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
Online sellers are buzzing about a phenomenon called Facebook Pearl Parties, wondering if they can borrow the concept to market their own products and online stores. One seller wrote on the Etsy boards, “Recently there has been a ton of these Read more
Macy’s tried to dress up its announcement of a new strategy to drive profitable growth, but reporters zeroed in on the news that retail chain would close a hundred stores. The news came Thursday after its earnings release in which Read more
Return rates vary by product category – clothing and accessories have a notoriously high rate, for example. But do return rates vary by selling channel? The issue is an important one – no retailer likes to receive returned merchandise, whether Read more
Before the game Pokemon Go burst onto the screens of millions of smartphone owners, its developers at Niantic created Ingress, a location-based massively multiplayer online game. The real-life locations mapped for Ingress became part of Pokemon Go, which is why you are seeing Read more
