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Shorter shopping season cuts into online sales, comScore says
December 27, 2013
E-commerce spending from desktop computers is up 10 percent over a year ago, according to comScore. Shoppers spent $42.8 million during the first 52 days of…
read nowLate flurry of online sales nails UPS, retailers
December 26, 2013
A number of large retailers that promised to deliver goods before Dec. 25, including Amazon, Walmart and Kohl's, missed some of their deadlines, and the finger…
read nowUK retailers could see a very green Christmas Day online
December 23, 2013
U.K. shoppers waiting till the 11th hour and 59 minutes could result in a record-breaking online Christmas Day shopping splurge, with 117 million visits to…
read nowEyeing omnichannel growth, Macy's to build major new fulfillment center
December 18, 2013
Macy's has announced it will build a major new direct-to-consumer fulfillment center near Owasso, a city in Tulsa County, Okla., to support continued sales…
read nowKohl's, JCPenney, Nordstrom top Google's 2013 most-searched apparel brands and retailers list
December 17, 2013
Google's Zeitgeist feature, which lets users browse dozens of different interactive lists that detail online activity, offers up this year-end list of the…
read nowSelfridges takes product photography operation in-house
December 17, 2013
Selfridges has taken its entire online photography operation in-house to improve customer experience and boost the efficiency of its imaging process, the…
read nowHalf of holiday shoppers plan to wrap up lists online, highest in NRF survey history
December 17, 2013
According to NRF's latest holiday survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, nearly half (49.9 percent) of holiday shoppers indicate they plan to do…
read nowGoogle Shopping exec on Diane von Furstenberg, using Hangouts for online retailing
December 16, 2013
At the recent launch event for the fourth-annual PSFK Future of Retail Report, Laura Jones, product marketing manager for Google Shopping, spoke about a recent…
read nowBritish jeweler Beaverbrooks launches new e-commerce site
December 16, 2013
Hybris software, an SAP company, has announced that U.K. high-street jeweler Beaverbrooks has launched its new e-commerce website, www.beaverbrooks.co.uk…
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Why Amazon is droning on about new delivery methods
by Doug Stephens — President, Retail Prophet Consulting
Analysts and consumers alike are becoming increasingly accustomed to Amazon's announcements of bold and daring new projects. Most recently it was the Jeff…
read nowStudy reveals which online retailers did best on Cyber Week across the 'three screens'
December 12, 2013
Keynote, a provider of mobile and Web cloud testing and monitoring, just wrapped up its analysis of Cyber Week — the outshoot of Cyber Monday — as online…
read nowTarget unveils online 'Awesome Shop'
December 12, 2013
Target today unveiled its "Awesome Shop" subsite, a curated collection of products that all have a few things in common: They've all been pinned on Pinterest…
read nowInstacart brings same-day grocery delivery service to Boston
December 12, 2013
Same-day grocery delivery service Instacart, which currently operates in San Francisco and Chicago, announced today that it has expanded into the Boston market.
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Anonymity, privacy and onions: How Tor might impact online retailers
The anonymous browsing protocol raises real concerns for anyone accepting payments over the Internet.
read nowFashion retailer Cato launches e-commerce presence
December 11, 2013
Cato, a specialty retailer of women's fashions and accessories, has made its debut in the world of online shopping with the launch of its first ever e-commerce…
read nowStudy shows that Amazon.com makes more than 2.5 million price changes every day
December 11, 2013
Profitero, a provider of online competitor pricing data, reports that Amazon.com is implementing more than 2.5 million price changes on a daily basis in its…
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 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 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…
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Retail Roundtable: Amazon and USPS Sunday shipping
by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance
Our experts weigh in on possible ramifications of this very big retail partnership.
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