Background information about e-commerce.
Online shopping has put tremendous pressure on brick-and-mortar retailers, causing large numbers of locations to go out of business. But lest anyone think retail is shrinking, the opposite is actually true. As of July 2017, retail sales were up ...
Drafting off of steady seasonal increases in both wholesale and retail sales, including the company's first line in clothing retailer Saks Fifth Avenue's New York City stores and Southern department store Dillard's, as well as ...
Shoptalk Europe, 2017’s most anticipated European event for retail and eCommerce innovation, today announced that more than 2,200 executives from established retailers and brands, startup direct-to-consumer disruptors, large and early stage ...
Embrace the change – that is one maxim of internet giant Alibaba. Change also means adapting to the wants and needs of customers. In this interview, Karl Wehner, Managing Director at the Alibaba Group, explains why the company is going to ...
The research, using data from Connexity Hitwise, shows that when a new store opens, traffic to the retailer’s website from the surrounding postal area increases by 52 percent on average within six weeks of opening. Importantly, digital traffic ...
Temando, a leading shipping and fulfilment software platform for commerce, today announced United States retailer and consumer survey data from its annual research report ‘State of Shipping in Commerce’. The survey polled 270 small and ...
"Europe is one of the largest and most dynamic e-commerce markets in the world", emphasizes Frank Schirrmeister, CEO at Arvato SCM Solutions. "US brands, therefore, need to actively improve their reputations in Europe." Hence, ...
Only eight shopping centers are currently being built in Germany. There are a number of reasons for this. Booming online business, extensive approval processes and the development of new building sites thwart development. To stay attractive, ...
According to the company’s latest report, sales of tablet devices are declining as consumers choose to spend more time on smartphones. Consequently, spend via these devices is set to grow 112 percent in the next five years. Key sectors aiding ...
When e-commerce retailers sell products every few seconds, it creates enormous challenges for their logistics processes. Sufficient qualified staff is currently not available to handle these tasks. This is why automated resources such as driverless ...
The retailing of different types of baby products through online or e-commerce is considered as online baby products retailing. Online retail provides consumers with the convenience to purchase products of their choice online and payment ...
If the seeming omnipresence of ecommerce innovator Amazon is an indicator of anything, it's that the power and influence of online retailing is not to be underestimated. The nigh limitless scope of products available online through Amazon ...
Happy Plugs (brand for fashion tech creating consumer electronics accessories) announced their partnership with Scope, a growth equity fund. Scope will add a scalable platform supporting sustainable brand growth and presence, further ...
Selling products on portals like Ebay or Amazon seems to be easy at first glance. However, retailers should consider some things to be legally on the safe side. We talk with Yvonne Bachmann about pitfalls and best practice. ...
RoseWholesale, an Asia-based online fashion retailer with wholesale prices, has taken several major steps to ensure product quality and enhance the shopping process. "The increase in Internet shopping in recent years has encouraged many ...
Retailer Dutyfreeonboard.com has eliminated the hassle of passengers carrying their coveted discounted duty free purchases & dealing with airline restrictions by delivering straight to travelers' homes or anywhere in the US and paying the ...
The owner of the popular warehouse book sale, One Dollar Bookswap and Amazon retailer, Murfbooks, is offering the Dayton area another opportunity to find the books and media they seek at affordable prices. Greg Murphy, Owner of the One Dollar ...
The Dublin-headquartered travel tech company delivers e-commerce technology to the world’s leading travel brands such as British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Iberia Airlines, Hainan Airlines, AIMIA, Loyalty One, Four Seasons, Avis, and Air ...
It highlights new findings such as that out of the leading Asian online retail markets, India is expected to have the strongest growth rate through 2021. Online retail made up a mere one-digit percentage share of all retail sales in India in ...
Online shopping – a shopper’s paradise. It offers a huge selection, there is no commitment, you can do it without interruption and it’s fast. At least that’s the ideal concept. Reality often differs greatly. Finding the right ...
Retailers who spend more on technology are more likely to enjoy high sales growth, according to a recent survey that IHL Group and NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), a global leader in omni-channel solutions, today revealed. The Unified Commerce ...
Click & Collect is a smart solution for both busy shoppers and profit-seeking retailers. It solves many of the problems that have prevented online shopping for groceries from taking off, such as costly deliveries and the small range of available ...
smart cosmos shows how living product data connects the real world to the digital world. ...
NCR, a company known for making the lives of both retailers and customers easier, has been investing a lot of work in a study called “The unified commerce landscape”. We are speaking to Jessica Bryant to learn more about this study. ...
This is made possible by the "connected store". Guillaume Portier from SES-imagotag Deutschland GmbH explains how it works. ...
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc. and its parent organization, Toshiba TEC Corporation (TTEC), will showcase a broad variety of retail solutions in Hall 6, Stand C41 during EuroShop, the world’s No. 1 retail trade fair, held 5 – 9 ...
