Tag: online retail

February 14, 2024

U.S. retailers expect import growth through the first half of 2024 despite continued delays at the Suez Canal and terrorist attacks on ships in the Red Seas, according to the Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation […]

January 29, 2024

The world of online retail has really opened up over the last ten years. From groceries and apparel, to furniture and collector’s items, anything and everything is up for grabs from the comfort of your home or the palm of […]

May 4, 2023

The fact that online retail stocks have slumped globally since the highs of the pandemic is no secret. Whilst lockdowns and store closures brought an ecommerce gold rush, contrary to many predictions, as restrictions eased and normality resumed, growth started […]

March 3, 2023

Online grocery shopping remains popular with customers, even if some surveys show a slight reduction in the use of the service since its peak of adoption early in the novel coronavirus pandemic. But when it comes to shopping for perishables […]

January 27, 2023

Despite proclamations that bricks-and-mortar retail is dead, several major ecommerce companies have recently been exploring the physical shopping environment. For digitally native brands, pop-up stores can offer a small, yet valuable window to make a memorable impression with consumers. By […]

January 24, 2023

Amazon is expanding its partnership with Stripe, deepening the two companies’ long-standing relationship. Under the new agreement, Stripe will become a strategic payments partner for Amazon in the US, Europe, and Canada, processing a significant portion of Amazon’s total payments […]

January 13, 2023

Google Cloud has launched four new and updated AI solutions for ecommerce, designed to “modernise the online shopping experience”. The machine learning technologies have been designed to help retailers boost consumer browsing capabilities, transform in-store shelf checking processes, provide better […]

January 11, 2023

Buy now Pay Later usage hit an all time high over Christmas, with 34% of UK shoppers using the service to spread the cost of purchases, according to a report by credit agency Equifax. The research reveals that one in […]

January 10, 2023

Online sales growth tumbled by 12% year-on-year in December, its lowest figure since March when lockdown comparisons were still affecting the rate, according to data from IMRG. IMRG’s Online Retail Index, which tracks online sales for 200 retailers, showed that […]

December 29, 2022

Within the last 10 years, the retail industry has experienced an unprecedented digital transformation, further supercharged by the pandemic. In fact, since the pandemic began in 2020, e-commerce has grown two to five times faster than years previous, and in […]

December 16, 2022

Retail bosses are urging consumers to shop in-store if they want to receive Christmas gifts on time, as ongoing Royal Mail strikes are set to cause severe disruption. Royal Mail workers up and down the country will strike across December, […]

December 14, 2022

Fashion retailer New Look has partnered with digital payments firm Primer, to enhance its ecommerce operations. Founded by alums of Braintree and PayPal, the payments company provides a drag and drop framework for merchants to build online payment stacks. The […]

December 13, 2022

Across the biggest retail events of the calendar year, ecommerce websites had to handle up to 80% more website traffic than normal, according to a new report by cloud hosting platform Platform.sh. Among the 12,000 websites that run on Platform.sh […]

December 6, 2022

Same-day delivery service DoorDash recently announced the layoff of 1,250 corporate workers, raising questions as to whether this is a result of a company in trouble, a contracting vertical, an impending recession or elements of two or three of the […]

November 29, 2022

YouTube in late 2020 launched its Shorts feature to keep up with a new generation of competing video services posting short-form content. Now YouTube has added an e-commerce element to Shorts, so customers can buy as the minute-long videos fly […]

November 8, 2022

In 2021, returns cost retailers a whopping $761 billion, or almost 17% of total U.S. retail sales. This year the powerful combination of the special sale dates in Q4 (like Target, Amazon and Walmart holding October Black Friday events) and […]

November 4, 2022

Online influencer platform LTK has expanded its executive leadership team, appointing former Groupon and eBay executive Jeremy Paterson as general manager of its international division. Paterson will lead efforts to “advance the opportunity for creators, brands and shoppers in international […]

October 31, 2022

The “Annual State of Shipping Study” from UPS Capital, UPS’s financing arm, finds porch piracy, fraud and climate-related issues to be the top emerging threats facing online delivery. On those threats, the survey of 500 merchants and 1,000 online shoppers […]

October 21, 2022

Online retail figures have showed resilience despite the wider industry’s decline. With the proportion of retail sales online rising to 26.4%. The wider sector saw a drop in sales, which was compounded by inflation and also the addition of the […]

October 18, 2022

UK online retail sales fell by 3.3% in September year-on-year, the fourth consecutive month as rising levels on inflation hit consumers in their wallets, according to the IMRG Capgemini Online Retail Index. The numbers represented a minor improvement on August’s […]