Showrooming vs Windowshopping - What's the difference?
showrooming | windowshopping |
; inspecting merchandise in a physical store, then purchasing the identical product from an online merchant; using a physical store as a showroom for an online merchant.
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* 1959 , Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (volume 15, number 9, November 1959, page 368)
As nouns the difference between showrooming and windowshopping
is that showrooming is ; inspecting merchandise in a physical store, then purchasing the identical product from an online merchant; using a physical store as a showroom for an online merchant while windowshopping is .As a verb showrooming
is .showrooming
English
(wikipedia showrooming)Verb
(head)Noun
(-)- Traditional retailers are devising strategies to counteract the threat from showrooming .
- Best Buy Co. Inc. CEO Hubert Joly denied that "showrooming" is a threat to the retailer in an interview with the Star Tribune published on Sunday.
windowshopping
English
Noun
(-)- Although it may simplify matters to the point of naivete and vulgarization, such windowshopping may also tell us roughly what is on the market.
