Shopify sent us the following data from the Thanksgiving long holiday weekend showing the impact of holiday shopping on small sellers: Many people associate Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BF/CM) with big-box retailers, but SMBs (small and medium sized businesses) are heavily Read more
Every holiday season, there’s always one toy that is a must-have. Ebates, the cash back shopping site, broke down the most popular and hardest toys to get over the past few decades. Most popular for 2016 is the new NES Read more
Ace Hardware Corporation and The Grommet are pleased to announce a joint collaboration to bring the innovations of local Makers into Ace Hardware retail stores. Ace will debut its collaboration with The Grommet, the leading product launch platform for innovative Read more
PayPal Vice President of Global Merchant Product and Technology Arnold Goldberg published a post on the PayPal blog on Tuesday describing the company’s new mobile app for small businesses: Millions of businesses and entrepreneurs are gearing up for one of Read more
Amazon announced its best-ever holiday shopping weekend for devices – including a record-breaking Cyber Monday with Amazon device sales up more than 2x over last year and millions of devices sold. Echo Dot, Amazon Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Read more
eBay posted the following release to its corporate blog on Tuesday: The biggest holiday shopping days of the year have arrived, and data from eBay is revealing all of this season’s hottest trends. For example, we’re providing several unique ways Read more
A recent survey reveals that more Canadians are enjoying the added convenience that ecommerce provides, with 68 percent of respondents indicating that it is the fastest and most efficient way to shop for gifts during the holiday season. The survey Read more
WooCommerce customers in Australia will be the first in the world to take advantage of eBay Sync which allows retailers to quickly and easily list their products on eBay and then automatically sync inventory and orders back to their WooCommerce Read more
ComScore reported U.S. desktop retail ecommerce spending for the first 25 days of the November-December 2016 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $24.52 billion has been spent online, marking a 12-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. Thanksgiving Day Read more
Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2016 saw more shoppers than ever before make purchases on major retail sites according to insights from HookLogic – the pioneer of performance marketing for brands. Shoppers on Thanksgiving were up 16.1% and purchasers were up Read more
