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• 100+ Best Affiliate Programs for Ecommerce Entrepreneurs - To find the best affiliate programs and earn income from high-quality affiliate programs, read on and find the corresponding Affiliate Programs Directory below!
  Topics: sellers, entrepreneurs, programs, earn, best, retailers, brand, products, brands, affiliate, directory, program, networks.
• 2019 Holiday Sales Wrap-up - The 2019 holiday shopping season exhibited mixed results, with online revenues growing substantially but brick-and-mortar sales showing meager or negative growth. The entire holiday season — November 1 through December 31 — saw a modest total increase in overall revenues.
  Topics: billion, sales, smartphones, total, retailers, online, holiday, wrapup, increase, reported, stores.
• 4 views on the future of retail and the shopping experience - While the present is largely bleak, preparing for the future has retailers adopting technologies faster than ever. Their resilience and innovation means retail will look and fee different when the world reopens.
  Topics: future, mascarenhas, views, shopping, ways, experience, techcrunch, need, thinks, retail, retailers, adopting, look.
• 5 Ways Data Science Drives Ecommerce Revenue - Data science is the processing and analysis of large datasets — structured or unstructured.  Tweets from customers and prospects is an example of unstructured data. Here are five data-science uses to drive ecommerce sales.
  Topics: retailers, revenue, ecommerce, data, customers, sales, customer, analysis, product, ways, example, products, drives, science.
• 60% of German retailers don’t want Black Friday - Black Friday is popular in Germany, where numerous online and physical retailers throw around discounts. But many retailers prefer there was no Black Friday at all. Still, they are captured by the attention this holiday keeps attracting. Traditionally, the most busy shopping days in Europe took place just before Christmas.… Continue reading
  Topics: dont, question, retailers, think, stronger, thinks, german, impact, black, shopping, consumers.
• 65% of German retailers don’t sell online - Two out of three retailers in Germany still don’t sell their products online. Mostly, it’s grocers, clothing stores and specialists such as jewelers that don’t sell on the internet. A survey held by Handelsverbandes Deutschland, among 850 retailers in Germany, shows that retail sales in Germany will grow 2 percent… Continue reading
  Topics: sales, online, shows, sell, marketplace, dont, german, ecommerce, retail, germany, retailers.
• 65% of online retailers in Europe needed extra finance - Two thirds of online merchants in Europe have needed extra finance in the past two years. Loans carried out after the outbreak of the corona virus aren’t included in this statistic. Online merchants need a loan the most for buying equipment. Some people think ecommerce companies are generating huge amounts… Continue reading
  Topics: needed, months, finance, online, merchants, need, cover, extra, retailers, wait, europe.
• AR is the answer to plummeting retail sales during lockdown - The so-called retail apocalypse may seem inevitable, but in these challenging times, it is more important than ever to look at how technology can turn the tide.
  Topics: sales, retail, store, consumers, lockdown, ar, returns, reality, purchase, retailers, plummeting, techcrunch, technology, answer.
• Alibaba Cloud to help retailers go live online within five days - Alibaba’s cloud service is promising to boost e-commerce solutions to businesses suffering from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
  Topics: outbreak, platform, live, alibaba, online, solutions, days, help, retailers, services, coronavirus, set, cloud, businesses, ecommerce.
• Alibaba urges offline retailers to livestream on Taobao Live - Alibaba Group’s livestreaming channel Taobao Live is planning to attract more than 200,000 businesses to its platform this year.
  Topics: urges, livestream, wholesale, retailers, businesses, yu, wants, live, alibaba, taobao, platform, yearthe, offline, firm.
• Amazon is now selling its cashierless store technology to other retailers - Amazon on Monday announced it will now offer its cashierless store technology, called “Just Walk Out,” to other retailers. The technology uses a combination of cameras, sensors, computer vision techniques and deep learning to allow customers to shop, then leave the store without waiting in line to pay. This is the same technology that today […]
  Topics: customers, technology, selling, stores, store, retailers, amazon, techcrunch, walk, system, cashierless, amazons.
• B2B marketplace Ankorstore launches in Germany - Ankorstore, a B2B marketplace from France, has opened its doors in Germany. With a look that is reminiscent of a business-to-consumer website, the platform wants to adapt the distribution between brands and retailers to today’s needs. Ankorstore just announced its official launch in Germany, making this the fourth market in… Continue reading
  Topics: marketplace, experience, accessible, ankorstore, retailers, brands, germany, b2b, webinar, founders, b2c, launches.
• CapitaLand launches new e-commerce platforms in Singapore - CapitaLand has launched new e-commerce and food ordering platforms in Singapore, dubbed eCapitaMall and Capita3Eats.
  Topics: ecommerce, launches, singapores, using, reach, capitaland, app, ordering, retailers, food, singapore, platforms.
