Holiday mobile search: It’s the big retailers shoppers are looking

Even though big retail chains are investing a serious buck in their marketing efforts, American holiday shoppers still need assistance finding local Wal-Mart and Target stores. According to V-ENABLE, holiday shopping directory assistance searches for retail businesses tend to be mostly for big-named, large-numbered retail giants. Other popular retail searches were pharmacies, electronics stores, gaming businesses, restaurants and gas stations.

The top ten retail business searches in major metropolitan areas were:

1. Wal-Mart
2. Target
3. Game Stop
4. Best Buy
5. Walgreens
6. Publix
7. AutoZone
8. KMart
9. Toys R Us
10. Blockbuster Video

And if you care to know, data was gathered from November 23rd, Black Friday, to Dec. 7th from millions of searches conducted by customers of several V-ENABLE partners including major national carriers such as Alltel and MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS)…

[Via: Wireless Developer Network]