Consumers will have wider and easier cross-border access to products, hotel bookings, car rentals, music festivals or leisure park tickets in the EU, under new rules addressing unjustified geo-blocking. The legislation approved by the European Parliament in February 2018 begins applying on Monday, 3 December.
Róża Thun (EPP, PL), who steered this legislation through Parliament, said: “This is another step forward in creating a true single market where all consumers are treated equally. When buying products abroad, all of us will now have the right to be treated like local consumers.
We can no longer be denied access to the…
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Top Ways Walmart is Changing How Customers Shop
Who doesn’t love skipping a line? Now across the nation, our new Check Out With Me service allows our customers to do just that. Outfitted with cellular devices and Bluetooth printers, associates complete the checkout process from anywhere on the sales floor, and provide a receipt via print, text or email.
Dotcom Store App
You’ll never leave a store without getting what you need thanks to the Dotcom Store App. Using their handheld devices, this technology gives associates the power to help customers shop Walmart.com if the item they’re looking for is out of stock. Customers can pay at any…
Shrinking warehouse space in high demand due to pandemic-era online shopping
A boom in online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic is making it tough to find warehouse space in many provinces, industry insiders say.
Industrial space is being gobbled up at a dizzying rate as companies expand their storage and fulfillment centers to cope with the demands of e-commerce.
“We’re seeing multiple offers on any space that’s available, especially anything that’s existing and you can occupy this year,” said Jason Kiselbach, senior vice-president and managing director of commercial real estate company CBRE Vancouver.
“It’s super competitive.”
At the start of April, the company said Canada’s industrial markets were the tightest in…
Making It Easier to Shop and Sell on Our Apps
Update on February 22, 2021 at 6:00AM PT:
We’re starting to roll out Facebook Shop to people in Canada and the UK.
Originally published on August 25, 2020 at 8:00AM PT:
Today we’re introducing Facebook Shop, a new place to discover businesses and shops for products in the Facebook app, and we’re expanding checkout on Instagram to all US businesses and creators.
We’re also making Shops available to any eligible business and adding customization features, messaging and new insights.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the shift to online shopping has rapidly accelerated, with an estimate 85% of people worldwide now shop…
Mobile Commerce Is The Under-The-Radar Story In Consumers’ Flight To Digital Shopping
“Retail needs to be fun and entertaining, not a chore. And mobile phones can allow you to do that,” … [+] says Bhrugu Pange, managing director of technology services at AArete.
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Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan famously said, “The medium is the message,” in his seminal book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published in 1964. Back then the medium were television, movies, books, newspapers and magazines. He couldn’t have imagined the explosion of mediums that carry the message in the digital age.
Today the ultimate “extension of man” is the mobile device. If mobile is the medium, then mobile…
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November 26, Black Friday
Black Friday, traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year, is set to begin on Friday, Nov. 26 of this year. Experts are expecting the rise in online shopping to make an impact on in-store purchases. Instead of setting the alarm to brave crowds for deeply discounted items, dedicated shoppers may look for deals online, similar to last year.
According to the National Retail Federation, holiday shopping this year has the potential to shatter previous records, with holiday sales during November and December predicted between $843 – $859 billion, an 8.5 – 10.5…
‘Location, location, location.’ How where you live influences how you shop online.
In the digital era, there’s no doubt consumers are more connected to each other and to global retail brands than ever before.
But despite this connectivity, researcher David R. Bell makes the case in his new book, “Location is (Still) Everything,” that the neighborhoods we live in — and the acquaintances we encounter there — still have deep influence on how we shop.
That may have seemed intuitive in an era in which shopping was done at the corner store. But Bell, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School who specializes in digital marketing and e-commerce, says those…
How COVID-19 Is Transforming E-Commerce
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Just over 306 million Americans are affected by stay-at-home orders, nearly 95% of the US population. COVID-19 will forever change retailing, and its initial impact on e-Commerce is creating challenges to online selling & service no one imagined in January. The following graphic from COVID-19 Commerce Insight, an Emarsys initiative in collaboration with GoodData shows how year-over-year revenue growth comparing the last seven days to the same period last year:
Mobile devices are the most popular devices for online shopping by a wide margin. 72% of consumers are using mobile devices to shop in stores according to the latest…