M-commerce rules! Yes really. It’s not just the heir apparent of retail shopping channels, it’s about to be crowned king. An IBM Watson study says that this Black Friday shopping week more US shoppers will browse online using their smartphones than traditional computers. It’s the first time that’s happened. Significantly, more people will use smartphones…
It’s going to be a big day Friday. Yes, it’s my birthday. Ok, that might not impress you. But how about the fact that shoppers in Britain are set to spend nearly £2bn in a single day. That’s more like it.
What do Next, M&S, Amazon, Debenhams and Asos have in common? Fashion shoppers like their websites. In the case of Amazon and Asos that must be something of a relief because if they’re not scoring well online then they’re simply not scoring. And it must also be pretty gratifying for M&S after all its online…
It’s a challenging time for the luxury sector as profits take a dive due to… well, you know, the usual suspects – Russia, the Middle East, China – all those places that used to be the very reason luxury did so well. So how about Burberry? Well, on Thursday the UK luxury leader said its…
E-commerce giant Alibaba, the company that made Singles Day the world’s biggest shopping event, broke its own record today by beating last year’s full-day total in half the time. It was helped by some heavyweight celebrity endorsement, including Kevin Spacey also in his House of Cards President Frank Underwood persona. “Here at the White House, there…
It’s going to be an online Christmas in the UK. Yes, I know analysts say that every year but this time it’s for real. More than half of our Christmas shopping WON’T be through physical stores with an Adobe survey of 400 consumers saying that 57% of shopping will be online instead. Just think about…
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