Who says paying in installments is only for physical items? This new year, a rise in vacation layaway programs -- whose roots are in traditional retail -- may see more budget-conscious consumers buying trips that would otherwise be out of their financial reach.
Is the future of auto sales in the online realm, or are there too many variables involved in those transactions to ever see traditional methods fully give way to new technology? With the U.S. auto industry coming off a banner year, the answer might be...
The winding down of the holiday season is no excuse to be slack in security, as recent news shows that hackers certainly aren’t taking a vacation. The latest Retail Security Tracker shares what retailers need to be looking out for as we head into the...
Right after the Christmas season comes, of course, the season of returns. With unwanted items accounting for as much as 15 percent of all holiday sales, retailers are now in the midst of handling those comebacks, employing varying degrees of difficulty for consumers.
Arguably the primary obstacle to personal fitness is self-motivation. An emerging startup, ClassPass, is aiming to remove at least one excuse to not work out with a subscription-based service that allows users to find what gym option works best for them in the real world.
It’s no secret that brick-and-mortar retail is playing a high-stakes game of catchup against its online counterparts. It can seem like digital marketplaces have so many built-in advantages to running their businesses through the Internet — a medium where detailed data on shoppers is the...
With big movies come long lines, and no movie in history has been poised to be much bigger than ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’. The impending release of that event film, however, coincides with a boom of digital consumer behavior that could make waiting in...
When consumers grumble about “Christmas creep,” they’re usually referring to how the once-contained holiday shopping season has started to sneak its way earlier and earlier into November — and, sometimes, even October. However annoying a premature commercial or radio jingle may be for the shoppers,...
It might not be a large enough problem to warrant assembling a supergroup to record a song and raise awareness of it, but the fact is that many retailers don’t seem to know -- at least not if their security implementation is any indication --...
