NoshList, an app-based restaurant waitlist service, said on Tuesday (Feb. 10) that it’s changing its name to Waitlist Me — in large part because it’s no longer being used just by restaurants. “Even when Waitlist Me was focused primarily on restaurants, smart businesses in other...
Facebook’s new features that make it a bit easier for users to sell items represent a minor social commerce update. But they’re also a return to an old challenge: how to challenge Craigslist as the king of online classified ads, according to Bloomberg News. The...
Googling the phrase “the fate of physical retail,” will not tell one much about the fate of physical retail – though it will give one a fairly good insight into what the chatterati were all in agreement about vis a vis retail at any given...
Despite all the pressure that brick-and-mortar retailers are feeling from online and mobile commerce, physical stores are still the primary place shoppers turn to buy things, according to an annual consumer survey by PwC. The “Total Retail: Retailers and the Age of Disruption” report found...
Smartphones’ share of online retail sales jumped 50 percent in 2014, and mobile continues to top retailers’ marketing priority lists, according to a new report from Forrester Research. The 2015 State of Retailing Online study from Forrester and the National Retail Federation’s Shop.org reported that...
Are banks ready to hone in on mobile offers delivered via beacons? Beacon network Mobiquity is hoping that’s the case, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. Last week, Mobiquity announced a deal with app provider Relevant Solutions that would add location-based offers, coupons and targeted advertising to...
Wendy’s is looking to payments as a way to pull customers in and keep them returning. The fast-food chain is installing a standardized point-of-sale system in more than 2,600 locations to use as a mobile marketing platform, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. The common POS system,...
Beacons, it turns out, aren’t just for the big kids. The Niemann Foods supermarket chain is putting iBeacons in all 45 of its County Market stores across Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, according to Mobile Commerce Daily. That makes Niemann one of the first independent grocery...
Online shoppers in China are shifting to mobile, and that’s going to push retail e-commerce spending there past the $1 trillion mark in 2019, up from $307 billion in 2013, according to a new Forrester report. That’s likely to maintain Alibaba’s domination of Chinese digital...
