With high-tech purchases expected to account for a major portion of consumer holiday spending this year, UPS has launched a 2016 UPS How to Click with High-Tech Online Shoppers study to help retailers gain insights into how to win with Read more
ComScore reported holiday season U.S. retail ecommerce spending from desktop computers for the first 28 days of the November-December 2016 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $29.7 billion has been spent online, marking a 12-percent increase versus the corresponding days Read more
The USPS published its 2016 Holiday Guide to Deliver Cheer guide with advice for shippers and information about its busiest shipping days: Americans take time during the holidays to share gratitude with loved ones and friends around the world. So Read more
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois today urged Illinois residents who send holiday gifts internationally to follow important tips to avoid being scammed and paying expensive fees when packages are “lost,” Read more
Squarespace’s Margaret Wang published the following post on the Squarespace blog on Thursday (you can also find the news on PayPal’s corporate blog): Today, we’re excited to announce the beta launch of another payment method in checkout for Squarespace Online Stores: Read more
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
