Abstract*: Recent advances in information technologies (IT) have powered the merger of online and offline retail channels into one single platform. Modern consumers frequently switch between online and offline channels when they navigate through various stages of the decision journey, motivating multichannel sellers to develop omni-channel strategies that optimize their overall profit. This study examines consumers' cross-channel search behavior of "pseudo-showrooming," or the consumer behavior of inspecting one product at a seller's physical store before buying a related but different product at the same seller's online store, and investigates how such consumer behavior allows a multichannel seller to achieve better coordination between its online and offline arms through optimal product placement strategies.

Participants in the study were grouped into the following categories:

- Where_bought: Where they ended up purchasing an item: bought at the store, bought online.

- Who_bought: If they bought from the same or a different retailer.

Each participant was then measured on:

- Money: how much money they spent in dollars on the product.

- Time: how much time (in minutes) they spent looking at the product online.

1) What would be one possible null hypothesis based on this study?

2) What would be one possible alternative hypothesis based on this study?

3) Who are they sampling in this study?

4) Who is the intended population in this study?