• Chinese giants dominate Asia’s online grocery market - China’s two e-commerce giants are driving the most growth in Asia’s online grocery market according to a new report from international researcher IGD.
  Topics: dominate, suppliers, partnerships, growth, market, chinese, giants, retailers, online, asia, grocery, asias, value, billion.
• Covid-19 will speed up the reshaping of global retail trends, says KPMG - Covid-19 has accelerated key underlying global retail trends that were already reshaping the industry according to a new report by KPMG.
  Topics: covid19, retailers, speed, customer, report, global, shopping, reshaping, retail, online, kpmg, trends, need, business.
• DIY-startup ManoMano aims for Germany - ManoMano, a startup from France selling DIY, home improvement and gardening products, raised 125 million euros earlier this year and is ready to conquer Europe. Now it has set its sights on Germany, which has a market that’s dominated by Amazon, while big home improvement retailers are late to the… Continue reading
  Topics: euros, manomano, million, merchants, diystartup, aims, products, business, germany, market, improvement, retailers.
• Deep North raises $25.7M for AI that uses CCTV to build retail analytics - Amazon and others have raised awareness of how the in-store shopping experience can be sped up (and into the future) using computer vision to let a person pay for and take away items without ever interacting with a cashier, human or otherwise. Today, a startup is announcing funding for its own take on how to […]
  Topics: uses, analytics, using, cctv, build, retailers, startup, techcrunch, raises, north, deep, retail, ai, instore, data, insights, cameras.
• Ebay cooperates with Shopify - From now on, Shopify retailers in Germany can now set up and sell their products directly on eBay from their Shopify account. This way, they can benefit from the major reach the online marketplace has in Germany and abroad. eBay is the first online marketplace in Germany that cooperates with… Continue reading
  Topics: market, shopify, cooperates, ebay, sales, reach, products, retailers, customers, benefit, germany.
• Ecommeleon announces seed funding - Ecommeleon, a German startup aimed at sellers on online marketplaces, has announced a successful seed funding round. The money will be used to support the spin-off of ecommerce service provider InterCultural Elements with its final development and initial market launch. In September, InterCultural Elements announced plans to spin-off an internally… Continue reading
  Topics: funding, marketplaces, company, market, ecommerce, seed, sellers, ecommeleon, retailers, online, announces, data, tgfs, product.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: October 1, 2019 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for late-September from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on payment platforms, shipping applications, social media advertising tools, online marketplaces, mobile marketing, and artificial intelligence services for Amazon.
  Topics: releases, retailers, businesses, advertising, mobile, services, merchants, access, amazon, launches, ups, ecommerce, product.
• Facebook Shops to let retailers sell directly to consumers - New platform to allow businesses to sell across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
  Topics: zealand, let, consumers, able, sell, online, retailers, marketplace, shops, products, businesses, business, social, facebook, directly.
• First-party Logistics Could Transform Ecommerce - In 2020, Amazon will deliver roughly 3.5 billion packages in the United States — more than FedEx. That could signal a trend toward first-party logistics, price pressure, and fragmentation in the package delivery industry.
  Topics: firstparty, walmart, ups, ship, ecommerce, amazon, transform, delivery, retailers, packages, logistics, shipping.
• For 2020, use pre-orders to avoid dead stock - It is time to plan for the new year. Consider offering pre-orders. It's a topic by itself — researching suitable products, marketing to potential customers, and then communicating with those prospects about their requirements.
  Topics: auction, buy, retailers, money, card, dead, avoid, preorders, customers, smaller, stock, sales.
• Four ways the Covid-19 pandemic will reshape shopping behaviour in Asia - Shopping behaviour in Asia will be redefined by the Covid-19 crisis, according to new research from retail solutions provider Tofugear, Digital Consumer in Asia 2020.
  Topics: retailers, shopping, cent, behaviour, reshape, ways, pandemic, asia, report, consumers, fulfilment, covid19, spending, shoppers, retail, state.
• German marketplaces warn dealers: get a VAT certificate - Online marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon and Etsy are warning connected retailers who are subject to VAT in Germany. They should provide the marketplaces with proof of their VAT registration with a special certificate. The deadline for submission expires on the 1st of October. Starting 1 October, EU-based online retailers… Continue reading
  Topics: marketplaces, registration, retailers, certificate, dealers, need, warn, germany, vat, sellers, german, provide.
• Germany makes destroying products more difficult - The Cabinet of Germany has launched a draft law that is aimed to improve waste avoidance and to increase recycling. For online retailers this means the destruction of products will be more difficult, so they need to find a better way to deal with returns. The updated Recycling Act covers… Continue reading
  Topics: difficult, online, webinar, returns, law, germany, makes, goods, destroying, retailers, products, recycling, stock, zalando.
