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Price comparison sites and competition

Just as the Christmas shopping season gets into full swing, new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council shows that consumers can reap big benefits from shopping online as Internet retailers change their prices far more frequently than traditional stores, and are more likely to cut them than to increase them.

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