Electronics
After just four years, the British white goods retailer AO is to discontinue its Dutch online shop. On the European mainland, the company wants to focus exclusively on Germany - and even that now seems uncertain.
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It seems a lost fight to compete with web shops, but not every retailer is simply throwing in the towel. A German household appliance seller has found an original way to entice customers.
Blokker Holding’s online organization, Nextail, will enter a strategic collaboration with online household appliance specialist AO.nl’s Dutch division.
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Online retailer Coolblue will expand its "CoolBlueBezorgt" service, which home delivers household appliances, all across the Netherlands. Currently, it handles about one out of 10 of those orders.