• Google Express to close in a few weeks, will become part of Google Shopping - Google’s failed online shopping service Google Express is closing in a few weeks, as its features will be merged into a revamped version of Google Shopping, Google says in an email sent to its customers this week. The company had already announced its plans to shutter the Google Express brand, as part of a wider […]
  Topics: express, online, techcrunch, target, products, amazon, shopping, close, walmart, google, googles, weeks, retailers.
• Google acquires Irish retail tech startup Pointy - Google has acquired Pointy, a startup that helps physical retailers with showcasing their products online. Pointy has been a partner of Google for years, for the search engine’s “See what’s in store” section that is shown on business profiles on Google search. With Pointy, retailers can either plug a small… Continue reading
  Topics: pointy, google, inventory, retail, search, retailers, irish, shown, whats, acquires, tech, startup, store.
• Google acquires Pointy, a startup to help brick-and-mortar retailers list products online, for $163M - Google has been on a long-term mission to build inroads into the world of e-commerce by working more closely with brick-and-mortar retailers, and now it looks like it plans to extend that work a little further. The search giant is acquiring Pointy, a startup out of Dublin, Ireland, which has built hardware and software technology […]
  Topics: products, help, brickandmortar, googles, startup, pointy, search, working, google, build, list, retailers, techcrunch, online.
• Google switches its Shopping search service to mostly free listings - Google is making a change to its product search offering, meaning that unpaid listings picked by algorithm will dominate results displayed on the Google Shopping tab instead of mostly paid product listings. In a blog post announcing the move, Bill Ready, president of Google’s commerce division, cited the coronavirus pandemic as a catalyst for Google […]
  Topics: listings, results, shopping, product, switches, products, free, service, google, techcrunch, search, retailers.
• Google’s new feature makes it easier to shop from search results - Following the big revamp of Google Shopping last fall, Google today is updating the shopping experience on Google Search, on mobile. Now, when you do a web search for clothing, shoes and accessories, you won’t just get a set of links to different products and stores. Instead, Google will present a new section where it […]
  Topics: online, youre, techcrunch, shop, easier, feature, shopping, item, products, results, experience, makes, google, stores, retailers, googles, search.
• HKTV Mall sets records as Hongkongers move online during coronavirus crisis - HKTV Mall has achieved its highest monthly turnover of its six years of operations in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
  Topics: shopping, records, wong, hong, retailers, hongkongers, sets, crisis, million, local, online, pickup, coronavirus, hktv, mall.
• How Reliance’s JioMart platform will reshape India’s online grocery market - Reliance Industries has entered India’s online grocery retailing market via a new e-commerce platform JioMart, which started pilot trials last month in Mumbai.
  Topics: reliances, platform, online, jiomart, grocery, fg, reliance, reshape, services, retailers, customer, domestic, indias, market, offline.
• How to Maximize Profits over Black Friday – Cyber Monday - How to maximize profits on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
  Topics: holiday, bfcm, retailers, send, maximize, strategies, purchase, customer, black, audiences, marketing, profits, customers.
• Ikea acquires AI imaging startup Geomagical Labs to supercharge room visualisations - Ikea, the Swedish home furnishings and decor giant, has been one of the leaders among retailers when it comes to adapting to tech innovations that impact its business, being one of the first to launch augmented reality applications, partnering with others to develop smart home devices and launching a business unit to build that out […]
  Topics: technology, room, visualisations, tech, supercharge, ikea, companies, imaging, totty, acquisition, retailers, ai, startup, labs, techcrunch, geomagical, number.
• Indian retailers in Samsung boycott over online discounts - Indian retailers are staging a three-day Samsung boycott in response to the firm’s exclusive discounting deals with e-commerce operators.
  Topics: boycott, indian, discounts, offline, online, brand, samsung, ecommerce, discounting, working, exclusive, mobile, retailers.
• Indian traders lobby for ban on Flipkart, Amazon sales - The Confederation of All India Traders is asking the government to ban pending sales events to be held by e-commerce rivals Amazon and Flipkart.
  Topics: traders, ecommerce, lobby, ban, amazon, retailers, online, sales, flipkart, confederation, cent, violate, foreign, indian, direct.
• India’s online grocers will thrive post-Covid-19, says analyst - India’s online grocers face a bright future following the Covid-19 lockdown, according to analysis by industry research firm GlobalData.
  Topics: postcovid19, thrive, staff, analyst, million, rapid, online, delivery, indias, grocers, lockdown, retailers, saw, territory, operational.
• International Marketplace Network opens for all retailers - The International Marketplace Network (IMN), an alliance of major European ecommerce platforms, is now open for all traders. After a one-year test phases, European online marketplaces Real.de, Cdiscount, eMAG and ePrice are launching the International Marketplace Network. The International Marketplace Network is an initiative from four major ecommerce platforms in… Continue reading
  Topics: marketplace, retail, opens, retailers, marketplaces, realde, ecommerce, online, imn, network, international, technical.
