Ecommerce Industry News
Can you get it to me in time for Christmas? is a common question from buyers fielded by online merchants this time of year. Over the weekend, online discussion boards filled with sellers reporting expedited delivery […]
Online shoppers have spent $37.8 billion from their desktop computers for the first 45 days of the November-December 2013 holiday season, according to comScore, which said strong weekends helped online spending exceed expectations. For the […]
Merchants in the U.S. do a lot of importing of goods from other countries to sell online, but how much shopping do international buyers do on U.S. websites? Statistics from Borderfree suggest it’s growing at […]
Holiday shoppers spent $1.4 billion online from their desktops on Green Monday (December 9th), up 10 percent versus year ago. It represented the third heaviest online spending day of the holiday season-to-date. ComScore chairman Gian […]
There seems to be no shortage of nicknames for days during the holiday shopping season. Black Friday was all alone for years until Cyber Monday came along. Now it has Gray Thursday, aka Thanksgiving, and […]
Retailers have reached out to potential customers earlier in the year, ahead of the traditional shopping period, spent more on paid search, and competed heavily on price. That price competition, according to analysis from Susquehanna International […]
With Black Friday creep, brick-and-mortar stores weren’t the only retailers working on Thanksgiving Day. Endicia, whose online postage service helps online merchants ship their ecommerce orders via the U.S. Postal Service, found shipping volume was up […]
The Monday following Thanksgiving, known as Cyber Monday, is traditionally one of the busiest online shopping days, and this year, research firm comScore said desktop sales (not including mobile) grew 18% over last year to […]
It’s Cyber Monday, and we’re wrapping up the most hyped holiday-shopping weekend of the season, with Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Small Business Saturday behind us. By many accounts, it was a good holiday weekend for […]
While eBay got people nervous last month when it announced a cautious outlook for the holiday season, research firm comScore came out with a healthy forecast for US online spending on Tuesday, reporting an expected 14% year-over-year growth, or […]