eBay.co.uk is speculating that Super Sunday, in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is going to be the most chaotic shopping day with 7M+ British bargain hunters ready to shop. eBay UK is predicting that shoppers will purchase over 1,800 gifts per minute from the...
Online shopping was the very platform that brick-and-mortar retailers feared would take away sales in physical stores, but there’s a new potential trend that’s bringing web shoppers back into stores. Instead of using the web to drive traffic out of stores, research from a University of...
Tech investment group Revolution Growth are putting a lot more green into the fast food salad company Sweetgreen. Or to be exact: $18.5 million worth of green, Business Insider reported. The company had previously invested $22 million into the restaurant chain. Revolution Growth, which is an investment fund from...
In the past, the start of the holiday rush began on a particular holiday: Black Friday. Or at least maybe that’s the way it used to be. Like back in the ’60s when the holiday was created to bring retailers out of the red to...
According to a recent survey by Sailthru, consumers– especially bigger spenders– place a higher value on convenience than they do on trust. The survey, titled “Trust in Technology,” involved over 1,000 adults who make at least one online purchase a year. It found that while just...
The not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper demise of former flash-sale design site Fab.com represents either the collapse of a billion-dollar startup -- currently for sale for $15 million -- or the successful pivot of that startup from online flash sales to an omnichannel home-decor retailer.
The impulse shopper is every retailer and credit card companies’s best friend. But with eCommerce on the rise, online shopping has created savvier shoppers less likely to veer from the list, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal observed habits of shoppers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Rejoice. Gas prices are at the lowest they’ve been in nearly 4 years, topping off at an average of less than $3 a gallon. Still, CFOs aren’t hopeful that extra cash will get into their stores this holiday season, the Wall Street Journal reported. Gas...
The holiday sales season and the online crush that accompanies it might seem a natural field day for cyberthieves hoping to attack retailers — but according to an IBM analysis, they’re not, USA Today reported. IBM’s Managed Security Service analyzed several years’ worth of data-loss...
