As home delivery slowly loses its lock on getting online orders into the hands of consumers, the pickup economy is gaining, as we find in new research. Analyzing trends across six nations and over 13,300 consumers, “The 2023 Global Digital Shopping Index: U.S. Edition,” a...
Independent grocers may trail behind industry giants in digital availability, but possibly not for long. The Context Small grocers are significantly less likely than major players to offer options for online pickup and delivery, but as eGrocery demand only continues to grow, many are either...
Free shipping can be key to securing customer loyalty, but grocers struggle with the cost. The Context Shipping perishable foods and/or delivering them via courier can be extremely costly. As such, though grocers know that free shipping can be a powerful draw, many have determined...
In the competitive D2C space, Mark Wendell Tea has found history makes all the difference. In an interview with PYMNTS, Hartley E. Johnson, co-owner of the Mark T. Wendell Tea Company, explained that the business has been selling direct to consumer (D2C) via catalogs and...
Still considered an emerging collection of economies, Latin America has nevertheless taken a lead in aspects of the digital transformation of payments, in some ways pulling ahead of developed nations including the United States in areas like instant and real-time payments. That’s meaningful to residents...
PartsBase has launched an eCommerce marketplace for the aviation industry powered by Oro. The new PartsStore platform is built on OroMarketplace, Oro’s end-to-end digital marketplace solution, the companies said in a Thursday (March 9) press release emailed to PYMNTS. “Thanks to Oro’s robust and highly...
The phrase “seamless checkout” has been used so much to describe so many things that the meaning has gotten foggy. But given what’s at stake, this murkiness is far from optimal for consumers and merchants, and it’s the kind of thing Deepak Sharma, vice president...
Zalando aims to keep growing even as the economic backdrop remains challenging. Over the past year, the online platform serving the fashion and lifestyle market in Europe has grown its number of active customers by 6% to 51 million and doubled the number of members...
Shef is expanding its chef-to-consumer marketplace across the United States. Cooks from anywhere in the country can now apply to sell their homemade food on the platform, Shef said in a Wednesday (March 1) press release. Launched in 2019 in the Bay Area, Shef now operates...