The report “Europe Cross-Border B2C E-Commerce 2017” reveals key trends and perspectives of cross-border online retail in this region, citing multiple market statistics, forecasts and consumer surveys. One of the key findings of the ...
Starbucks is taking the next step toward evolving the digital customer experience by launching voice ordering capabilities within the Starbucks mobile iOS app and the popular Amazon Alexa platform. These features are an extension of Starbucks ...
One of the special charms about the lagoon city of Venice is its many channels, or canals, both small and big. Innumerable bridges connect them to an open labyrinth of water, as well as traditional streets. With so many different shopping channels ...
Even though the industry has been talking about omni-channel for years, many retailers still find it challenging to implement omni-channel strategies. They struggle to get full transparency across all channels with a single view of customer, ...
Amid a seismic shift in how U.S. consumers shop, retailers are vying for time on their customers’ screens across all their devices — before, during and after a purchase. That is according to "The State of Retailing Online 2017: Key ...
Brick-and-mortar retail will continue to score with customers with digital services for consulting, purchase and delivery. With new and intelligent concepts, smaller stores also give large competitors ranging from Amazon to Zalando a run for their ...
A grocery store is so much more than a place to buy food. It can also be a bank, a pharmacy, a postal office, a restaurant, and so on. At the same time, customers are increasingly buying their groceries online and in many places, they are starting ...
Slower, but continued growth of online retail in Japan is the prediction in a new publication from Hamburg-based yStats.com, "Japan B2C E-Commerce Sales Forecasts: 2016 to 2020." The report combines information from reliable primary ...
Local commerce approaches are a dime a dozen these days. Yet none of them are effective enough to where brick-and-mortar retailers actually benefit from them. Patrick Schulte of billiton is someone who has recognized this and created Lokaso, a new ...
Retail Pro International has joined the SAP PartnerEdge program as a partner that designs, develops and builds software integrated with SAP solutions. Through its participation in the program, it is now announcing the availability of Retail ...
Turkey's B2C E-Commerce market is the second largest in Eastern Europe, and is also among the fastest growing, according to the new market report by yStats.com. Internet penetration in the country was barely at 50 percent of the population last ...
The concept of cross-border e-commerce can interpreted in a broad or narrow sense: Broadly, the cross-border e-commerce refers to the cross-border import and export trade activities in which the transactions are concluded by the transaction ...
E-commerce makes things hard for brick-and-mortar retailers. To improve the customer churn rate, various local commerce approaches have been developed to connect brick-and-mortar businesses to the internet and vice versa. The concepts range from ...
Boston-based e-commerce agency Accorin and Orlando, FL-based Mattress1 have completed a comprehensive redesign and technology overhaul of the company’s website. The new website, which includes a new user interface, online catalog, mobile ...
Market Research Hub (MRH) has recently announced the addition of a new research report about the clothing and footwear retailing in Brazil to its repository. The research report, titled “Clothing & Footwear Retailing in Brazil ...
Facebook, WhatsApp etc. extensively influence the way we communicate. Thanks to the activation of messaging services for companies, they will most likely also change online retail in the long run. While one-to-many communication was the common way ...
A retail technology platform that enables customers to shop online with their local store associates, today announces online shoppers can now shop directly with their local big box retailer through the first-of-its-kind platform, Salesfloor ...
Driving e-money, cybersecurity and overcoming barriers for cross-border trade are among the topics to be discussed by more than 20 industry experts – including Amazon, Juniper Networks, Twitter and Bitcoin Indonesia representatives – ...
The “Splender Online Shopping Behavior Survey” highlights consumers’ desire to save money while shopping online but lack of knowledge on different ways to do so, including coupons and cash back sites. The national survey ...
Mirakl announced the results of a new study, titled “Retailers Must Seize The Marketplace Opportunity,” conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Mirakl and ChannelAdvisor. The survey evaluates the success of Marketplace ...
Juniper’s Commerce & Fintech research provides the most comprehensive and progressive analysis of the digital commerce market. The new research Online Payment Fraud: Key Vertical Strategies & Management 2016-2020, provides ...
Raley’s Family of Fine Stores has partnered with Unata, the award-winning leader in 1-to-1 Omni-Commerce solutions, to launch an improved web and mobile eCommerce platform, E-Cart. The new system will replace Raley’s current online ...
Raley’s Family of Fine Stores has partnered with Unata, the award-winning leader in 1-to-1 Omni-Commerce solutions, to launch an improved web and mobile eCommerce platform, E-Cart. The new system will replace Raley’s current ...
ProFlowers ranks highest among online flower retailers for a second consecutive year, performing well across all seven factors, according to the J.D. Power 2016 Online Flower Retailer Satisfaction Report.
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