Adobe says this year’s holiday e-commerce earnings will beat last year’s $92 billion — up 13.8 percent to break $100 billion. According to Adobe, online sales will reach $107.4 billion, with the largest online shopping day of the year to occur Cyber Monday, November 27. The Monday after Thanksgiving is expected to bring in $6.6 […]
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Google is updating the look of of its product-oriented knowledge panels on mobile to show even more details about specific products in the search results. In an example spotted by Vlad Rappoport, shown below, the shopping knowledge panel has a blue header and a new carousel featuring third-party editorial reviews and separate tabs for stores
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Two weeks out from the busiest holiday shopping time of the year, many holiday shoppers are already hitting the buy button. Cardlytics, a company that provides an online rewards platform for financial institutions, says that 40 percent of holiday spend happens in the four weeks leading up to Black Friday, and that last year’s Black
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Even as companies such as Deloitte argue that more buying will happen online than in stores this holiday season, the value of stores remains clear. That’s partly why Amazon paid nearly $14 billion for Whole Foods earlier this year and why the company is seeking to launch holiday shops in selected markets across the US.
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The holiday shopping season has long been synonymous with chaos, crowds and mass appeal. In fact, some might say that the holiday shopping season is, by nature, the enemy of personalization. But the bedlam of the holidays actually brings invaluable insights and increased opportunities for retailers to fine-tune their personalization strategies. Indeed, today’s consumers are
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Retailers have been trying to bring together the information-rich world of their online stores with the touch-the-product advantages of their brick-and-mortar ones. This had led to kiosks, mobile apps that point to inventory in a physical store, and location-based offers, among other efforts. This week, a startup is launching a new and patent-pending approach: Put
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At first glance, millennial and Gen Z shoppers might seem to be sounding the death knell for the beleaguered brick-and-mortar retail industry. After all, these demographics are spending more of their time (shopping) on smartphones and mobile devices than any other generation. And while it may seem easy to draw a connection between this trend
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A lot of customers naturally have their sights set on the December holidays, when they can enjoy the fruits of their planning and shopping efforts. But for retailers, the focus is squarely pointed at Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which feature the biggest payoff of the holiday season — and it’s the reason I recommend
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As we head into peak holiday shopping season, a survey of online retailers conducted by BigCommerce reveals more than a third began their holiday preparations months earlier than last year. The e-commerce software provider surveyed more than 1,000 of its clients, primarily B2C retailers with annual earnings from less than $50,000 to more than $1
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Bit by bit, Salesforce is bringing its Einstein AI layer to all parts of its clouds. This week, the company is launching Einstein Search for Commerce in its Commerce Cloud so that stores using its e-commerce platform can make it easier for visitors to find stuff on their websites. The company says its platform is
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