Online sales were up on Thanksgiving as more people find it acceptable to shop on the major American holiday, but the average order size fell compared to last year. IBM’s Holiday Benchmark Data said Thanksgiving Day sales rose 14.3% compared Read more
Shopping on Thanksgiving used to be unheard of, but it’s growing in popularity. According to research from vendor Custora, online shopping was up almost 20% yesterday compared to Thanksgiving 2013, driven by mobile shopping and promotions. But despite the push Read more
Each year, retail data-nerds rely on research firm comScore to see how the holiday shopping season is shopping up for online sellers. They got their first fix with a new comScore report showing sales for the first 3 weeks of Read more
It’s not just Christmas decorations hitting the stores earlier. Holiday shopping behaviors have shown a tendency in recent years to shift to much earlier times than they ever did before the rise of the internet and ecommerce. But not only Read more
Smaller merchants who run their own online stores saw high growth in July, August and September compared to the same period a year ago, according to an analysis conducted by Bigcommerce. Growth was aided by back-to-school shoppers, the company found. Read more
Industries that rely on direct sales representatives feel the challenge of online commerce more acutely than most. Ignoring the internet when competitors embrace it could prove disastrous. It’s a situation that iconic cosmetics brand Avon wants to avoid. Online sales Read more
More people will start their online shopping for holiday gifts earlier this year in order to ensure on-time delivery, according to a recent survey of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted by ORC International for Pitney Bowes in August 2014. In fact, half of Read more
Apple announced a groundbreaking new operating system on Tuesday. iOS 8 will be available starting September 17 to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users as a free software update with new Messages and Photos features and a new Health app. Read more
It’s no secret that Apple will soon release a new operating system, iOS 8 – it already set up a page where it previews some of the features. But many are wondering whether the new iPhone 6, widely believed to be Read more
New data from comScore shows mobile shopping is helping boost total ecommerce spending numbers, despite the fact that mobile commerce as a percentage of total digital commerce is only about 11%. Referencing the second-quarter 2014 period, the research firm said, Read more
