EBay was one of the pioneers of online commerce in the early days of the Internet, provided through 30-day free installments from America Online. Fast forward to 2016, and eBay has carved out its own niche of sales in a crowded market. And it isn’t...
If brick-and-mortar merchants can claim anything sacred from the total encroachment of online retail on its turf, it’s the highest echelon of uber-luxurious commerce. Online brands have yet to figure out a way to offer mimosas while personal stylists or designers do their jewel-encrusted work,...
Change is underway at Twitter — and in a big way. Going into the holiday weekend the part of that change leading the media coverage is the mass exodus underway in Twitter’s upper echelons. Two more executives joined the roster of high level players that...
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Monkey see, monkey do. Follow the leader. Whatever your preferred platitude, the news of Amazon’s quiet strangling of its price matching policy this week seems to have emboldened others to do the same. Namely, Walmart, the largest in-store...
Brick-and-mortar versus online. It’s Frazier versus Ali. It’s cats versus dogs. It’s black against white. At least, it used to be. Nowadays, retailers of all persuasions are of a mind that omnicommerce is an essential and effective part of selling to the modern consumer. The days...
Watching a smartphone battery drain to nothing will, one day, be properly diagnosed as a traumatic experience. For now, though, Neiman Marcus is doing what it can to keep that from happening and from causing consumers to cut their shopping sprees short. Neiman Marcus and ChargeItSpot...
The “elevator pitch” became so named because it was deemed eminently crucial to deliver a succinct and persuasive business idea in no more than the time it takes for an elevator to go from the lobby to a top floor (presumably the corner office occupied...
Consumers are warming up to the idea of buying luxury goods through online retailers but, not until recently, could the same be said for dollar-store shopping. Hollar, a startup focused on bringing the dollar-store concept online, helped start the trend, and now, it’s hoping to...
The Apple Watch might be the smartwatch du jour of the early adopter set, but that doesn’t mean it has a monopoly on the market. In fact, the little-known Pebble is fast making gains through alternative funding efforts. VentureBeat reported that Tuesday (May 24) saw...