• Kids want ethically conscious shops and short delivery time - Children are looking for shops that are ethically conscious. Almost one in five want to buy plastic-free products that are sustainable and most kids aren’t that patient when it comes to the delivery of goods. Most studies on online consumer behaviour in Europe are focused on adults. That’s no surprise,… Continue reading
  Topics: buy, online, conscious, products, retailers, kids, sustainable, ethically, study, shops, short, children, wait, delivery.
• Little romance likely for China retailers on Valentine’s Day - The coronavirus outbreak is set to rob retailers of all the romance on Valentine’s Day tomorrow according to analysts from OC&C Strategy Consulting.
  Topics: restaurants, consumers, occ, outbreak, retailers, martin, orders, little, day, retail, romance, valentines, online, likely, china.
• Malaysia’s Sunway Pyramid launches online platform for Hari Raya - Malaysia’s Sunway Pyramid mall has launched an online platform to help customers purchase safely during Hari Raya celebrations this year.
  Topics: platform, mall, shoppers, launches, raya, sunway, hari, online, retailers, help, malaysias, pyramid, tan.
• May 2020 Top 10: Our Most Popular Posts - Our mission since 2005 is to publish content to help ecommerce merchants. What follows are the 10 most popular articles that we published in May 2020. Articles from early in the month are more likely to make the list than later ones.
  Topics: popular, read, ecommerce, google, posts, merchants, list, content, sellers, shopping, retailers.
• Mid-market Merchants Lag on Holiday Mobile Sales - Several shopping trends are already emerging from this year’s holiday season. The big story is that U.S. ecommerce sales on mobile are up by a whopping 50 percent. The bulk of the increase has gone to the largest merchants. Mid-market merchants have struggled on mobile.
  Topics: mobile, holiday, experience, desktop, apps, midmarket, merchants, lag, sales, retailers, mobilefirst, ecommerce, shopping.
• Most UK fashion retailers stop marketing after checkout - Most of the top fashion retailers in the United Kingdom fail to offer a post-checkout experience to its customers. For example, they don’t send tailored delivery messages and thus miss out on a upsell opportunity. For most top online fashion retailers in the United Kingdom, customer centricity ends almost immediately… Continue reading
  Topics: stop, customers, shipping, upsell, customer, checkout, uk, marketing, retailers, study, parcellab, delivery, fashion, offer.
• NuOrder launches virtual showroom as Asia sales surge - B2B e-commerce platform Nuorder is launching a virtual showroom service for brands to showcase products via an immersive online experience.
  Topics: virtual, products, photography, brands, showroom, retailers, retail, platform, using, launches, surge, asia, nuorder, sales, service.
• Online grocery shopping in Sweden grows 21.9% - Sales in the grocery trade in Sweden increased by 3.1 percent during the full year 2019. The fastest growth was noticeable in the ecommerce, as store sales increased by 2.8 percent, while ecommerce grew 21.9 percent. This is shown by the Grocery Index of the Swedish Food Retailers Federation, an… Continue reading
  Topics: ecommerce, online, retail, grocery, sweden, swedish, rate, retailers, food, grows, webinar, sales, shopping.
• Online remote payments for digital and physical goods to hit $6 trillion - New research shows the total transaction value of online remote payments for digital and physical goods will exceed US$6 trillion by 2024.
  Topics: remote, transaction, digital, payments, trillion, retailers, research, mobile, cent, hit, online, goods, physical.
• Online retail the ‘silver lining’ in Singapore retail space - The Singapore retail real estate market has weakened amidst the coronavirus pandemic, according to a quarterly market report released by Edmund Tie.
  Topics: online, space, singapore, retailers, real, lining, pandemic, omnichannel, cent, sales, edmund, silver, retail.
• Only 32% of Irish SMEs with website sell online - Just 69 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises in Ireland have a website. And only 32 percent of these online companies sell products or services online. By not selling online, SMEs are losing their share of the Ireland’s €12.3 billion ecommerce market. Ecommerce in Ireland seems to be more popular… Continue reading
  Topics: international, smes, consumers, irish, retailers, ecommerce, sell, ireland, website, online.
• Pandemic Alters Retail Return Policies - The coronavirus pandemic has forced retailers large and small to make significant, temporary changes to their return practices. Since March, retailers have handled returns in two ways, generally.
  Topics: ecommerce, alters, return, items, returns, policy, example, policies, pandemic, extended, retailers, retail.
• Physical Store Closures Hit a New High in 2019 - 2019 was not a good year for brick-and-mortar stores. As of November 1, U.S. retail store closures reached 9,302, a 59 percent increase over 2018 according to Coresight Research. The biggest contributor was Payless ShoeSource, which declared bankruptcy and closed all of its 2,100 stores.
  Topics: high, physical, store, online, hit, retail, bankruptcy, stores, merchants, retailers, closures, brown.
