E-Commerce
November 27, 2015 at 11:56 am
Neiman Marcus shoppers hoping to scoop up Black Friday deals were instead greeted with an error message. According to Catchpoint Systems, which monitors retailers' web performance, the luxury brand's homepage has been mostly unavailable since 8 a.m. ET. It represents the first significant outage of the day, and follows a smooth day of web performance on Thanksgiving,…
November 27, 2015 at 11:44 am
Wal-Mart’s website malfunctioned during the Thanksgiving shopping rush Thursday morning, throwing a wrench in some shoppers’ plans to avoid long lines by grabbing deals online. For the first time, the world’s biggest retailer offered most of its Black Friday “doorbusters” on its website hours before they were available inside its U.S. stores. The discounts, which were…
November 27, 2015 at 10:55 am
Early reports for Thanksgiving sales show a record number of consumers using their mobile devices for shopping. Software firm Adobe, which tracks sales at 4,500 websites, predicts $1.7 billion will be spent for the 24-hour Thursday period. Researcher Shoppertrack says retail stores rang up $3.2 billion in sales last Thanksgiving, while the Thursday/Friday period total was…
November 25, 2015 at 12:06 pm
In this Highlight Reel, you’ll get a taste of the content that was covered in our full-length 10/20 webinar.
November 25, 2015 at 11:37 am
Cyber Monday is quickly becoming the antidote to what many dread about Black Friday — hordes of shoppers, long lines and amped adrenaline as the holiday shopping season officially kicks off. Americans are expected to spend $3 billion this Cyber Monday, a 12 percent increase from last year. Therefore, it’s vital that online retailers take…
November 23, 2015 at 11:21 am
This year there will be no rest for the holiday shopping weary. As part of the growing trend to start holiday sales earlier, Wal-Mart has announced that it will begin its Cyber Monday sales the Sunday night of Thanksgiving weekend. The first round of deals will begin at 8 p.m. ET on Sun., Nov. 29 and…
November 23, 2015 at 9:44 am
Last month, overstockArt.com launched a new e-commerce site to replace the online retailer's 12-year old flagship online store. In episode 13 of Total Retail Talks, Amitai Sasson, vice president of marketing and development at overstockArt.com, discusses how the brand is leveraging its new site to better engage consumers and sell its products.
November 19, 2015 at 11:58 am
Rolling out Black Friday deals every 10 minutes apparently wasn't enough for Amazon.com. Starting Friday and running through the day after Thanksgiving, the online retailer will one-up itself by adding new holiday deals as often as every five minutes. That compares to last season, when it launched a new promotion every 10 minutes.
November 18, 2015 at 10:32 am
Martha Stewart has ditched eBay, taking her American Made store to Amazon’s Handmade marketplace, as the e-commerce giant flexes its muscle in the burgeoning online market for handcrafted goods. American Made, a venture introduced in 2013, was intended to be eBay’s answer to Etsy, the pioneer in the online handmade goods market. It offered locally made…
November 18, 2015 at 10:07 am
Yet more news of closures at Groupon, the daily deals and local commerce platform. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company has ceased operations immediately in four more countries, all in Europe, where its business has been in decline: Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. The news comes amid a difficult period at Groupon, which has…
