Category: E-commerce

September 23, 2022

The following checklist will help you to be prepared for your big moment. Your launch day is certainly a memorable one, full of both excitement and hard work. By ensuring that you are ready beforehand, you can reduce stress on […]

September 20, 2022

Online retail sales tumbled by -4.1% year-on-year (YoY) in August 2022, marking the 17th month in a row of negative growth since May 2021, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini Online Retail Index. This decline reverses the positive progress seen […]

September 16, 2022

“Marketplace” seems to be the buzzword in ecommerce at the moment, and why not? The widespread success of the model is there for everybody to see, with marketplaces currently accounting for around 40% of the UK’s total online spend. Pureplay […]

September 16, 2022

With 12 to 24 million online retail sites available worldwide, the growth of ecommerce has not happened in a vacuum. Brands are responding to the demand from consumers and the potential revenue to be made. It is estimated the ecommerce […]

September 16, 2022

Amazon has announced that it will give ecommerce merchants free software for managing shoppers’ orders on and off its platform, as the retailer extends its reach. The company will be ending monthly fees for Veeqo, a shipping software firm it […]

September 13, 2022

As a business owner, you know the importance of using social media to promote your products or services. Instagram is the perfect place for that—being a visual platform, it makes it easy to showcase your products and services. To step […]

September 13, 2022

Facebook has over 2.9 billion monthly active users, making it one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. With such a large potential customer base, it’s no wonder that businesses are using Facebook to sell their products […]

September 13, 2022

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos with others on the app. Since the platform has been growing in popularity, you may be wondering if it is a good platform for you […]

September 12, 2022

JCPenney is doubling down on its inclusivity efforts in the beauty space through a new partnership with Revieve, offering a collection of AR- and AI-powered beauty and skincare experiences. The new digital experiences have launched a little over a year […]

September 7, 2022

When Charged sat down to chat to Shopify director of EMEA expansions and partnerships Deann Evans, she said was “really keen” to join the company in August 2021 on its “mission to help more and more merchants.” However since then, […]

September 1, 2022

Alibaba.com has announced the launch of ‘Super September’, its largest B2B sales event of the year. Super September will connect more than 40 million buyers and 200 thousand suppliers from around the world to help them discover new products, services, […]

August 30, 2022

Consumer electronics is a rather crowded space with a swarm of brands trying to make their presence felt in every category — from wearables to televisions and headphones to laptops. Unless a shopper knows exactly what they’re looking to buy, […]

August 29, 2022

Apple recently announced its big move into Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL). This new payment method will attract more purchases and allow customers to spread costs over several payments interest free, but buying now and paying later also attracts fraudsters […]

August 26, 2022

Put simply, headless commerce is an ecommerce system that decouples the front-end web system from the ecommerce back-end engine. Most digital stores are built on ecommerce engines that provide both the product offering and processing engine, which is directly integrated […]

August 15, 2022

Through a special arrangement, presented here for discussion is an excerpt of a current article from the blog of Dave Wendland, VP, strategic relations at Hamacher Resource Group and Forbes Council Member. The article first appeared on Forbes.com. With today’s […]

August 8, 2022

While the COVID-19 pandemic drove the rapid rise of e-commerce in 2020, some of the retail growth shifted from online to offline in 2021, Forrester noted. Brick-and-mortar retail sales rose 14% in 2021 compared to 2020, according to the report. […]

August 4, 2022

At the start of the year, there was a lot of talk regarding the potential for livestream shopping to become popular in the U.S. — a commerce format already successful in China. Meta doesn’t appear to share that confidence, at […]

August 4, 2022

High street retailer Next has revealed its online shopping has grounded to a halt, whilst in-store retail has had a “renaissance”. As retail sales recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic, online growth reverted back to its longer term trajectory, the retailer […]

August 2, 2022

Inflation is breaking records — and retailers’ forecasts. Consumer behavior has shifted so swiftly since the beginning of the year that major retailers are faced with clearing excess inventory and recalculating financial expectations as prices continue to rise. Target is […]

July 28, 2022

“Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) services, such as Affirm, Afterpay, Clearpay and Klarna, saw explosive adoption as e-commerce upshifted into a higher gear during the pandemic, but are now facing questions over their sustainability against a tide of rising interest […]