By Jeff Domansky, Dec 15, 2020 It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas and that means last-minute online shopping, higher incidence of fraud, potential delivery delays, and the expectation of a record number of gift and online shopping returns. We’ve got a few holiday ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Dec 12, 2020 As new COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations threaten to overwhelm the US health system, 85% of US small businesses say they need government relief funds now to survive to June 2021. A poll of 5,000 small business owners conducted by ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Dec 9, 2020 Like many other businesses, the restaurant industry is struggling for its life, and new research shows the fragile, slow recovery through October has now slipped backward in November. Pay-at-the-table technology firm TableSafe’s research data shows restaurant transaction volumes declined ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Dec 2, 2020 Apparently, porch pirates are alive and well, preying on online shoppers and stealing as many as 17 million packages from consumer porches and verandas since the start of the pandemic in March, according to new research from insuranceQuotes.com. In ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Dec 1, 2020 As predicted by most industry analysts, Cyber Monday was another roaring e-commerce success with sales reaching an estimated $10.8 billion by Adobe Analytics, up 15.1% from last year’s $9.4 billion. While impressive, sales fell short of Adobe’s earlier prediction ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Nov 30, 2020 Black Friday looked very different this year from previous years. Initial results show US consumers shopped from their couches with a vengeance, racking up more than $9 billion in Black Friday purchases online. During the pandemic, Thanksgiving Day shopping ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Nov 25, 2020 Retailers and other online sellers have their fingers crossed for a mega Black Friday sales launch leading into the all-important holiday shopping season. In fact, for many businesses, this is all about survival. The National Retail Federation’s (NRF) forecasts ...
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By James Brear, CEO, Zycada This has been a rough year for retailers, with the pandemic taking a steep toll across most of the industry. An eMarketer study found that COVID-19 will hurt retailers worse than the Great Recession, estimating that worldwide retail revenue will ...
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It’s all over except for deliveries and returns for Amazon Prime Day 2020 as sales by the estimated 2.3 million third-party small and midsized sized sellers exceeded a record $3.5 billion (up nearly 60%) across 19 countries participating in the annual sales love-in. Amazon is ...
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After a big spike in global e-commerce growth through the pandemic which sectors are consistently winning and which are softening as we near the end of Q3 and the start of the holiday shopping season? A new report from Nosto analyzes six key e-commerce sectors ...
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