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Consumers with uncertainty about product value often evaluate a product in a physical store but then purchase it online at a lower price. This popular shopping behavior is referred to as “showrooming.” Recent studies find that showrooming adversely affects the retailer. The advance of e‐commerce has attracted an increasing number of suppliers to the practice of building an online channel alongside...