Americans love their pets — and really love spending money on their furry companions. If there was any doubt about that, the latest results from Amazon, where pet product category sales have grown by 40 percent, is a confirmation that pets are beloved even in online...
As consumers get busier and more digitally savvy, their need for new tools to help them manage the simpler aspects of life grows as well. Many companies have responded by adding skills to Amazon’s personal assistant device, Alexa, and now eCommerce firm Ocado Technology has...
Target appears to have grown weary of maintaining separate apps – one as its flagship phone application and another displaying its Cartwheel deals – and has decided to merge the two formats into one, Chain Store Age reports. Users who want to find the app...
Google seems to want a slice of everybody else’s pie this week. Some of the search engine giant’s latest moves are strikingly similar to what competitors are doing: Amazon in eCommerce and Facebook in subscription news. Plus, the company is testing a new feature that...
The war for wearable dominance is heating up, and the team at Fitbit is making a power play for top position. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
Many consumers enjoy shopping in department stores, others enjoy making purchases directly via eCommerce — and then there are those who fall somewhere in-between, and Nordstrom is aiming to capture that market with an expansion of its latest innovation. Get the Full Story Complete the...
As the destructive effects of Hurricane Harvey, which hit land in Texas on Friday, continue to become apparent, both consumers and businesses are seeing the impact of the storm and may continue to have issues for weeks, months or even years because of its damage. After...
“We did some research and found out that the majority of businesses in the beauty industry operate offline, without any software at all. A full 52 percent of salons in the U.S. still manage their bookings with pen and paper,” Shedul co-founder and CEO William Zeqiri said...
eCommerce has become a natural part of life in many parts of the world, but that hasn’t been the case in the Middle East. Most of the region’s eCommerce traffic is coming from a single country: the U.A.E. There are myriad barriers to wider acceptance,...
