When smartphones first emerged as yet another viable medium of retail, many merchants needed help getting themselves set up on the then-foreign mobile platform. Now, a similar dynamic is emerging, but this time, it’s for virtual reality. Gear Commerce announced on Thursday (April 14) that it...
Modern air travel is a fragmented experience. Between security checks, harried boarding procedures and more fees than passengers can shake their wallets at, it doesn’t really seem like fertile ground for merchants to make the positive connections valued in contemporary retail. However, Magento Commerce and the Frankfurt...
Why can’t eCommerce and brick-and-mortar just get along? Retail pundits have created a whole lexicon for when they sometimes do — omnichannel, online-to-offline, click-and-collect — but one of the darlings of the eCommerce age just poked a big hole in the theory that online and...
The American automotive industry might be decades removed from its heyday, but that doesn’t mean that consumers no longer need a steady supply of parts to repair their old vehicles — just like it doesn’t mean that auto repair suppliers can rely on old retail maxims of...
There are few happy with the current state of online orders. It’s an onerous step for consumers obsessed with convenience, and it can be an even more frustrating drain on retailers’ profit margins. However, a new startup from a pair of omnichannel retail veterans has...
Today’s digitally empowered consumers know exactly what they want when it comes to their shopping journey across channels – but are merchants informed enough to deliver? According to a recent report, European merchants just may be doing omnichannel better than those in North America. Catch...
In retail, there’s no better time to strike than while the iron’s hot. If the new-fangled website isn’t ready when said iron is, though, it’s better to be late than never. That’s the situation Stein Mart finds itself in, according to a statement outlining its...
If there’s been one overriding law when it comes to defining in-store versus online sales, it’s that retailers that focus on eCommerce can pad their profits with all the overhead costs they don’t have to pay when opening a brick-and-mortar store. However, Nordstrom is ready...
The first few months have been less than wholly kind to the nation’s biggest names in retail. However, the news has not quite been completely negative. There have been a few surprise shows of strength — JCPenney and Abercrombie, we’re looking at you here — but, on the...
