The holidays are where 30% of sales are made for the year according to the US National Retail Federation. McKinsey & Company report that nearly one-third of consumers expect to spend more this year than last, and retailers are going to need to personalize in ...
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Hard on the heels of Best Buy’s free holiday delivery announcement last week, Amazon today released details of its expanded free delivery services for the upcoming holiday season. The new services will provide Amazon Prime members in the US with Free One-Day delivery for more ...
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Online consumer research company Jumpshot is out with a new research report that provides helpful insight into the top 25 US e-commerce sites and what direction these leaders are headed – both up and down. In its analysis of more than 1.5 billion US online ...
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Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium is cashless We’ve all gone on wild goose chases looking for the nearest ATM after learning a local business only accepts cash. But now more than ever, businesses are heading in the opposite direction: refusing to accept cash and only accepting plastic. ...
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Another week, another great global payments news roundup for you. Best Buy just threw down the free next-day holiday delivery gauntlet for its competitors. Kount and BlueSnap have partnered to enable and encourage international e-commerce for US companies. Look, up in the sky, it’s Wing ...
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Holiday season sales haven’t really started yet but the competition for online sales coupled with special free or discount delivery options just heated up. Best Buy announced it will offer free next-day delivery on online purchases over $35 through Christmas Day for the first time. ...
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With global e-commerce likely to reach a record of nearly $3.5 trillion in 2019, why are more US businesses not making bigger headway in growing their international e-commerce sales? New research from fraud prevention solution company Kount and payments processor BlueSnap suggests fraud concerns and ...
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Residents of Christiansburg, Virginia will be looking to the sky a lot more in the near future, and it won’t be with a prayer. Rather, they’ll be buzzing about Walgreens, FedEx and Sugar Magnolia package deliveries by Alphabet subsidiary Wing Aviation’s fleet of drones. Wing ...
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The global payments news is just about as busy as the impeachment proceedings in the US but we’ve got important payments news to share. Lightico research looks at what Gen Z wants from their bank and it’s way more digital than their Dad’s bank. Juniper ...
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If you’re like most e-commerce and online sellers, online shopping cart abandonment may be causing you to lose between 60% and 80% of potential sales in addition to other problems caused by fulfillment order challenges. Here are 10 e-commerce shopping cart and order fulfillment stats ...
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