Article: ShopLocal Retail Index Reveals Shoppers Increasingly 'Windowshopping' Online.

Cost-Conscious Grocery and Home Improvement Shoppers Drive ShopLocal Index up 30% in April as Retailers Pump up Promotions

CHICAGO, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ShopLocal, the leader in multi-channel shopping and marketing services, today announced that the ShopLocal Retail Index (http://www.aboutshoplocal.com/research_shoplocal_index.html) was up 30 percent for the month of April compared with the same period last year. The Index registered 188 for the month* (benchmarked at 100 for January 2006), and is based on 265 million page views from 21 million consumer visits to retailer sites.

According to a recent ShopLocal survey, shoppers are becoming ...






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