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Research: Physical stores still beat online for product information, experience
September 25, 2008
Internet Retailer: The E-tailing Group's 4th Annual Cross-channel Shopping study compared the experience of finding product information at multi-channel…
read nowOnline retailers wrestle with shipping discounts
September 24, 2008
Advertising Age: Retailers counting on online shopping to buoy sales in a tight economy are wrestling with a big problem: free shipping. In the coming…
read nowOpinion: Most loyalty programs use the wrong incentives
September 22, 2008
Wall Street Journal: The biggest problem with loyalty programs, according to two professors of management science, is that most retailers adopt a…
read nowOffice Depot adds online photo services
September 21, 2008
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Office Depot announced the launch of a new digital photo service with digital imaging market leaders Kodak and LifePics, allowing…
read nowSTUDY: Online retail tough, but cohesive experience still elusive
September 17, 2008
Investor's Business Daily: A jittery economy doesn't seem to be unnerving the nation's online retailers. But one dark cloud inside the silver lining is the…
read nowOffer employees $2K to quit? It works for Zappos
September 17, 2008
Tech.Blorge: Zappos, the enormous online shoe and accessory retailer on track to top $1 billion in revenue this year, has an unusual strategy to retain the…
read nowSHOP.com adds merchants to its site search
September 16, 2008
LAS VEGAS — SHOP.com, a destination-comparison shopping engine designed for women, has added merchant partners Land of Nod, Perry Ellis, Chiasso and Office…
read nowOnline retailers get help with conversions
September 15, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — Customer reviews and social-merchandising-solutions company PowerReviews and organic search solutions provider YourAmigo have announced a…
read nowSephora.com launches 'Ratings & Reviews' online feedback
September 4, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — Sephora U.S. launched an innovative new "Ratings & Reviews" function from Bazaarvoice for each of the thousands of products sold on…
read nowWeb companies dismantling language barriers in online retail
September 2, 2008
Financial Times: Retailers such as Walmart and Home Depot advertise to America's Hispanic consumers on Spanish-language television. Some, such as JC Penney…
read nowOnline shopping experience tweaked with analytics software
September 1, 2008
New Brunswick Business Journal: Shoppers who are wary of going online may soon find the experience less daunting. Many retailers are using analytics software…
read nowGaps closing between consumer multichannel expectations, retailer readiness
August 25, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc. company, today released the results of a recent survey that shows that the gaps are closing between…
read nowShop.org Summit will feature e-commerce 'critic's corner'
August 24, 2008
WASHINGTON — The real Siskel and Roeper may not be present at Shop.org's Annual Summit next month, but their infamous thumbs up/thumbs down rating will still…
read nowAFS launches interactive private-label promos
August 21, 2008
Progressive Grocer: Western Family, the private-label brand featured at the 400 members of Associated Food Stores, launched a new marketing campaign that uses…
read nowCasual Male launches big-and-tall social networking site
August 18, 2008
DMNews: Multichannel apparel merchant Casual Male Retail Group Inc. has launched BoldXL, a social networking site for young big-and-tall consumers. The niche…
read nowSocial media proves important for back-to-school shopping
August 18, 2008
NEW YORK — JupiterResearch has found that an increasing number of retailers are using social media to target teens and young adults during the 200…
read nowNew media, new opportunities
August 17, 2008
Blogs, forums, e-mail level the playing field among retailers.
read nowNeighborhood retail making a comeback
August 17, 2008
Springfield Business Journal: During the past 50 years, the commercial development industry has followed rooftop demographics as they moved farther out on the…
read nowCircuit City expands social commerce platform
August 11, 2008
RICHMOND, Va. — Circuit City announced renewed and expanded alliances with ConsumerReports.org, Popular Photography and Sound & Vision magazines and the…
read nowTraditional retailers gain online ground
August 10, 2008
Chicago Tribune: Retailers that operate both brick-and-mortar stores and Web sites accounted for 50 percent of e-commerce sales in the second quarter of 2008…
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