| View Article | www.forbes.com Discounts pushed online holiday purchases into October this year, but consumers spent slightly less … [+] getty Adobe’s October ecommerce report, released today, could be an early indicator of how the holiday season will play out this year. Consumers spent $72.2 billion online in October, a hair less than the…
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| View Article | venturebeat.com Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now . In the ecommerce world, digital images are everything. A new platform is using artificial intelligence (AI) to give brands the ability to evaluate…
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| View Article | www.pymnts.com Payments innovators are pushing past omnichannel retailing to meld POS-capable channels tied to databases. It’s a unified commerce approach that brings capabilities like checkout anywhere on the sales floor. By creating digital environments in physical retail spaces, new customer interactions are enabled that not only allow consumers to skip the…
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| View Article | ibsintelligence.com Ed Whitehead, Managing Director, EMEA for Signifyd Industry players are on a mission to differentiate themselves, while merchants and consumers are demanding innovative ways to pay for what they buy. A seamless payment experience is becoming more and more important to consumers and therefore merchants as eCommerce continues to be…
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| View Article | myhfa.org Buying furniture is strictly an in-store experience for some who want to feel the grain of the wood or test the comfort of the cushions. Increasingly , people prefer the convenience of ordering from an online catalog and having their new couch or table delivered home. Many merchants looking to…
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| View Article | www.retaildive.com Permission granted by Coveo AI and machine learning touch every industry today, but it’s sometimes unclear how they improve the bottom line. In addition to automating tedious processes or helping you discover trends, can this tech boost sales and margins? The answer is absolutely “yes.” Here are three ways we’re…
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| View Article | www.eseller365.com During Black Friday this year, consumers spent $9.12 billion online shopping —a new record—as overall online sales for Black Friday were up 2.3% year-over-year. While the holiday season is often front and center as a trigger for micro or small-to-medium business hypergrowth, there are plenty of other “peak” events throughout…
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| View Article | www.retailtouchpoints.com Brand growth relies on loyal consumers. In fact, repeat business from existing customers generates 65% of most companies’ revenue . Current customers experience less friction in the path to purchase because they know the brand and its products. If they had great previous brand experiences, they expect the same for…
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| View Article | www.retailtouchpoints.com Amazon attracts a remarkable 2.5 billion monthly visitors to its site on average, more than 5X the 429 million who visit the Walmart site, but it appears Walmart is becoming adept at doing more with less in the ecommerce arena. It’s true that Amazon’s $50.9 billion in ecommerce sales outstrips…
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