Retailo, a Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, company that digitizes retail operations in the Middle East and North Africa and recently called itself “the fastest growing startup in the Middle East,” acquired United Arab Emirates B2B eCommerce platform DXBUY, according to published reports. DXBUY describes itself as...
Walmart is exploring eCommerce innovations, which will offer customers more ways to get home delivery, according to a company blog post. The company is building more automated fulfillment centers attached to existing stores. It will also be experimenting with autonomous trucks and using its own workers...
As far as buzzwords go, one must tip their hat to the enduring power of “omnichannel.” Take a time machine and travel back about 15 years, and one will hear merchants and consultants talking about providing consumers with omnichannel experiences that combine digital and physical...
Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. Customers online leave behind all kinds of data in their wake — who they are, how often...
May 30, 2019
As far as buzzwords go, one must tip their hat to the enduring power of “omnichannel.” Take a time machine and travel back about 15 years, and one will hear merchants and consultants talking about providing consumers with omnichannel experiences that combine digital and physical parts of retail. Now, the word omnichannel more often refers […]
March 26, 2019
Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. Customers online...
November 09, 2018
It’s not your father’s customer loyalty anymore. The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not...
November 05, 2018
Consumers want to touch before they buy, and they want to talk when they purchase. Those promise to stand as two main traits of the 2018 holiday shopping season, and...
February 27, 2022
Walmart is exploring eCommerce innovations, which will offer customers more ways to get home delivery, according to a company blog post. The company is building more automated fulfillment centers attached to existing stores. It will also be experimenting with autonomous trucks and using its own workers to make deliveries, along with expanding a service where staffers […]
May 18, 2016
Target’s first quarter earnings reported May 18 were a mixed bag. While Target beat analysts’ expectations, and digital continued to grow, there was one glaring reality out of Target’s earnings...
December 08, 2015
Forbes columnist Nikki Baird is on a mission to review the digital strategies of all of the National Retail Federation’s Top 100 retailers list and, in the process, evaluate which...
August 19, 2015
Both Target and Walmart’s earnings results showed the retail giants are focused on driving up sales by focusing on digital, but, as the past few quarters have shown, one retailer...