E-Commerce

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Shoppers like to make purchases quickly, especially when using their phones. When pages are slow to load, they miss out — and so do retailers. Speed has a well-documented correlation with conversion rate: the faster your site, the more visitors will convert. Pages can be slow to load for a lot of reasons, including third-party…

Shoppers like to make purchases quickly, especially when using their phones. When pages are slow to load, they miss out — and so do retailers. Speed has a well-documented correlation with conversion rate: the faster your site, the more visitors will convert. Pages can be slow to load for a lot of reasons, including third-party […]

Over the last several months, the retail industry has closely watched what the federal government would determine to be an appropriate sales tax collection approach for remote sellers. While several bills are still pending at the federal level, Amazon.com, the granddaddy of e-commerce, just made the jump to finalize the collection and remittance of sales and…

Wal-Mart said its recently launched startup investment arm, Store No. 8, has hired Jenny Fleiss as the chief executive of its first portfolio company. Fleiss will run code eight, a startup that will develop personalized, one-to-one shopping experiences. Fleiss is the co-founder and former head of business development of Rent the Runway, a designer fashion rental…

The digital marketplace has made it increasingly easy for customers to find the lowest possible price. When price is the only difference between two products, the decision is simple. However, that's rarely the case. With lower prices often come more aggravating experiences. As many bargain hunters quickly find, you get what you pay for. Customers…

While there are some exceptional brands that practice social responsibility, when it comes to the environment, the retail industry in general doesn’t have a great reputation — and for good reason. According to the American Forest and Paper Association, the U.S. uses about 68 million trees to produce 17 billion catalogs and 65 billion pieces…

In the biggest e-commerce acquisition in history, PetSmart has agreed to purchase pet food and product site Chewy.com for $3.35 billion. Chewy.com has been one of the fastest-growing e-commerce sites, registering nearly $900 million in revenue last year — only its fifth in operation. This deal is bigger than Wal-Mart’s acquisition of Jet.com for $3.3…

In episode 88 of Total Retail Talks, Jennie Pastor, CEO of Kavador, an online marketplace for curated fine jewelry, tells us about how the company is personalizing the customer experience, and what impact that is having on sales. Pastor also offers her advice for other retailers looking to bring personalization to the online shopping experience.

Almost every week it seems as though another retailer announces brick-and-mortar store closures, or there are new bankruptcy filings making headlines. With more and more people turning to technology in their everyday lives — often to the detriment of in-person shopping — capturing sales via e-commerce has never been more important for retailers. E-commerce transactions…