E-Commerce

Is Amazon.com about to shake up the online grocery market? According to the below infographic created by Retail Vision, the online retailer is taking its latest endeavor very seriously and is aiming to grab 2 percent of the U.K.’s £149 billion grocery market with fast delivery and innovative ordering services. Even as the big four…

Most Amazon.com shoppers love how the site immediately predicts shipping costs and delivery date for their purchases. As soon as shoppers click on a product, they see a message such as, “Want it Wednesday, Sept. 30 by 4 p.m.? Order in the next 11 minutes, six seconds.” What’s noteworthy is that Amazon does this up…

Amazon.com went down for some users on Thursday afternoon for approximately 20 minutes before being restored. Users trying to access the Amazon website as well as the mobile app at around 2:20 p.m. ET were greeted with error messages. During the outage, many users took to Twitter to vent their frustration.

The bourgeoning partnership between Whole Foods Market and Instacart is expanding. The upscale grocery chain and the unicorn delivery startup have been working together since 2014 to create a network of store locations enabling online ordering and same-day delivery. Today, the companies officially announced plans to expand their partnership and increase the number of Whole Foods…

From a revenue standpoint, what would you lose if your site was to go dark for 40 minutes? Where would your customers go? As we close the book on this past holiday season and look back on the e-commerce frenzy, I can’t help but reflect on this loss and how it might be avoided. To…

In this day and age, all retailers have websites. In fact, websites are integral to a retailer’s online business strategy, as the content that you put on your website can better help you sell to consumers. That said, anytime you have a website, you have content. And anytime you have content, you have bots. This…

How simple is your checkout process for customers? Is it an arduous task, or perhaps the opposite and everything is handled on a single page? This is a critical aspect of e-commerce that can’t be overlooked. A complicated checkout process could mean lost business. In fact, a recent study conducted by UPS found that 20…

Online sellers looking to source consumer goods at discount prices, take note. Sears has set up a liquidation marketplace to sell excess inventory and product returns from its Sears and Kmart retail stores and from its distribution centers and Internet platforms. The retailer set up Sears Kmart Overstock Auctions as the official B2B (business to business)…

Now that Amazon has its own private fashion labels, it's launching its its first ever live TV show called Style Code Live. Hosted by a trio of reality and fashion show personalities, the show looks like a youth take on QVC's home shopping channel. The hosts and their guests will offer fashion and makeup advice,…

If you were to ask the question, “What is Facebook?”, you might get a variety of different answers: A social network, a communication platform, a content aggregator and so on. Yet one thing Facebook isn’t — yet — is an e-commerce player. But it’s arguable that much of what Facebook has been building over the…