eBay Displays Products from Local Brick-and-Mortar Retailers

Shoppers can now search eBay.com for inventory from their local brick-and-mortar retailers. eBay first tested the local search feature during the holidays using technology from Milo, which it acquired last year (see this AuctionBytes Blog post). The new local-search tool features inventory from approximately 50,000 stores across the 50 states, including Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble and other large retail chains. eBay announced on Thursday that smaller retailers could also upload their inventory onto Milo and eBay using a new inventory management plug-in for QuickBooks. Currently the search results are segregated from eBay sellers' product