Amazon has launched a new online store for up-and-coming brands, including some that have had their 15 minutes of fame on the television show “Shark Tank.” The new Amazon Exclusives store will feature merchandise that’s only available there or in the online or brick-and-mortar stores...
Community powered digital retailer Joinem announced March 10 that it has raised $5 million in investment funds and has officially its public website. Joinem is a social media website that focuses on “collective buying,” where products are shared among the website’s users in an attempt to...
Fashion retailer Dooney & Bourke announced March 10 that it has shifted its digital commerce operations to Massachusetts-based cloud commerce solution provider Demandware in an attempt to enhance its online shopping processes. “Our online presence often serves as the first touchpoint with our brand, so we...
More and more Americans are using their mobile devices to access the Internet, while a higher percentage are visiting retail websites exclusively on their mobile phones, according to data from comScore. A report, published and analyzed by Internet Retailer, shows that nearly half of digital shoppers at America’s Top...
Elvis Presley and Apple Pay have two things in common: an ability to set the tastes of a generation of Americans, and a desperate need for “a little less conversation and a little more action.” Despite the fact that Apple Pay has managed to get...
7-Eleven announced on March 9 that it has added a rewards program known as 7Rewards, which will reward registered customers with a free drink after they purchase six drinks of any size, hot or cold. And yes, that does include Slurpees. To take advantage of the...
Indianapolis-based company Simon Property has launched a hostile bid to acquire rival Macerich for $22.4 billion. If the deal manages to go through, two of the U.S.’s three largest shopping mall operators would be combined into a single entity. That offer, which pencils out to...
Today, trade consists of two sales channels: physical stores and online.But what mobile wallet SEQR, provided by Seamless, sets out to do with Shop Spot is provide create a third sales channel — from every type of media. The feature targets merchants, brands and media,...
Another point-of-sale vendor has been hit by cyberthieves. NEXTEP Systems has confirmed that a breach exposed payment card data for cards used at the Zoup restaurant chain, which uses POS devices from NEXTEP, Krebs on Security reported. Payment card accounts used at “a large number”...
