Archive for the ‘Comparison shopping’ Category

Mobile Retail - Coming to any Store near You

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Forrester’s Sucharita Mulpuru (@smulpuru) has a new research report out with interesting findings about emerging trends in mobile and multi-channel retail. Overall, the report confirms that the mobile web is on the cusp of becoming a game-changer for both web and brick-and-mortar retailers. Smartphone users are becoming as likely to ...

Online Holiday Sales Catch Up… But Margins Will Suffer

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Deep discounts and free shipping promotions have sparked a catch up in holiday online sales, as exhibited in the chart below. However, remember this holiday season is one week shorter than last year, so holiday sales might well end up coming short overall. Consumers have been very receptive and ...

Will Cyber-Monday Online Sales Hold?

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Historically, online sales on cyber Monday have been a good indicator of ecommerce’s year over year growth for the Holiday season. ComScore reports that online sales for this year’s Black Friday grew a measly 2% year over year. “Early reports suggest that Black Friday sales in retail stores were slightly ...