A decline in market share of the Sears retail chain, which includes both Sears and Kmart stores, is likely to boost the fortunes of competitors like Lowes and Home Depot on the hardware front, and electronics sales at competitors such as Best Buy and Walmart,...
Looks like Christmas came early this year for e-Commerce merchants. Research from ComScore shows that consumers spent $17.5 billion through e-Commerce channels during the first 23 days of November, which is an 11 percent increase over the same time period last year. ComScore’s numbers relate...
Amazon shopping will become a better curated, more community-driven consumer experience for the mobile audience with the launch of Canopy’s iOS app, TechCrunch reported. Canopy, which launched last year on Amazon and brought a more organized system to recommend items and provide tools to save...
Shopping has never been more convenient, quick and efficient since the rise of online. But despite the groundbreaking innovations of e-commerce in the last decade, one entrepreneur saw shortcomings: smartphones and tablets are too small for online shoppers to truly get a feel for what...
While Alibaba is trying to bring Black Friday madness to China, other parts of the world have already launched their holiday shopping, according to cross-border logistics service Borderfree. International holiday shopping from U.S. retailers effectively kicked off on Oct. 6, led by China, where U.S....
eBay.co.uk is speculating that Super Sunday, in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is going to be the most chaotic shopping day with 7M+ British bargain hunters ready to shop. eBay UK is predicting that shoppers will purchase over 1,800 gifts per minute from the...
Online shopping was the very platform that brick-and-mortar retailers feared would take away sales in physical stores, but there’s a new potential trend that’s bringing web shoppers back into stores. Instead of using the web to drive traffic out of stores, research from a University of...
Tech investment group Revolution Growth are putting a lot more green into the fast food salad company Sweetgreen. Or to be exact: $18.5 million worth of green, Business Insider reported. The company had previously invested $22 million into the restaurant chain. Revolution Growth, which is an investment fund from...
In the past, the start of the holiday rush began on a particular holiday: Black Friday. Or at least maybe that’s the way it used to be. Like back in the ’60s when the holiday was created to bring retailers out of the red to...
