
E-Commerce

The National Retail Federation (NRF) today announced that retail sales — excluding automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants — were up 0.9 percent in July, up 5.6 percent year-over-year, and the industry trade association remains cautiously optimistic about consumer spending as a whole for the rest of the year. The NRF said its numbers are based on data…
Kristy Wieber, co-founder and president of Rent frock Repeat, explains the innovative clothing rental model that uniquely answers consumer needs while benefiting apparel brands.
Every year, the beginning of August marks the start of back-to-school (BTS) shopping for students and their parents. With an average of $519 expected to be spent per child, according to Deloitte, the BTS season is second only to the Q4 holiday shopping season. BTS provides an enormous opportunity for even the smallest businesses to…
Whether you’re a big-box retailer or a manufacturer/branded store, it’s essential to have an incredible digital user experience that differentiates your business from the competition. Why is differentiation important? It can attract more potential customers, increase customer value, and increase retention. To reach those goals, however, you first need to complete a user journey analysis…
Online grocery is a business model that seems to be exploding. In recent years, national grocery chains have launched both delivery and pickup services, and nongrocery brands have entered the grocery market. For example, Amazon.com has plans to launch a chain of grocery stores by the end of 2019 starting in Los Angeles. In addition…
Although B-to-B customers want to simplify their complex buyer journeys by making more purchases online, they’re still finding it difficult to fully embrace an e-commerce-led way of purchasing thanks to the customer experience challenges they’re facing with B-to-B web stores. According to Sana Commerce's most recent data, in the retail sector today, only 66 percent…
Join our expert speakers as they discuss why automation is increasingly being viewed as critical in product content management.
The popularity of e-commerce continues to grow rapidly. Amid a constantly evolving technological environment, it’s increasingly important for retailers to separate the signal from the noise, and identify what makes up the core of online shopping’s staying power. So what are consumers really looking for in their e-commerce experience, and how can retailers best meet…
To many, it may feel as though summer still has a ways to go. But like it or not, retailers must face the fact that Amazon.com's first-ever 48-hour Prime Day ushered in the unofficial start of the 2019 back-to-school (BTS) shopping season, along with some heated competition for consumer spend. BTS is the second-largest shopping…
In a post to its company blog last week, popular fashion resale platform Poshmark announced that its servers had been accessed by an "unauthorized third party." The hackers stole private data from users in the U.S. that included personal email addresses, Poshmark account usernames, clothing size preferences, and social media account information. Poshmark, which is…