Pinterest Drives The 'Reverse Showrooming' Phenomenon, Where Shoppers Browse Online But Buy In-Store
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Vision Critical describes this as part of a wider phenomenon it calls "reverse showrooming," in which consumers search or browse products online and then enter the physical shop to make a final purchase.
(This contrasts with showrooming, which implies handling a product in stores, only to price-compare and buy it for less money online.)
Vision Critical's study adds credence to the notion that
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But how did pinned items originally come to the attention of consumers? Google, email, blogs? Pinterest itself?
Vision Critical found that 50% of the items caught users' attention while they were casually browsing Pinterest itself (24% on a stranger's boards, 19% on a friend's, and 7% on a retailer's). Another 10% came from Pinterest searches. These numbers are a testament to Pinterest's power as a kind of user-generated digital retail catalog that shoppers flip through for ideas.
Unlike traditional showrooming, which is spurred by e-commerce giants like Amazon and eBay, reverse showrooming seems to have its roots in social media and social commerce: friends' and strangers' recommendations can inspire shoppers' purchase decisions, offline and online.
No surprise then that
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