The showrooming phenomenon has resulted in lower gross profit margins and increasing focus on customer retention that often takes the
form of a subscription business model and a membership mentality.
P.s. I wrote about the
rise of subscription business models in my blog post «Amazon Prime and other Subscription Businesses: How do you Value a Subscriber?»
Bruce Mountain, an electricity market analyst and director of CME consultancy, said a similar
type of subscription business model had been used for large industrial electricity users, except in those cases, the customers took on the risk of being exposed to a highly fluctuating «spot pricing» for power.
It offers retailers a turnkey solution where all
aspects of the subscription business — including the website, the databases, the logistics, the cleaning, returns, packing, shipping, and more — are handled.