MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Starting at midnight Wednesday, Amazon will be offering huge discounts on 1,000 items to its Prime members. The online retailer has deemed Wednesday, July 15, Prime Day. Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, is responding with deals on 2,000 of its items.
So, as these two companies battle for people’s dollars, where do we shop? Good Question.
“People shop at the same old stores they always have,” said David Brennan, a retail expert with the University of St. Louis. Thomas. “That’s why it’s hard for small retailers to get into the game.”
Shoppers are generally creatures of habit…
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…
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…
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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…