• Pinterest adds new ‘Shop’ tabs connected to in-stock inventory, style guides and more - Given the rise in online shopping attributed to the coronavirus outbreak that has forced consumers to stay home from stores, Pinterest today is launching a new way to shop on its platform. Now, Pinterest users will be able to browse in-stock inventory from newly added “Shop” tabs on Search and on Pinterest boards. The company […]
  Topics: pins, pinterest, shop, product, connected, inventory, tabs, users, search, style, shoppable, adds, techcrunch, retailers, products, smaller, instock, guides.
• Polish consumers not happy with eco-behavior retailers - About three out of four Polish consumers see environmentally-unfriendly behavior of sellers when they are shopping online. Among this behavior is the use of film for packing shipments, packing food products in plastic bags and packing small products in too large packages with fillers. The Chamber of Digital Economy (Izba… Continue reading
  Topics: shoppers, packing, delivery, products, polish, online, wait, willing, behavior, consumers, ecobehavior, happy, webinar, retailers.
• Posti opens Box, ecommerce-focused premises - Tomorrow, Posti will open a new premises in Helsinki, which is focused on ecommerce for its consumer customers and online retailers. The initiative, called Box, is equipped with fitting rooms, a big parcel locker and a digital kiosk. Box is the postal service’s answer to the rapidly changing ecommerce industry.… Continue reading
  Topics: box, premises, ecommercefocused, online, customer, retailers, used, store, postis, events, posti, opens, customers.
• Print-on-demand platform Moteefe raises €4.5 million - Moteefe, a Dutch platform for on-demand production of merchandise, has raised 5 million dollars (4.54 million euros) in a Series A round led by Gresham House and Force Over Mass Capital. The money will be used for further expansion across the globe, launching new products for large retailers and scaling… Continue reading
  Topics: euros, platform, round, total, merchandise, service, retailers, raised, moteefe, raises, million, printondemand.
• Recommerce Surges as Retailers, Brands Get in the Game - Recommerce, the process of selling used products or excess inventory to companies or consumers, is growing 20-times faster than the broader retail market and five-times faster than off-price retailers. Leading recommerce merchants include thredUP, The RealReal, and Poshmark.
  Topics: items, used, goods, million, company, sellers, game, recommerce, brands, surges, retailers, thredup.
• Regional marketplace Lozuka is booming - Online marketplaces are becoming more popular. This is also the case for regional platforms that bring local retailers and specialty stores together. One such example is Lozuka, which started in the German city Siegen, but is now, as a reaction to Covid-19, available to more regions. Over 25 local retailers… Continue reading
  Topics: webinar, sales, retailers, regional, shopping, platform, siegen, marketplace, lozuka, booming, local, covid19, customers.
• RenovAI helps retailers offer automated interior design advice to their customers - Alon Gilady, CEO of RenovAI, told me his startup is trying to solve the problem that many of us face when we’re moving into a new home — we aren’t interior designers, but we can’t afford to hire real designers, either. Apparently Gilady’s co-founder and vice president of products, Alon Chelben, had this issue himself […]
  Topics: renovai, automated, advice, visualizations, team, gilady, theres, understand, online, interior, design, customers, retailers, techcrunch, opportunity, offer, taste, helps.
• Retail platform Shopdaheim is a success - The German retail platform Shopdaheim is a success. Four weeks after the launch, almost 10.000 dealer addresses from 41 different industries are listed. Every day, clicks in the six-figure range generated through the platform. Shopdaheim is a platform that gives all stationary retailers the opportunity to register free of charge… Continue reading
  Topics: retail, success, german, zeitfracht, stores, platform, support, thalia, retailers, shopdaheim, mayersche.
• Sales Report: 2019 Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday - Adverse weather conditions in many regions and the ease of ordering via mobile devices contributed to record-setting U.S. digital sales for the 2019 Thanksgiving weekend. This is my fifth annual “Sales Report” for Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday.
  Topics: shopping, online, report, increase, sales, cyber, billion, black, day, thanksgiving, retailers.
• Samsung and Facebook help Indian SMEs go live online - Samsung and Facebook have partnered up in India to train retailers to expand into e-commerce via social media platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp.
  Topics: training, online, instagram, indian, retailers, live, samsung, help, smes, facebook, retail, galaxy, local, india, partners.
• Selling CBD Wholesale: CBD Distributor Opportunities & Getting Into the CBD Business - Please note, all references to “CBD” or “CBD products” within this post refers to hemp-derived CBD, not marijuana-derived CBD. The…
  Topics: cbd, hempderived, online, product, distributor, retailers, market, supplier, opportunities, hemp, products, selling, wholesale.
