In the future, shopping will be greatly influenced by a combination of localization issues, mobile internet at the point of sale, and use of social networks. This book focuses on the ‘SoLoMo synergies’ that arise from this paradigm shift in future shopping, which also promises new and...

Our data from 1600 German Internet users reveals three major social media-induced trends in German society. First, for social media, “infancy” is over! In 2012, social media became mainstream and are now heavily used by all strata of the German population. No matter what age, educational...

Survey-based consumer confidence indicators are mostly reported with adelay and are a result of time consuming and expensive consumer surveys.In this study, to measure the current consumer confidence in Germany, wedevelop an approach, in which we compute the consumer sentiment...