Ecommerce Industry News
“It’s not too late to start selling on Walmart.com before the holidays,” Walmart advised merchants today, and cited research from eMarketer predicting 15.5% growth in online holiday sales this year. Etsy also issued a holiday-season […]
Holiday shopping may extend well into the New Year, according to survey findings from Pitney Bowes. In the face of supply chain disruption, US consumers are hopeful for discounts and increased inventory following the holidays, […]
Retailers and merchants lose a lot of money due to cyber crime, and the National Retail Federation (NRF) wants to get the word out to consumers: shop safe. In a post this week, the NRF […]
Adobe is out with a report on how holiday shopping is shaping up based on actual online transactions. What’s most striking is the increase in stockouts this year, but probably not surprising to most people […]
A local photographer filled a gap in Cyber weekend holiday events last year by launching a national movement to support artists and artisans. “Artists Sunday” is sandwiched between Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, […]
PayPal is giving away $20 million in a holiday sweepstakes to encourage people to pay for items using its payment service. The PayPal Holiday Sweepstakes comes amid the holiday shopping season, but the holiday-messaging was […]
We’re nearly 2 weeks into the all-important fourth quarter, and as the Auction Professor writes in his column in today’s issue, it’s time for all hands on deck. Amazon kicked off holiday sales last week, […]
Shoppers weren’t the only ones spending more on Black Friday. Digital advertisers spent 3.1 times more on Black Friday on ecommerce channels than they did in the period leading up to Thanksgiving (November 1-25, 2020). […]
Merchants who host their store on Shopify rang up a total $2.4 billion in global sales on Black Friday (November 27, 2020), according to the ecommerce platform. Shopify’s 2020 Black Friday data is based on […]
eBay executives in the US and UK shared information about what’s hot this year going into the Black Friday – Cyber Monday weekend. Jordan Sweetnam, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Americas Market at […]