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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:
- Wal-Mart
- Target
- Game Stop
- Best Buy
- Walgreens
- Publix
- AutoZone
- KMart
- Toys R Us
- 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…
[Via: Wireless Developer Network]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
