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]