Amazon’s marketplace business is growing once again
Third-party seller services and overall marketplace growth helped fuel Amazon’s third-quarter earnings.
This past quarter, Amazon’s online stores business grew 7% year-over-year to $57.2 billion....
Brand Metrics for Ecommerce Companies
Brand metrics describe how shoppers feel about a business and its products.
Brand metrics are often predictive, indicating how likely shoppers will purchase, and prescriptive,...
20 Popular Pinterest Accounts for Marketing Inspiration
At its September 2023 Investor Day, Pinterest stated more than half of its users view the platform as a place to shop, and buyable items saved to...
Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?
Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder.
In a recent article in The Atlantic,...
What Lies Ahead in the Future of Omnichannel?
The importance of omnichannel operations is well established, and that is driving customer expectations higher than ever. In 2020, Gartner estimated that 60% of B2C...
Is This the Perfect Formula for Visual Merchandising?
Gifts & Decorative Accessories recently shared a visual merchandising webinar between the nonprofit group Heart on Main Street, which offers financial aid, mentorship, and education to retailers, and...
Is Instacart Showing How AI Will Transform the Grocery Experience?
Instacart announced a series of AI-driven upgrades to its websites, apps, and smart carts that promise to help grocery shoppers with education, discovery, and checkout.
On...
Has Omnichannel Retailing Made Malls More Relevant?
A study from Coresight Research found traffic at U.S. shopping malls has strongly recovered to surpass pre-Covid levels. The research firm believes brands within malls are...
Why Does Celebrity Advertising Work?
Actor/comedian Jim Gaffigan is starring in new commercials supporting Walmart’s Straight Talk Wireless family plans, actress Emma Roberts fronted Saks’ spring campaign, and hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg recently signed on...
Can YouTube Shopping Emulate China’s Live Shopping?
Fashion site Glossy shares how YouTube is pushing forward with video shopping in the wake of Instagram reducing its shopping features and TikTok increasing theirs with a...
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Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?
Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder.
In a recent article in The Atlantic,...
American Express expands small business perks as it reportedly falls under federal investigation
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Days before The Wall Street Journal reported federal investigators were looking into American Express' sales to business owners, the company introduced more incentives...
Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud
If the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices ......