Google’s 2019 global shopping insights report shows that consumers are increasingly becoming omnichannel creatures of habit. The implication is that retailers and online sellers need to be very ...
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By Stefan Merz, COO at PPRO The e-commerce market is set for exponential growth – it is predicted that global e-commerce retail sales are set to reach $4.9 ...
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When we last covered Honey last November, it was just acquired by PayPal for $4 billion. Analysts weren’t quite sure what to make of PayPal’s strategy and the ...
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A new collaboration between Visa and smartphone maker Samsung electronics brings simple mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) payment capability to millions of businesses without the need for expensive hardware, maintenance, ...
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While overall retail sales grew during this year’s holiday season, it was mostly online sales that delivered results with in-store sales stagnant or down in most department stores ...
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There’s a costly hitch to the happy e-commerce sales estimated at $138.5 billion for 2019. CBRE Group and Optoro estimate the cost of product returns from US online ...
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The good news is US Black Friday weekend holiday sales grew an estimated 19.7% according to Adobe Analytics. The bad news according to LexisNexis® Risk Solutions (LNRS) is ...
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In Amazon we trust. Many online buyers check Amazon and other online product reviews and prices before purchasing online. Understandable, but are we being faked out by fake ...
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Online grocery shopping is a growing trend that major retailers have already zeroed in on, offering everything from dairy and produce to packaged foods and other goods. You ...
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When it comes to online fraud, US Thanksgiving was a turkey for online sellers as online fraud jumped 29% compared to 2018 according to new research from fraud ...
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