holiday shopping

Retail Pulse: Allbirds Unveils Manhattan Flagship; Amazon Go Opens Third Store
Retail Pulse: Allbirds Unveils Manhattan Flagship; Amazon Go Opens Third Store
September 07, 2018  |  Retail

Digitally native brands, especially those that sell tactile products like footwear, are seeing an offline opportunity in opening flagship stores in major cities. Shoe brand...

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2017 Holiday Shopping Mostly Took Place In Stores
2017 Holiday Shopping Mostly Took Place In Stores
September 05, 2018  |  Retail

It was a good holiday season for online retailers in 2017 — particularly Amazon. According to Gartner, online retail sales rose 14.7 percent year-over-year during...

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Father’s Day Commerce: Shopping For, With And To Be More Like Dad
Father’s Day Commerce: Shopping For, With And To Be More Like Dad
June 16, 2018  |  Retail

Father’s Day has always had some trouble engendering the kind of enthusiasm for gift giving that Mother’s Day does — and we mean always. The holiday was...

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Mobile Dominated Online Ordering By End Of 2017
Mobile Dominated Online Ordering By End Of 2017
February 07, 2018  |  Mobile Payments

Mobile traffic and mobile orders hit new highs during the fourth quarter, based on Salesforce’s fourth-quarter shopping index. According to a report in Footwear News,...

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Holiday eCommerce Fraud Attempts Jumped In 2017
Holiday eCommerce Fraud Attempts Jumped In 2017
January 16, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Attempts to commit online fraud jumped during the holiday season, increasing 22 percent from Thanksgiving to December compared to a year ago. That’s according to...

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Consumer Confidence Dips In December
Consumer Confidence Dips In December
December 28, 2017  |  Retail

Consumer confidence declined during the month of December, coming off historic highs in November, CNBC reported Wednesday (Dec. 27). Citing nonprofit research company The Conference...

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Holiday Season Cons: More Calls Mean More Fraud For Contact Centers
Holiday Season Cons: More Calls Mean More Fraud For Contact Centers
December 22, 2017  |  Fraud Prevention

No news probably isn’t good news when it comes to call center fraud during the holidays. IntraNext CEO Patrick Brown told Karen Webster in a...

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Cash Registers Crater At Russian Retailers
Cash Registers Crater At Russian Retailers
December 21, 2017  |  Retail

A failure of some internet-connected cash registers in Russia has resulted in billions of rubles in lost sales during the holiday season, according to a...

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Most Online Shoppers Shopped Mainly Amazon This Holiday Season
Most Online Shoppers Shopped Mainly Amazon This Holiday Season
December 20, 2017  |  Amazon

U.S. consumers will hit the internet for the majority of their gifts this holiday season, marking the second year in a row based on CNBC’s...

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