DoorDash, in its ongoing effort to find and create new occasions for on-demand delivery, is increasing its gifting options. The aggregator announced Thursday (June 8) a partnership with Edible, the company known for its giftable arrangements of fruits and sweets, to offer on-demand delivery from nearly 1,000 of...
1-800-FLOWERS.COM has acquired SmartGift to expand its consumer and corporate gifting capabilities. The acquisition will add the functionality of SmartGift’s intelligent gifting platform to 1-800-FLOWERS.COM’s family of brands focused on providing gifts, the companies said on Tuesday (May 2). “With the addition of SmartGift, Inc. to the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. portfolio,...
Winter gifting season kicks off next month with Black Friday on Nov. 26 and Cyber Monday on Nov. 29, and there’s a growing sense that last-mile delivery experiences will be more decisive this year in terms of meeting shoppers’ expectations — or falling short — as seen...
Some disavow clutter; others enjoy simplicity. Either way, more Americans are said to be holding a quiet position against materialism. More consumers are creating their own gifts, opting for experiences, gifting and receiving used goods, asking for charitable contributions, or asking for nothing during the...
November 24, 2017
Giving good gifts is hard work. It’s also expensive. According to Deloitte’s 2017 holiday spending survey, the average American consumer will spend $1,226 over the holiday shopping season, approximately $430 of which will be spent on around 14 gifts. That is, unless that consumer happens to be a member of a household bringing in more than $100,000 per year — in which […]
April 24, 2017
Retailers say they lose out to Amazon for many reasons. One of them is their inability to enable last minute gifting. Loop Commerce CEO Roy Erez tells Karen Webster how...
February 20, 2017
Didn’t get what you wanted on Valentine’s Day? Then, according to Loop Commerce, surprisingly, you are among the mere 12 percent of consumers who received a gift and decided they...
October 18, 2016
What can be easier than giving a gift card online? How about getting consumers to buy them in the first place. In the latest PYMNTS Data Drivers installment, Gerry Gilbert,...
December 04, 2024
Digital gift card platform On Me has launched a five-year partnership with Mastercard. The company announced the collaboration Wednesday (Dec. 4), along with the news that it had raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding, money it will use to expand its retailer partnerships. “Advancing the industry from magnetic swipe technology pioneered in the 1980s to […]
May 02, 2023
1-800-FLOWERS.COM has acquired SmartGift to expand its consumer and corporate gifting capabilities. The acquisition will add the functionality of SmartGift’s intelligent gifting platform to 1-800-FLOWERS.COM’s family of brands focused on providing gifts, the...
December 15, 2019
Some disavow clutter; others enjoy simplicity. Either way, more Americans are said to be holding a quiet position against materialism. More consumers are creating their own gifts, opting for experiences,...
December 21, 2018
Changes to Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines have shown that the company will soon allow iOS users to gift in-app purchases. “Apps may enable gifting of items that are eligible...
