
Prime Day brings a price battle between Amazon Echo and Google Home
With Prime Day just hours away, both Amazon and Google are hoping to woo shoppers with discounts on their smart speakers — but Amazon’s...

Amazon Prime hits 85M member milestone, researchers say
With Amazon’s third annual Prime Day just days away, new research out today estimates that the program has grown by 35 percent in the...

No longer brick-and-mortar vs. online retail: Customers view a ‘single lens’
By offering complementary benefits, as well as engaging customers via mobile, both in-store and online retailer channels can strengthen...

As Amazon continues its rampant growth, will traditional retailers survive online?
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a knack for keeping his e-commerce site front and center of today’s headlines. Last week, the company announced...

Amazon’s Prime Day 2017 is a 30-hour event this year
Amazon has added an extra six hours to this year’s Prime Day event, now a 30-hour period scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. ET July 10 and last...

When it comes to building brand infatuation, easy does it
While the scene is a parody of the tech-obsessed culture, it may someday become reality as brands evolve to meet the ever-rising...

Be careful what you ask for: How a Supreme Court victory for manufacturers helped Amazon
Do a search on Amazon for “Leegin Creative Leather,” and you’ll find two very nice leather belts: A search online, however, for “Leegin...

Four ways brands can boost retail channel sales through content
To stay competitive, brands must capitalize on the online presence and sizable audiences of their retail partners. But rather than...

Why is Amazon buying Whole Foods? The opportunity of online grocery [Podcast]
The dust is still settling after Amazon announced its plans last week to spend almost $14 billion for Whole Foods and its chain of 400+...

Amazon’s new Prime Wardrobe program is another swing at traditional retailers
Jeramey Lende / Shutterstock.com Amazon is taking another swing at traditional retailers with the announcement of Prime Wardrobe, a...

Amazon buying Whole Foods for nearly $14 billion. What now?
What will Amazon do with Whole Foods’ more than 400 local retail grocery stores? Among the many scenarios, the Seattle-based company...

How to solve the mystery of what your customers really want
How well do you really know your customers? If your company is like most brands, you already realize that you don’t really know them at...

Brands are facing a whole new world of retail realities
Things are far different for retailers today — so different, in fact, that brick-and-mortar retail is under a massive three-pronged...

Shopify’s business assistant bot Kit is now free to merchants
If you’re one of the 400,000 or so merchants on Shopify, you now have a free virtual employee. The e-commerce platform is announcing this...

Location data predictive of retail store closures
As marketers are discovering, mobile location data can be used for many purposes. Among them, according to inMarket, is predicting retail...

95% of online shoppers say a positive return experience drives loyalty [Report]
The key to getting repeat e-commerce customers might be a friendly policy and process for accepting returned items. According to a recent...

In Massachusetts, retailers’ cookies will soon lead to sales tax
A cookie is a kind of property in a location. That statement, if maintained, could usher in a sea change in how online retailers tax...

5 key e-commerce & retail trends from Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report
Kleiner Perkins venture partner Mary Meeker released her annual Internet Trends report on Wednesday. In total, the report comprises 355...

City Furniture taps Apple, IBM for in-store apps to improve the sales experience
Whether you see what’s happening right now with retail store closures as a right-sizing or a harbinger of the “retail apocalypse,”...
























