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Lamborghini dealership accepts Bitcoin for car purchase
December 5, 2013
In what might lend a small bit of legitimacy to the controversial digital payment scheme, a Lamborghini dealership in Costa Mesa, Calif. announced yesterday…
read nowRobert Reich: Holiday bargains are hurting the country
December 5, 2013
Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and prolific author and filmmaker, has written a blog post in which he suggests the great…
read nowNRF applauds 'patent troll act'
December 5, 2013
The National Retail Federation today issued the following statement from Senior Vice President David French on House passage of H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act…
read nowNew report reveals frustrations of older shoppers
December 5, 2013
The latest report from Shoppercentric, an independent agency specializing in shopper research, has been launched today. The research entitled: "WindowOn…The…
read nowFood Lion unveils new store format
December 4, 2013
Food Lion is unveiling its new store format today at the grand reopening of its Union Street store in Concord, N.C. According to a press release, the format…
read nowMasterCard says electronics retailers were smart to open on Thanksgiving
December 4, 2013
In a blog post today, MasterCard announced that electronics retailers enjoyed a triple-digit increase in sale on Thanksgiving Day over last year. The post…
read nowAmerican Eagle, The Gap, TopShop ranked top mobile fashion retail apps
December 4, 2013
Plastic Mobile, a mobile marketing agency, announced today the findings from its new Mobile X Retail App Report, where a team of mobile experts examined the…
read nowUS holiday e-commerce projected to rise 15% this year
December 4, 2013
Retail consultancy eMarketer has released its forecasts for this holiday season for both the U.S. and the U.K.
read nowLUX Beauty Boutique rolls out in-aisle checkout app
December 4, 2013
Toronto-based company Digital Retail Apps announced the roll-out of its mobile app SelfPay at LUX Beauty Boutique in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. With SelfPay…
read nowSurvey: 77% of shoppers likely to purchase at least 1 digital gift card this holiday season
December 4, 2013
InComm, a prepaid product and transaction services company, has released research highlighting consumer shopping trends for purchasing digital and physical…
read nowVisa releases holiday online spend data, infographic
December 3, 2013
Visa has today released its e-commerce sales data from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. According to the company, e-commerce sales from all U.S. devices…
read nowTarget Canada's French-only self-checkouts cause controversy
December 3, 2013
A Target shopper in Montreal has called attention to the apparent lack of English on the retailer's self-checkout kiosks.
read nowFormer Sears CEO gives holiday predictions
December 3, 2013
Former Sears Canada chairman and CEO Mark Cohen, currently a professor at Columbia Business School, has released a set of predictions for the retail industry…
read nowMotorola offers apology, do-over on Cyber Monday promotion
December 3, 2013
Motorola's plan to offer a $150 discount on its Moto X smartphone turned out to be more popular than the company expected. Less than an hour after the sale…
read nowMobile Email Scorecard names the best retail email campaigns
December 3, 2013
LightningBuy, a single-click mobile checkout platform that lets merchants sell directly from email and social media posts, has announced the retailers with the…
read nowCyber Monday online sales up 20.6 percent over 2012
December 3, 2013
U.S. shoppers made Cyber Monday the biggest online shopping day in history with a 20.6 percent increase in online sales, according to the latest cloud-based…
read nowSurvey says shoppers were disappointed with Black Friday this year
December 2, 2013
According to the Christmas & Holiday Shopping Forecast released today by America's Research Group and Inmar, of those who shopped Black Friday weekend…
read nowHispanics shop more online than average Web user, shop earlier in holiday season
December 2, 2013
Experian Marketing Services, a provider of integrated consumer insights, targeting and cross-channel marketing, has released a new Hispanic shopping analysis…
read nowShopperTrak: Store traffic, sales up on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday
December 2, 2013
With the allure of deep discounts, "door-buster" promotions and extended store hours, shoppers visited more stores and spent more money across the days of…
read nowNRF: Number of Thanksgiving shoppers rose by 2M
December 2, 2013
More than 141 million unique shoppers have already or will have shopped by the end of the big Thanksgiving weekend, up from 139 million over the same time…
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