Internet Retailer magazine is accepting nominations for its annual Excellence Awards that will be presented during the IRCE conference in Chicago in June. The Internet Retailer Excellence Awards, now in their second year, recognize the achievements and innovations of e-retailers, Read more
UPS has designated January 6, 2016, National Returns Day when it expects customers to ship more than a million packages back to retailers on that day alone. Not exactly a holiday for merchants to celebrate. By the end of the Read more
Amazon Prime helped the marketplace set records for its 21st holiday shopping season. More than three million members worldwide joined Prime during the third week of December alone, and over 200 million more items shipped for free with Prime this Read more
The reach of the Star Wars brand and the scope of the marketing power of its new owner Disney proved as inescapable as a Death Star tractor beam. Variety reported a $528 million global opening for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the biggest Read more
Pinterest rolled out a new shopping feature on Thursday. Users of the social networking site who save a “buyable pin” on one of their Pinterest “bulletin boards” will be notified if the item featured in that pin drops in price. Read more
Online shoppers made history this year by spending a billion dollars a day from desktop computers for nine consecutive days beginning on Thanksgiving Day, the longest streak of billion-dollar days ever, according to comScore. This past Monday was Green Monday, one Read more
Ever wonder exactly how marketplaces like eBay and Amazon performed on key holiday shopping dates? Companies are generally stingy with their data, so a new report from ecommerce platform 3dcart provides insight into how small companies performed on Cyber Monday by revealing Read more
It’s always difficult to know how smaller merchants are performing due to a lack of data, that’s what makes reports from ecommerce platforms like Bigcommerce uniquely interesting, especially around the holiday shopping season. Tens of thousands of small and midsized Read more
Some people might be skeptical about the hype around Black Friday given the fact it feels more like a week or more of sales rather than one day. ComScore data shows that shoppers continue to like shopping on the day after Thanksgiving – and Read more
A new survey of 1,000 shoppers says best prices are the deciding factor whether shopping in-store or online – although selection and positive past experience also play a large role. The Market Track survey also found that the majority of respondents planned Read more