• September: ecommerce events in Europe - It’s september, the kids go back to school. And for many ecommerce fans, it’s also time to visit interesting ecommerce events again. As always, we’ve made a handy overview for you, so you know when and where an ecommerce event takes place this month in Europe. September 11-12: Dmexco –… Continue reading
  Topics: visit, united, ecommerce, place, expo, event, retailers, events, europe, day.
• Shopping malls in the Philippines ‘stronger than ever’ - Shopping malls in the Philippines are bucking international trends and are trading stronger than ever, says retail technology expert Nikki Baird.
  Topics: offer, stronger, retailers, innovations, consumer, shopping, store, global, digital, retail, malls, philippines.
• Should retailers use emoticons in customer service exchanges? - Service providers who use emoticons are perceived as warmer, but less competent, according to a new research paper, which offers sage advice for retail brands engaging with consumers across digital platforms.
  Topics: usage, used, study, emoticons, customer, exchanges, service, emoticon, customers, employee, warmer, retailers.
• Shöpping.at increasingly popular due to Covid-19 - Shöpping.at, the online shopping platform launched by Austrian Post, sees the number of visitors being quadrupled since the coronavirus measures in Austria were put in action. Both customers and retailers are showing growing interest in the online marketplace. Ecommerce and patriotism among consumers are growing in Austria. Shöpping.at, the online… Continue reading
  Topics: austrian, shöppingat, launched, visitors, increasingly, total, retailers, online, platform, growing, popular, covid19, signed.
• Singapore E-commerce Programme breaks barriers to going online - Enterprise Singapore has launched the Singapore E-commerce Programme to support SME retailers with little or no e-commerce experience to commence online trading.
  Topics: breaks, ecommerce, singapore, going, platforms, esg, online, barriers, overseas, programme, little, retailers, using.
• Site Search Tested across 10 Retailers - The search engines found on leading retail websites easily understand common misspellings, butchered brand names, and typographical errors. Your company's site search should too.
  Topics: names, search, sites, tested, example, misspelled, terms, site, retailers, misspellings, results, error.
• Small Business Saturday Builds on Holiday Sales Momentum - More opportunities for growing brands to optimize their holiday operations
  Topics: builds, online, momentum, large, retailers, site, sales, yoy, season, business, revenue, mobile, small, holiday.
• Snapchat goes after retailers and DTC brands with new Dynamic Ads - Snap today is announcing a new kind of advertising product, Dynamic Ads, that will help it to better attract ad dollars from retail, e-commerce and other direct-to-consumer brands — a group that today thrives on Instagram. With Dynamic Ads, advertisers can now automatically create ads in real time based on extensive product catalogs that may […]
  Topics: advertisers, retailers, brands, snap, ads, product, reach, dynamic, goes, snapchat, instagram, dtc, ad, techcrunch.
• South Korean retailers are fighting the e-commerce onslaught with ‘malling’ strategy - Cornered by a low-price offensive from online sellers, South Korean retailers are striking back with a so-called ‘malling’ strategy.
  Topics: mall, outlet, retailers, onslaught, ecommerce, various, malling, suji, paju, premium, stores, strategy, bucheon, south, spend, parking, fighting, korean.
• South Koreans move from malls to markets in Covid-19’s wake - Offline retailers in South Korea are seeing a chance to make a comeback as the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the country eases.
  Topics: retailers, sales, local, supermarkets, malls, covid19s, stores, korea, outbreak, south, coronavirus, wake, koreans, markets.
• Style recommendation startup Stylitics raises $15M - Stylitics, a startup powering outfit-based shopping recommendations for online retailers, is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The company was initially known for ClosetSpace, a mobile app that provided consumers with outfit recommendations and inspiration. While the app is still live, Stylitics’ focus has shifted to its retailer tools — […]
  Topics: startup, style, data, million, raises, 15m, recommendations, wear, shopping, techcrunch, retailer, retailers, recommendation, stylitics, powering.
• Supermercato24 raises 11 million euros - Supermercetato24, an Italian same-day delivery service for online groceries, has raised 11 million euros. The money comes from new investor DIP Capital and current investors FII Tech Growth, 360 Capital Partners and Innogest. The ecommerce company wants to use the investment money to solidify its position in Italy, to deploy… Continue reading
  Topics: raises, service, sameday, euros, money, groceries, retailers, grocery, supermercato24, million, online, position, phase.
• Syte snaps up $21.5M for its smartphone-based visual search engine for e-commerce - Visual search has become a key component for how people discover products when buying online: If a person doesn’t know the exact name of what he or she wants, or what they want is not available, it can be an indispensable tool for connecting them with things they might want to buy. Now, one of […]
  Topics: engine, ecommerce, retailers, 215m, sytes, fryman, way, vision, smartphonebased, syte, techcrunch, company, search, visual, platforms, ventures, snaps.
