What will Amazon do with Whole Foods’ more than 400 local retail grocery stores? Among the many scenarios, the Seattle-based company...

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...

Things are far different for retailers today — so different, in fact, that brick-and-mortar retail is under a massive three-pronged...

Advances in artificial intelligence tend to provoke polarizing reactions for most people. One, a dystopian anxiety where humans huddle in...

The key to getting repeat e-commerce customers might be a friendly policy and process for accepting returned items. According to a recent...

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...

When you start advertising on a new platform, deciding how to structure things can be scary because there’s the risk that a bad decision...

Kleiner Perkins venture partner Mary Meeker released her annual Internet Trends report on Wednesday. In total, the report comprises 355...

For all the buzz about creating superior customer experiences, marketers still seem to be falling flat heading into the all-important...

Black Friday weekend, back-to-school, Valentine’s Day — these are what most people think about when it comes to critical times for...

Earlier this year, Amazon rolled out a beta program aimed at social media influencers with high follower numbers and frequent social...

Kashin / Shutterstock.com Google is opening the beta for its “buy button,” dubbed Purchases on Google. Sales & Orders reported finding...

This week, Salesforce is adding some smarts to the Einstein layer in its Commerce Cloud. Einstein provides a consistent artificial...

The US Census Bureau released its latest e-commerce report, showing retail e-commerce sales reached an estimated $105.7 billion in Q1...

significant opportunities for sellers. When implemented with skill, email marketing has the power to create a highly targeted tribe of...

Likewise, if marketers define their Back to College (BTC) consumer target as the traditional student, they ignore the range of students...

Julie Clopper / Shutterstock.com Amazon and Walmart’s battle over who has the lowest minimum order amount for free shipping hit another...

A “one-shot wonder” is someone who gets drunk after one shot — an extreme lightweight. In business parlance, the term refers to an...

Clearly, there are too many malls and too many stores, and the internet is impacting the retail landscape significantly. As a result, a...

Google has been steadily increasing distribution of Shopping ads, including to YouTube, Image search results and third-party retail sites...