Online shoppers spent a record $1.735 billion on Cyber Monday 2013, 18% over the same day last year, but the season as a whole rose only 10% higher than last year to $42.8 billion, according to comScore numbers, which counts Read more
Research commissioned by Rogers Communications and conducted by Harris-Decima found that users of mobile devices are loathe to give them up – 28% of Canadians surveyed would be willing to skip their morning coffee in exchange for anytime, anywhere internet Read more
Not happy with the presents you received for Christmas? This year, Amazon is again joining eBay in making entreaties to customers to sell their unwanted gifts on its marketplace. Surprised? This is actually Amazon’s fourth year of post-holiday marketing to consumer shoppers. Read more
The retail websites of Lowe’s, Target and Best Buy have done the best job of providing a good customer experience when it comes to product returns, according to a new study by Qubit. The company studied ten top retail websites Read more
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 requests from holiday shoppers – Read more
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 first time ever, the most Read more
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 a fast pace thanks to Read more
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 Fulgoni noted that the 10-percent Read more
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 Green Monday to keep it Read more
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 Group, (SIG) may have been Read more
