Air by ghaff on Sunday December 01, 2013 @09:18PM (#6830969)
That implies that they can get the manufacturers to pay them. BTW, explicit manufacturer showcasing is pretty uncommon today. You have the manufacturers' stores (Apple, Microsoft) and you have some limited showcasing in large retailers like B&H for photo. But it's pretty uncommon.