Online shopping may soon be a little more expensive. In a case called South Dakota v. Wayfair (.pdf), the US Supreme Court today overruled a 1992 decision, Quill v. Heitkamp, that prevented states from requiring online retailers to collect sales tax when there was no physical business presence in the state. Quill was a catalog […]
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Amazon’s Go checkout-free grocery concept store proved immediately popular, with the retailer saying it would open more stores in the US. While it’s not clear how disruptive to the grocery or broader retail industry Amazon Go might become, Microsoft apparently wants to help traditional retailers proactively compete. Reuters reported earlier today that Microsoft is developing
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Self-checkout at brick-and-mortar stores has been a thing for quite a while. But it has required that customers download an app or use the store’s kiosks. Boston-based e-commerce provider Moltin has now launched with clothing retailer Stance what the companies said is the first instance of a retailer offering a self-checkout solution that is entirely
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Marketers are data-obsessed; we want to know everything we possibly can about our customers. We invade their lives to leverage some of the most personal and important information. Yet the experience for the customer is often underwhelmingly generic and provides no obvious value. Data collection is an issue right now — not because customers don’t
Forty percent of Amazon shoppers never scroll past the first page, according to a 2018 Feedvisor study. That’s why, with millions upon millions of products on Amazon, brands are increasingly turning to Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) like Headline Search Ads and Sponsored Products as a way to jump-start performance on the retail site. As a
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As of Q1 2018, Google Shopping ads drove 76.4 percent of retail search ad spend, eclipsing text ads in markets around the world. As these Product Listing Ads (PLAs) become more competitive, the question becomes how to maximize ROI without simply piling on budget. The answer is competitive search intelligence: understanding where your spend will
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It may be that different generations have always shopped differently. However, new research from Euclid shows that millennials stand apart from earlier generations in their shopping habits and use of technology. The new Euclid report (registration required), based on a survey of 1,500 US consumers in March, is called “The Store of the Past Meets The
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As in many markets, the tactics to successfully sell home goods and furniture on Amazon differ slightly depending on the price point. But after analyzing more than 365,000 furniture and home goods product pages on Amazon as part of my work at Salsify, I noted a few overarching lessons. Top-performing products generally have product pages
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Jeramey Lende / Shutterstock.com Amazon has remained tight-lipped regarding its Prime membership numbers until yesterday, when CEO Jeff Bezos confirmed that the company has surpassed 100 million paid Prime members globally in his letter to shareholders. “In 2017, Amazon shipped more than five billion items with Prime worldwide, and more new members joined Prime than
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