Here comes the bride, here comes the bride– Shh! Be quiet! She’s coming, and we’re not allowed to make a peep! Nowadays, brides and grooms can get extremely creative with their weddings: holding the ceremony in an exotic location, designating a theme for everyone to dress in, and eloping at […]
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Online retailers have all sorts of tricks for getting consumers to buy more and buy faster. The people who create those tricks don’t really even try to hide them. A cursory Google search reveals all sorts of marketers advertising their tools to help merchants boost sales. They boast countdown timers […]
Have you ever shopped around online to find the best possible deal, clicked the checkout button, walked away smug at your sleuthing – only to find someone else got the same thing from the same place for an even cheaper price? This is the result of personalised pricing: also known […]
SAN FRANCISCO — To some, Black Friday means camping out and waiting in lines to score bargains in the overnight or morning hours. Others say they’ll be filling up their carts from the comfort of their couch all week long. It seems like it’s hard to define when Black Friday […]
Almost one-quarter of US online adults expect to spend more for the 2022 holiday season than they did in 2021, per Forrester’s October 2022 Consumer Energy Index And Retail Pulse Survey. Another 45% expect to spend about the same amount again, while the remaining 21% expect their spending to decrease. […]
The holiday season is one of the busiest times of year for our customers. And when it comes to online shopping, customers want a great experience that takes the guesswork out of shopping and makes it easy for them to find the perfect item. They don’t want to buy a […]
For years Google has been stalking Amazon in e-commerce with little to show for it in ground gained. Now, just as Amazon stock may get a further lift from a logistics-based initiative, Google stock could be poised to benefit from a turnabout in its online shopping strategy. X On the […]
A large, gold Viking ring crafted from twisted metal strands turned up in a very unexpected place: a heap of cheap jewelry a woman in Norway purchased at an online auction. Archaeologists think the ring may be more than 1,000 years old and once belonged to a powerful Viking chief. […]
We’ve all been there—scrolling through eBay or stopping at a roadside antique store, sorting through jewelry and thinking: “What if I find a really valuable antique in here?” Most of the time, that doesn’t happen. But a young Norwegian woman, Mari Ingelin Heskestad, found herself living out that dream when […]
Gemist is offering a unique online shopping model with their try-on boxes. Courtesy of Gemist With the global fine jewelry market projected to hit $340 billion by 2025, 18-21% of those sales are forecasted to be made online. The rise of online fine jewelry shopping is largely due to the […]
With Westfield Malls’ European owner announcing it’s looking to unload its portfolio of American malls by next year, the outlook seems grim for U.S. shopping malls amid the e-commerce boom. However, consumer and retail expert Natalie Kotlyar, managing partner at BDO USA, believes malls still have life left in them. […]
The conventional wisdom has been that the pandemic will spark a widespread and permanent shift in American habits from analog to digital. But what about that most basic habit — grocery shopping? Americans spend more on groceries than almost anything else, and how we buy food is considered a finger […]
