What do you get when you bring eight payments, retail and commerce executives together to debate whether omnichannel is the future of retail? A consensus that things on the omnichannel front need to move much faster. Don Kingsborough, retail pioneer and payments innovator, and eBay’s Mark...
Smartphones now account for 34 percent of digital commerce shopping traffic and 16 percent of all orders, according to a report by online-commerce technology vendor Demandware. That’s up from 23 percent of traffic and 10 percent of orders from smartphones a year ago, the Demandware...
Starbucks will begin testing coffee delivery in Seattle and New York City later this year with two very different pilot programs, the coffee company announced at its annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday (March 18). In Seattle, deliveries will be made by same-day delivery platform Postmates....
Amazon is telling online-merchant customers that it will shut down its Amazon Webstore service on July 1, 2016, eCommerce newsletter Tamebay reported on Thursday (March 19). The Webstore platform, which enables retailers to create and run online shops with a minimal amount of technical complications,...
Target will pay a total of $10 million to customers who were victimized by the retail chain’s massive payment data breach in 2013, the Associated Press reported. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson granted preliminary approval on Thursday (March 19) for the settlement to a federal...
Indian eCommerce giant Flipkart is preparing to shift its business to an Alibaba-like marketplace model, unnamed Flipkart suppliers have told the Times of India’s Economic Times. That move would help untangle Flipkart’s messy business structure in advance of the company’s expected IPO on a U.S....
Amazon’s one-hour delivery service Prime Now has arrived in “select zip codes” in Miami and Baltimore, the eCommerce giant announced on Thursday (March 19). Amazon launched the service for its $99-a-year Prime members in New York City in December, with initial deliveries in only a...
U.S. consumers already love online shopping, and they’ve only got more love to give in 2015. A recent BDO USA survey shows that 78 percent of chief financial officers in the retail industry anticipate that their online sales will increase in the current year. Taking into...
PayPal Here has finally landed on Microsoft’s Surface. The payments giant’s card-swipe device is now available with an app that runs under Windows 8.1 and a suite of small-business management software, the companies said on Wednesday (March 18). The Windows version, which the two companies...
