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Online prices are generally the same as prices in the store, survey finds If you’re a bargain hunter, it’s common to spend time researching prices before making purchases. After all, you wouldn’t want to buy a washing machine at your local Lowes store only to find a lower price offered on Lowes.com.

Devoted shoppers may spend hours hunting for bargains online. But new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds that much of the time — about 72%, in fact — prices are identical to those in stores.

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Many shoppers assume that online prices are lower than in-store prices. However, a recent study by MIT Sloan Prof. Alberto Cavallo found that prices are actually identical about 72% of the time for products sold both online and offline.

MIT Sloan study reveals information of use to consumers and economists Sure, online shopping is generally more convenient than going to the store for your purchases, but prices are pretty much the same three quarters of the time, according to a new MIT study.

Technically Incorrect: An MIT professor conducts a worldwide analysis of prices online and off. The results might surprise some. Amazon has educated me in so many ways.It’s taught me that the “Lord of the Flies” was an excellent management book.It’s also taught me to believe that online prices are cheaper than those in stores.

You find lower prices online than at bricks-and-mortar stores, right? Wrong. Alberto Cavallo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology displayed resourcefulness and ingenuity by producing a wide-scale international comparison of online and offline prices at “brick-and-motar” stores.

Coles shoppers are paying a hefty premium on some groceries when they shop online and use the supermarket’s supposedly free “click and collect” service or home delivery. Fairfax Media compared in-store and online prices on 10 popular brand label items at Coles and found eight of them were 10 per cent more expensive for online

Shopping online is cheaper right? Think again. Big data has helped challenge that conventional wisdom. Alberto Cavallo, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has undertaken a huge, international comparison of the “online and offline” prices charged by big retailers.

You find lower prices online than at bricks-and-mortar stores, right? Wrong. Alberto Cavallo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology displayed resourcefulness and ingenuity by producing a wide-scale international comparison of online and offline prices.