• Target breaks into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers - Target’s investments in store remodels, same-day delivery and drive-up services are paying off. The retailer, which used to rank No. 11 in U.S. e-commerce sales, is now forecast to jump three spots to break into the top 10 list as the No. 8 retailer, according to a new report from analyst firm eMarketer. This puts […]
  Topics: retailers, online, targets, breaks, shopping, share, target, techcrunch, retail, list, ecommerce, sales, market.
• The 2 Universal KPIs for Ecommerce Retailers - A business's key performance indicators typically change over time with new opportunities and challenges. But Gross Revenue and Gross Profit are universal KPIs for all ecommerce retailers, all of the time.
  Topics: revenue, retailers, checkout, gross, profit, kpis, rate, order, conversion, universal, typically, visitors, ecommerce.
• The 2019 Ecommerce Holiday Readiness Checklist: Technical and Marketing Preparedness — from Local to Global - Some might say that the holidays are a goldmine opportunity for businesses that sell online. After all, it isn’t rare…
  Topics: products, global, shipping, customers, packaging, readiness, holiday, shoppers, checklist, ecommerce, shopping, sales, search, preparedness, retailers, marketing, technical, local.
• The Genesis of Holiday Window Displays - The holiday season in major cities around the world is typically heralded by seasonal window retail displays put up by…
  Topics: marketing, fascinating, holiday, windows, display, owners, retailers, major, store, displays, window, history, york, stores.
• The state of ecommerce delivery in the UK - Ecommerce in the United Kingdom is still booming, with last year’s sales up 11 percent on 2018. This growth is also driving the delivery business. But what is the current state of the UK ecommerce delivery market? To answer this question, Parcelhub interviewed a hundred B2B and B2C mid-market retailers… Continue reading
  Topics: state, consumers, delivery, ecommerce, customer, retailers, parcelhub, united, offer, respondents, service, uk.
• Three big takeaways from the Consumer Census 2019 - As a retail marketer you want to provide your customers with “great” experiences. This much is obvious,but lies behind amazing customer experiences?  We spoke to 4,000 consumers about their expectations, likes and dislikes in our latest piece of research, which you can download from the Ometria Academy. Here are the top 3 takeaways.
  Topics: takeaways, experiences, retailers, data, emails, consumers, messages, marketing, consumer, census, great, big, customers, ai.
• Three reasons why Asian retailers are upgrading their e-commerce platforms - There is currently an almost endless array of technologies and innovations that Asian retailers can invest in as they look to future-proof their business.
  Topics: ecommerce, retail, investment, invest, retailers, reasons, stores, upgrading, online, asian, technology, digital, platforms, omnichannel.
• Trigo raises $22M for an automated grocery check-out platform, similar to Amazon Go - Automated check-out systems in supermarkets, where cashiers are replaced by barcode-readers and touchscreen interfaces for taking payments, have become a commonplace fixture in many parts of the world. But today, a startup that’s building what many believe will be the next generation of such systems — computer-vision-powered platforms that monitor what you take from the […]
  Topics: techcrunch, automated, platform, trigos, raises, checkout, amazon, retailers, stores, company, 22m, similar, trigo, systems, grocery, shopping, technology.
• Trouva, an online marketplace for independent boutiques, raises $22M - Amazon helped pioneer and now dominates the online marketplace business model, where a variety of merchants post items for sale on its platform for billions of consumers to discover and buy them. Today, a London startup that’s taken that idea but is applying it to a far more curated set of retailers and goods has […]
  Topics: independent, boutiques, amazon, sell, marketplace, 22m, stores, retailers, online, singh, shops, techcrunch, buy, raises, trouva.
• UK online retailers deliver 20% faster than usual - Online retailers in the United Kingdom have been delivering parcels almost 20 percent faster than usual. And all this at a time when there is an increase in online orders now the coronavirus Covid-19 is dominating the ecommerce industry. Online retailers and their carriers in the United Kingdom have sped… Continue reading
  Topics: united, deliver, parcel, carriers, delivery, faster, parcels, usual, industry, retailers, increase, online, uk, weeks.
• UK’s top 500 ecommerce revealed - Which online and multichannel retailers are leading the way in the United Kingdom? Every year, Internet Retailing publishes the UK Top500, which features the best-performing online shops in the UK. It’s the sixth year that Internet Retailing publishes the RetailX Top500. The list focuses on both retail brands and consumer… Continue reading
  Topics: ecommerce, revealed, popular, leading, sell, retailers, webinar, uks, magento, online, commerce.
• US online shoppers already spent $50B in November, holiday season on track for $143.7B - Facing a shorter holiday shopping season this year, U.S. retailers started rolling out their Black Friday deals earlier than usual. That move has paid off, according to new e-commerce data shared by Adobe Analytics this morning, which found that U.S. consumers have already spent $50.1 billion online between November 1 and November 26, 2019 — […]
  Topics: shoppers, sales, spent, deals, 50b, billion, days, shopping, holiday, season, track, adobe, 1437b, retailers, online, black, techcrunch, yearoveryear.
