E-Commerce
June 22, 2015 at 4:31 pm
The time has come to reimagine your shopping cart. For years, it's served as the connection between the shopping experience and the checkout process, but now it needs to do more. Consumers aren't shopping like they did in the early days of e-commerce, and it’s time for the shopping cart to catch up. The shopping…
June 17, 2015 at 3:59 pm
The Marketplace Fairness Act failed to secure Congressional approval again last year, but was reintroduced in the Senate in March. This week, a different version surfaced in the House. Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz introduced the Remote Transactions Parity Act of 2015 on Monday. Retail groups including the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Retail Industry Leaders…
June 16, 2015 at 2:41 pm
Patience is a virtue, but unfortunately it’s not one that that e-tailers can count on from their customers, especially when it comes to peak digital shopping events like Mother’s Day. Consumer impatience and demand for consistently high performance and speed is a well-documented fact in today’s digital economy. The so called "Google effect" has drained…
June 9, 2015 at 3:20 pm
E-commerce has quickly become one of the most popular ways for consumers to shop, as it provides a level of convenience that brick-and-mortar stores simply can’t offer. Now with virtual fitting rooms and tools that can assemble new outfits online, among other refinements, it's easier than ever before to buy clothes online. Finding the right…
June 8, 2015 at 5:02 pm
Working the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE) in Chicago is always a snapshot into the state of e-commerce. My first priority each year is to walk the show floor to find out what are the obvious “needle movers” that need to be part of everyone’s internet marketing plans. This year’s list of “duh, of course…
June 4, 2015 at 3:23 pm
Listen in as Steven Leeds, director of marketing for TigerDirect.com, discusses why the leading consumer electronics retailer started allowing its customers to use Bitcoin to pay for merchandise, as well as how the move is helping to improve sales,
June 4, 2015 at 3:11 pm
Users of Pinterest will soon be able to buy items directly through the company's app using a new type of pin. Pinterest and Canadian e-commerce company Shopify said Tuesday that the "buyable pins" will debut in the next few weeks. Pinterest says buyable items will have a blue pin displaying their price. Users will be…
June 4, 2015 at 12:58 pm
Target has been in the news a lot recently, and not always for the right reasons. First there was the massive data breach in December 2013, and more recently a website outage on the night of the much anticipated launch of the Lilly Pulitzer line at Target. It's not been all bad news, however. Target's…
June 2, 2015 at 3:58 pm
The wave of the future, e-commerce is booming worldwide. More and more consumers are enthusiastically embracing the ease and convenience of online shopping — and why shouldn't they? They can find almost anything they want at any time and order it with just a few keystrokes on their laptops, tablets or smartphones. For retailers, this…
June 1, 2015
You’ve set the bar pretty high when you name your company Greats, but Ryan Babenzien and his team have the goods to deliver on that promise. Founded in 2013, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based men’s footwear company is manufacturing its product and selling it direct to consumers at a value price, bypassing the inefficiency of selling wholesale to third-party retail partners — not to mention the higher prices paid by customers.
