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
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
Adobe released data on Thursday evening showing online sales figures and retail trends for Thanksgiving Day (between midnight and 5 pm Eastern). So far (as of 5 pm on November 24, 2016), Thanksgiving Day has brought in $1.15 Billion in Read more
Adobe continued this year’s Holiday Shopping analysis with a report on Wednesday showing a 3.5% increase in spending over last year – the data from Adobe shows that $25.59 billion has been spent during the holiday season thus far. The Read more
Visa says more consumers than ever will turn to online shopping, with 47% of consumers planning to complete their holiday shopping online. The following post was published on the Visa blog on Monday. According to a recent Visa study, online Read more
With the middle of the holiday season approaching and shoppers eager to take advantage of early promotions from retailers, more than half of consumers have already started making dents in their holiday gift lists, according to the annual mid-season survey Read more
Heading into Black Friday next week, Walmart and Amazon have the best prices online for the season’s hottest toys, according to research from global ecommerce analytics firm Profitero. On average, Walmart’s toy prices are seven percent lower than other retailers Read more
