brick-and-mortar

Examples of brick-and-mortar in the following topics:

• B2C Channels

  • The first is the traditional "brick-and-mortar" store – a physical location for consumers to visit.
  • Shopping malls, grocery stores, and restaurants are all examples of brick-and-mortar stores .
  • Usually, a brick-and-mortar establishment offers consumers the chance to see, touch, and/or try the products.
  • For companies, developing and maintaining a website is easier and less expensive than building and occupying a brick-and-mortar store.
  • The Apple retail store in Chicago, Ill. is an example of a "brick-and-mortar" store.

• Channel Integration

  • Systems and processes within retail simply facilitate the customer journey to transact and be served.
  • Omni-channel retailing is concentrated more on a seamless approach to the consumer experience through all available shopping channels like mobile internet devices, computers, bricks-and-mortar, television, catalog, and so on.
  • The brick-and-mortar stores become an extension of the supply chain in which purchases may be made in the store, but are researched through other channels of communication.
  • A clear and thorough understanding of the customer, or target market, is required to be able to make appropriate decisions about channel integration and usability.
  • Because brick-and-mortar sales influenced by online search are four times higher than total e-commerce sales, omni-channel retailers need to be informative, personable, always connected, and allow channel transparency.

• Direct Marketing

  • Direct marketing allows businesses and nonprofit organizations to advertise and market directly to customers via a variety of print and electronic mediums.
  • The industry employs approximately 1.4 million people directly and another 8.4 million in related jobs and businesses.
  • Reduced mail cost and the elimination of "brick and mortar" retail stores have helped to decrease the cost of direct marketing campaigns.
  • Social media reaches out to targeted consumer groups and showcases compatible goods and services.
  • It provides valuable and reliable consumer and sales data, as well as clear, quantifiable success metrics for analysis.

• Selling to Consumers

  • It is the second largest and the earliest form of e-commerce.
  • Thus, the more common B2C business models are the online retailing companies such as Amazon.com, Drugstore.com, Beyond.com, Barnes and Noble, and Toys-R-Us.
  • The more common applications of this type of e-commerce are in the areas of purchasing products and information, and personal finance management, which pertains to the management of personal investments and finances with the use of online banking tools (e.g., Quicken).
  • B2C e-commerce also reduces market entry barriers since the cost of putting up and maintaining a website is much cheaper than installing a "brick-and-mortar" structure for a firm.
  • Classified ads at portal sites such as Craigslist (an interactive, online marketplace where buyers and sellers can negotiate and that features "Buyer Leads & Want Ads")

• Natural Resource Market

  • Public goods, like air and riverways, are non-excludable and non-rivalrous.
  • For example, pollution is a result of production processes that can foul the public goods of air and waterways.
  • Soft commodities are agricultural products such as wheat, coffee, cocoa and sugar;
  • In Europe, commodity markets are regulated by the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma), based in Paris and formed in 2011.
  • Land is one of the three factors of production, can be used to mine other natural resources and is absolutely necessary if a person wants to have a "brick and mortar" location where they can sell their goods.

• Indonesian Architecture

  • The earliest Buddhist structures in Indonesia to survive to the present day are the 4th century Batujaya plastered brick stupas in West Java.
  • The islands of Sumatra and Java in western Indonesia were the seat of the Sri Vijaya Empire (8th–13th centuries), which practiced Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism and were a major political and cultural influence in the Southeast Asian peninsula.
  • Stone and bronze sculpture flourished between the 8th and 10th century CE under the Sailendra dynasty in Java and Bali.
  • The building material of choice was brick and mortar of vine sap and palm sugar.
  • Majapahit architecture is characterized by tall and slender roofed red brick gates, a strong geometrical quality, and a sense of verticality, achieved through numerous horizontal lines.

• Internet Retailers

  • An online shop, eshop, e-store, Internet shop, webshop, webstore, online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or shopping center.
  • The largest online retailing corporations are eBay and Amazon.com, both of which are US-based .
  • Online shoppers commonly use a credit card to make payments, but some systems enable users to create accounts and pay by alternative means, such as: billing to mobile phones and landlines, cash on delivery (or C.O.D., which is offered by very few online stores), checks, and wire transfers.
  • This method is often used in the bricks and clicks business model.
  • Printing out, provision of a code for, or emailing of such items as admission tickets and scrip (e.g., gift certificates and coupons): The tickets, codes, or coupons may be redeemed at the appropriate physical or online premises and their content reviewed to verify their eligility (e.g., assurances that the right of admission or use is redeemed at the correct time and place, for the correct dollar amount, and for the correct number of uses).

• Architecture in the Vijayanagar Empire

  • The Vijayanagar Empire ruled in South India from 1336 until 1646 and left a lasting legacy of architecture, sculpture, and painting.
  • Its style is a harmonious combination of the Chalukya, Hoysala, Pandya, and Chola styles that evolved in earlier centuries and represents a return to the simplicity and serenity of the past.
  • Vijayanagar temples are surrounded by strong enclosures and characterized by ornate pillared kalyanamandapa (marriage halls); tall rayagopurams (carved monumental towers at the entrance of the temple) built of wood, brick, and stucco in the Chola style; and adorned with life-sized figures of gods and goddesses.
  • Pillars and beams were made of wood and the roofs of brick and lime concrete.
  • The courtly architecture of Vijayanagar was generally made of mortar mixed with stone rubble and often shows secular styles with Islamic-influenced arches, domes, and vaults.

• Rome

  • Rome remains the world's epicenter of classical architecture, and ancient Romans are considered innovators of the arch and the dome.
  • The Roman use of the arch, and their improvements in the use of concrete and bricks, facilitated the building of many aqueducts throughout the empire .
  • Ancient Roman concrete was a mixture of lime mortar, sand with stone rubble, pozzolana, water, and stones.
  • Builders placed these ingredients in wooden frames, which hardened and bonded to a face of stones, or, more frequently, bricks.
  • When the framework was removed, the new wall was very strong and had a rough surface of bricks or stones.

• Roman Architecture under the Republic

  • Roman temples were typically made of brick and concrete and then faced in either marble or stucco.
  • Most Roman buildings were built with concrete and brick that was then covered in façade of stucco, expensive stone, or marble.
  • Arches and vaults can be stacked and intersected with each other in a multitude of ways.
  • Where the Aqua Marcia had contact with water, it was coated with a waterproof mortar.
  • From top to bottom: Doric and Tuscan, Ionic and Roman Ionic (scrolls on all four corners), Corinthian and Composite.