According to the latest IBM Online Retail Index, shopping with smartphones and tablets is growing fast. Driven primarily by shopping over tablets, mobile commerce sales rose by 31 percent in this year’s first quarter, as multi-channel buying has become one of the most popular ways to learn about and purchase products. At the same time, the same data indicated that retail sales in stores rose by 3.7 percent in that same time. These figures are from the latest IBM Online Retail Index, as well as from the U.S. Department of…
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