# Prof. Scott Galloway on Facebook as a retail tool

1 Faculty News August 19, 2013 ![Fox Business logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031722.jpg?itok=a0Gxu60a)>

Excerpt from [Fox Business](http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/2013/08/19/study-facebook-commerce-head-fake/) -- "[Galloway](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway) says the decline in specialty retail stores on Facebook shows that most users don’t come to the social network when they plan to shop. 'They don’t approach Facebook with a commerce mindset,' says Galloway. 'People are there to socialize and look at pictures of friends.'”

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