• Use dynamic CTAs to close more B2B leads - B2B leads typically require multiple touches before they become customers. You can help leads move quicker through your funnel by dynamically adjusting the landing page content they see.
  Topics: tactics, sales, ctas, community, techcrunch, marketing, growth, dynamic, leads, close, thats, b2b, worlds, offline, retailers, process.
• Using BigCommerce and eBay Integration for Cross-Channel Management - The eBay marketplace has been changing; no longer is it an auction-only site for consumer-to-consumer trading. Here’s the new normal…
  Topics: ebay, bigcommerce, selling, shipping, merchants, reach, listings, retailers, using, products, brands, pdf.
• Walgreens partners with FedEx to accept online returns, print labels - FedEx and Walgreens are partnering to make online returns more convenient, in a move that’s part of a growing trend where brick-and-mortar retailers cater to the needs of e-commerce shoppers in order to increase foot traffic at their stores. Under the new agreement, consumers will be able to drop off their online returns at thousands […]
  Topics: returns, labels, accept, stores, retailers, fedex, walgreens, label, online, techcrunch, printing, partnership, print, partners, customers.
• What does Brexit mean for ecommerce? - The impact on the British economy, despite all the preparations the government and private businesses have taken, is expected to be severe, especially in the case of “No Deal”, which would significantly disrupt Britain’s export-oriented economy. B2C businesses will suffer more in the coming months as tariffs and waiting times will take their toll and force them to raise prices and lower expectations in regards to delivery time. B2B businesses will have to step up with importing large enough volumes of products in order to compensate.
  Topics: mean, does, deal, expected, brexit, products, uk, eu, ecommerce, trade, british, tariffs, retailers.
• WhatsApp and JioMart commence e-commerce rollout - Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries has partnered with Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service to pilot its new online food and grocery channel JioMart in an attempt to redesign Indian retail.
  Topics: whatsapp, consumers, billion, digital, rollout, ecommerce, online, indian, service, stores, retailers, jiomart, commence.
• Whistl helps low volume online retailers - Whistl has launched a local test in the United Kingdom to help online retailers with low volumes. These retailers now get the opportunity to get their parcels to customers with a wider range of delivery options, including 24 and 48 hours services. The delivery management company launched the trial in… Continue reading
  Topics: retailers, wider, helps, online, customers, whistl, low, opportunity, volume, parcels, united, delivery.
• Why Google’s acquisition of Irish startup Pointy is big news for retailers - Google has acquired Irish start-up Pointy, a firm that allows physical stores to make their products discoverable online.
  Topics: retailers, acquisition, big, pointy, users, physical, stores, firm, irish, googles, google, significant, startup, step, potential, technology.
• Why lack of retail innovation is tied to stagnant growth - Retailers are letting financial factors dictate their digital strategies to solve common challenges. While they are heavy users of mobile technology, this tends to be driven more by mobile technology ubiquity and consumer expectations than a desire to innovate the customer experience. Realizing the rewards of smart technology deployments, however, requires bolder thinking and more agile and proactive strategy and tactics to recognize the biggest revenue gains and preparedness against technology-led disruption.
  Topics: tied, mobile, retail, innovation, technology, risk, retailers, lack, partners, innovators, stagnant, right, financial, growth, knot.
• Will ‘New Retail’ help D2C brands succeed offline? - Retail as a service is great for brands to test ideas. But are they going to make venture-scale money?
  Topics: d2c, wholesale, techcrunch, succeed, brands, going, money, offline, help, companies, retail, retailers, service.
• Zalando: ‘double-digit growth in 2020’ - Zalando expects to grows its Gross Merchandise Volume by 10 to 20 percent this year. Its revenue is also expected to increase in the same range. Meanwhile, the overall fashion market is expected to decrease by about 28 percent due to the coronavirus outbreak. Recent research from McKinsey shows the… Continue reading
  Topics: growth, zalandos, program, customers, doubledigit, partners, zalando, retail, retailers, fashion, past.
• ‘Online retailers are failing disabled customers’ - Scope, a disability charity from the United Kingdom, has started a campaign called ‘the Big Hack’ to make retailers aware of digital exclusion. Still, many disabled customers can’t shop online in a proper way. The Big Hack is a movement aim to make the digital world better for disable people.… Continue reading
  Topics: text, failing, customers, online, data, wants, websites, disabled, spending, shop, dont, retailers.
• ‘Return fee could avoid 16% of all returns’ - Consumers in Germany will order products online with a total value of 70 billion euros this year. But every sixth parcel will be returned. In order to contain this process a bit, a legally required return fee could help, economic researchers say. Ecommerce in Germany is expected to grow 11… Continue reading
  Topics: data, retailers, fee, returns, avoid, million, online, tool, size, return.