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
PayPal and Ipsos released their third annual cross-border commerce report. The global insights research, which investigated the online domestic and cross-border shopping habits of more than 28,000 consumers in 32 countries, reveals new opportunities for merchants to expand their international Read more
The holidays may still seem a distant way out, but Americans are already crossing items off of their shopping lists. In fact, as of end-of-September, one-third (33%) of consumers say they have already started their holiday shopping, up significantly from Read more
The convenience and proliferation of year-round ecommerce sales and discounting is causing consumers to place much less emphasis on traditional Black Friday sales. In the second annual JDA Consumer Survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers conducted by JDA Software Group, Inc., Read more
Bluecore, an industry leading customer experience platform empowering marketers to take immediate action on behavioral and product data, today released a new report, “How Millennials Actually Want Brands to Engage with them” (link). Despite the assumption that most consumers – Read more
FatWallet.com and BFAds.net, known for breaking Black Friday’s biggest news, announced they are combining resources to bring holiday shoppers a one-stop solution for sorting through the best holiday sales and deals, including first access to Black Friday ad leaks. Experts Read more
Pitney Bowes, a global technology leader providing innovative products and solutions powering anywhere-to-everywhere commerce, announced the results of the third annual Pitney Bowes Global Online Shopping Survey, which finds that cross-border ecommerce has become prevalent among consumers around the world. Read more
More Americans like the concept of drone delivery than dislike it, but a large number have yet to decide. That’s just one finding of a new national survey administered by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG). With Read more
If you’re in retail, you can’t avoid hearing about the holiday shopping season. Etsy, always a good source of tips and suggestions, has begun advising sellers to prepare. PayPal has said September 30th kicks off the shopping season. And a recent report Read more
