
E-Commerce

Amazon.com said this past Cyber Monday was its biggest shopping day ever, beating out this year's Prime Day, the sales holiday the company held in July. Fortune reports that while Amazon has self-proclaimed Cyber Monday to be its highest selling day, the company has yet to release any numbers supporting this claim. This past week,…
While Amazon Prime Day set new sales records this year, the retail behemoth quietly set another record for superior web performance. Even with traffic loads ballooning to 20 percent larger than normal, Amazon’s desktop site performance shined, as did its mobile web performance, which beat out competitors which weren’t even having sales that day. Like…
Based on Adobe Analytics data, a record $6.59 billion was spent online by the end of Cyber Monday, an increase of 16.8 percent year-over-year (YoY), making it the largest online shopping day in history and nearly a billion dollars more than last year at $5.6 billion. Mobile set a new record with its first $2 billion day. Smartphones have become the de facto device…
In a mad dash to beat sales goals from the year prior, retailers across the globe are revving the engines of their holiday strategies. According to research conducted by Monetate, 67 percent of companies that don’t hit their multiyear Black Friday average will fail to hit their multiyear rest of the holiday season average. Additionally,…
Macy's confirmed on Friday that it was suffering a credit card slowdown on one of the busiest and most important shopping days of the year. That trouble was resolved by Friday evening. "We have fully resolved today's system issues. We highly value our customers and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience today's system slowdown may have…
A record $5.03 billion was spent online by the end of Black Friday, an increase of 16.9 percent compared to last year, according to Adobe Digital Insights, which measures 80 percent of online transactions at 100 major U.S. retailers. Adobe also reported that during the holiday season to date (Nov. 1 – Nov. 24), consumers…
Black Friday e-commerce sales have tailed $640 million as of 10:00 a.m. on Black Friday, up an impressive 18.4 percent from the prior year. Mobile shopping is hitting record highs as well. However, brick-and-mortar stores are seeing a slow start to the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season. In talking to shoppers, it has…
U.S. consumers spent more than $1.52 billion online by Thanksgiving evening, and more shoppers went to stores this year after two weak holiday seasons as retailers opened their doors early on the eve of Black Friday. At the start of the holiday shopping season consumer spending rose 16.8 percent year-over-year until 5 p.m. ET on Thursday,…
Every year, retailers gear up for what's essentially their Super Bowl, Oscars, Emmys and Grammys rolled into one: the holiday season. Pundits make predictions. Analysts run forecasts. And, of course, every industry player has been plotting strategy for months, looking to beat last year’s numbers and earn kudos for standing out in an extremely crowded…
Every year, retailers gear up for what’s essentially their Super Bowl, Oscars, Emmys and Grammys rolled into one: the holiday season. Pundits make predictions. Analysts run forecasts. And, of course, every industry player has been plotting strategy for months, looking to beat last year’s numbers and earn kudos for standing out in an extremely crowded […]