From Point of Sale to Point of Need: How Digital Technology Is Transforming Retailing

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From Point of Sale to Point of Need: How Digital Technology Is Transforming Retailing . / Reinartz, Werner; Imschloß, Monika.
in: NIM Marketing Intelligence Review, Jahrgang 9, Nr. 1, 01.05.2017, S. 42-47.

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