Ecommerce Industry News
The 2014 online holiday shopping season was very strong overall, according to research firm comScore, with a 15% increase in spending. “Spending slightly exceeded our fairly optimistic forecast heading into the season,” said comScore chairman […]
Online holiday shopping hit $48.3 billion to date, a 15% increase over corresponding days last year, according to comScore, which released data on the first 51 days of the November-December 2014 holiday season. The most […]
Ecommerce spending for the holiday period is up 15% from last year so far, according to comScore. The research firm examined ecommerce spending for the first 44 days of the November-December 2014 holiday season (ending […]
Cyber Monday shopping through desktops was up 17% over last year and was the only day to ever surpass $2 billion in sales, according to comScore. The holiday season as a whole is up 16% over […]
The National Retail Federation caused a stir when it released its annual Thanksgiving weekend and Cyber Monday consumer surveys. NRF’s Matthew Shay took fingers to keyboard to explain that while there was a lot of focus on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Amazon UK predicts the biggest day ever for online shopping will be Cyber Monday, which falls on December 1st this year. But Black Friday, November 28th, is catching up. Last year, its shoppers ordered over […]
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 […]