Amazon announced Wednesday (Oct. 15) another step in merging its digital marketplace with the basics of a traditional store by offering U.K. customers the chance to pick up goods the same day of an online purchase. Pass my Parcel is a new service that will...
Curbside, the mobile shopping startup, is using $9.5 million in seed and Series A funding to help shoppers do same-day pickup, which is a hybrid between mobile shopping and in-store. Ideally, it combines the convenience of M-Commerce with the immediacy of in-store, with shoppers driving...
December 31, 2014
Customers who take advantage of big U.S. retailers’ “buy online, pick up in-store” services will save an average of only 96 seconds over simply buying the item in the store, according to a study by StellaService. However, online pickup did ensure that the desired item was available. The customer-service company’s test was small-scale — two […]
October 16, 2014
Amazon announced Wednesday (Oct. 15) another step in merging its digital marketplace with the basics of a traditional store by offering U.K. customers the chance to pick up goods the...
October 07, 2014
Curbside, the mobile shopping startup, is using $9.5 million in seed and Series A funding to help shoppers do same-day pickup, which is a hybrid between mobile shopping and in-store....