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bricks and clicks

1. (Commerce)

a. a combination of traditional business carried out on physical premises and internet trading

b. (as modifier): bricks-and-clicks companies.

2. (Commerce) (as modifier): bricks-and-clicks companies.

[C20: from bricks and mortar and click, meaning an act of pressing and releasing a computer mouse button]

References in periodicals archive ?

However, it's not all doom and gloom for retailers, brands who are integrating a bricks-and-clicks business model are reaping the rewards.

Ben Hatton Bricks-and-clicks retailers forging bright future

FROM NEW WEB SITE FUNCTIONALITY through more automated client services, bricks-and-clicks institutions retain a leg up on our Summer 2001 Mortgage Scorecard, Gomez's Summer 2001 Internet Mortgage Scorecard[TM] ranked the top 15 online mortgage firms from more than 300 online real estate firms tracked.

Gomez Scorecard Analysis: Banks Gain Online Mortgage Momentum

Other candidates: bricks-and-clicks (10), a traditional business with a web site, and c.u.

American Dialect Society chooses its "Words of the Year 2000"

Giving new meaning to bricks-and-clicks, nurse practitioner Stephen Allred has taken his flu shot business to the Web.

Shop and shots

Moreover, "online-only" barter sites do not seem to work as well as "bricks-and-clicks" models.