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By Vivek Astvansh, Associate Professor of Quantitative Marketing and Computational Data Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Preetinder Kaur, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Guelph, Pushpinder Gill, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University, The Conversation · November 10, 2026
A big retailer can be both a fierce competitor and a traffic-generating anchor for nearby businesses.
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