E-Commerce
September 4, 2015 at 11:26 am
Gilt this week announced they will be opening “Gilt by Appointment,” an opportunity for New York-based customers to experience an in-person appointment with a personal stylist to try on and select items from Gilt’s current assortment. This is an interesting move for an online pureplay retailer, putting Gilt in the company of online peers like…
September 2, 2015 at 12:19 pm
Luxury online shopping site Gilt.com is bringing its business to the real world. Starting Sept. 8, the company will offer a new service, called Gilt by Appointment, that allows loyal members the chance to shop its selection of shoes, apparel and accessories in a showroom space within the firm’s New York headquarters.
September 1, 2015 at 3:34 pm
Hear from two expert speakers on best practices for implementing site search into the online shopping experience.
August 31, 2015 at 12:48 pm
Earlier this month, Tractor Supply Company announced that it had partnered with IBM to revamp and migrate its website to a new cloud-based platform. The rural lifestyle retailer wanted a website that offered visitors optimal viewing across all devices, better integration with the brand's social pages, and a simplified checkout process. In short, Tractor Supply…
August 28, 2015 at 11:34 am
PayPal is raising fees by up to 32 percent with the elimination of volume discounts. Sellers on eBay are particularly hit hard as the marketplace limits which payment methods they can offer for eBay transactions — and eBay just revealed yesterday it will no longer accept ProPay or Skrill, leaving many sellers in a tight…
August 28, 2015 at 9:15 am
Episode 5 of Total Retail Talks features a conversation with Rob Mills, senior vice president and chief information officer at Tractor Supply Co. In the interview, Mills discusses why Tractor Supply Co. needed a website redesign, why a cloud-based platform made sense, and how the redesigned site has been integrated with the company's brick-and-mortar stores. The…
August 27, 2015 at 9:38 am
Back-to-school has become one of the biggest shopping events of the year — second only to the holiday season. That means retailer competition to capitalize on seasonal spending is high, especially with average back-to-school sales growing 42 percent in the past 10 years. That’s why it behooves retailers to think strategically and move quickly to…
August 21, 2015 at 1:00 pm
Etsy has launched a Buy It Now button, giving customers a faster way to purchase items from sellers. The button only appears for shoppers who are signed in, and it appears above the existing "Add to cart" button. Etsy had already rolled out the Buy It Now functionality to mobile web last month, it revealed,…
August 20, 2015 at 2:29 pm
Ms. Wesson and Aimee Cho, her business partner, have, after all, poured their style convictions into 1.61, a year-old gender-free label built largely on loosefitting trousers, swagger coats and easy shirts — items that they wear themselves and offer in varying sizes to both women and men. They are among the latest in a raft…
August 18, 2015 at 12:53 pm
Holiday preparations are in full swing as retailers gear up for their busiest time of the year. In this debut issue of Total Retail Talks, Total Retail's new podcast channel, Joe Keenan, executive editor of Total Retail, chats with with Jim Davidson, Bronto Software's head of research, about the release of the cloud-based marketing automation…
