We can forget the fluffy socks and novelty presents this year. Shoppers will focus on gifting items that people need, over what they want, due to tightened budgets during the current economic uncertainty, according to new research.
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic slashed $22 trillion off company valuations worldwide in Q1 2020, according to new data.
AliExpress has unveiled a real time livestreaming translation feature to let merchants and live streamers to achieve international success in the 2020 11.11 Global Shopping Festival.
As consumers are urged to start Christmas shopping early this year to support retailers, new research examining seasonal shopping behaviour has found that as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the vast majority of consumers are happy to shift to online when it comes to buying gifts this year.
Pets at Home is launching an express 60-minute Click & Collect service to make online shopping as convenient as possible for customers.
Luggage manufacturer and retailer, Samsonite, has partnered with behavioural marketing technology provider Wunderkind (formerly BounceX), to improve on-site experiences and increase digital revenues.
Online retail is forecast to increase between 36%-38% over last year’s, which will make this holiday season the greatest spike in online shopping in history, according to new research.
Shoppers’ use of mobile phones for orders exploded during the last peak shopping period – which includes Black Friday-centred Peak Week, through to Boxing Day – further reducing desktop and tablets’ share, according to new data.
Over a third of Brits (35%) do not have any festive savings and almost 40% have confessed to being more selective about who they’re buying presents for this Christmas, according to new research.
UK-based marketing, payments and loyalty company Yoyo and wiGroup, the South African-based mobile rewards software company are joining forces to create a global loyalty company under the Yoyo brand.
The 100 most valuable Chinese brands gained 12% in value this year, with Alibaba holding number one position with a rise of 9% to $153bn, while Moutai rose two places to number three, according to new data.
Food brand Yeo Valley Organic has rolled out connected packaging across all products as part of their new ‘Put Nature First’ brand platform.
From a US omnichannel Super Bowl campaign to and Indonesian Instagram Live shopping event, we look at some of best-in-class ecommerce case studies from around the world.
Global eCommerce platform Kooomo advises retailers to use last year’s cyber-weekend as inspiration for their future response.
A holistic view of retail stock increases the number of products available to online shoppers by 21%, according to new research.
UK brands and retailers are failing to covert one-time buyers, some pushed online for the first time during lockdown, into frequent purchasers through a lack of loyalty programmes and personalised content, according to new research.
Total UK till sales growth in the last four weeks ending 3rd October increased from 5.6% to 8.3% year on year, as shoppers are continuing to move towards online shopping, with online FMCG growth up by 91% in the last four weeks.
International online sales are predicted to increase by 120% year-on-year (YOY) during October, peaking in the last weeks of the month, as consumers shop earlier for Christmas pulling sales forward and away from the traditional twin peaks of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to new research.
UK hard seltzer brand Served is launching its range on Amazon after sell-out successes in Selfridges and Planet Organic.
UK consumers are determined not to let the latest round of Covid restrictions ruin Christmas this year, according to new research.
