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 ...
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 ...
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 ...