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Top Online Retailers Winning a Competitive Market

Optimizely

How do you carve out your slice of the market in a super competitive industry? But it’s even harder to build an online retail site that competes with existing retailers like Amazon or Target that have an established a customer base and dominate the market. Need Supply: Market-leading editorial.

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Ahold Online Retailer Takes Majority Stake in Cycling-Oriented Delivery Service

Retail TouchPoints

Ahold Delhaize ’s online retailer operating in the Benelux countries, bol.com , has taken a majority stake in delivery company Cycloon. For bol.com, the partnership ensures that more of its orders can be delivered by bicycle, reducing the company’s carbon footprint.

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Mattress Firm Puts IPO on Ice, Citing Market Volatility

Retail TouchPoints

In January 2022, the mattress chain announced its plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange via an IPO that would have returned the furniture retailer to the public markets six years after South Africa’s Steinhoff International took the company private. Today, Mattress Firm operates 2,300 stores across the U.S.

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The Rise of Shopper Promiscuity Calls For a New Approach to Market Research and Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

They aren’t bound by traditional constraints, and are gathering data far and wide to inform decisions with behaviors that no longer follow any established marketing models. What this means is that consumers aren’t following the pathways on which our research and marketing models have been based for decades.

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Europe-5 Online Retail Sales Will Reach €553 Billion By 2027

Forrester eCommerce

The Europe-5 markets comprise the top five economies in Europe — in order of size, those are Germany, the UK, France, Italy, and Spain. In 2022, total retail sales for the Europe-5 countries continued to grow strongly, but this growth actually shifted from online channels and touchpoints to offline channels and touchpoints.

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The Latin American Economy Is Slowing Down Online Retail Market Growth

Forrester eCommerce

Online retail in Latin America faces a number of challenges: a troubling economy, rising unemployment, high inflation, and regulatory and infrastructure problems. The recently published Forrester Research Online Retail Forecast, 2015 To 2020 (Latin America) explores the impact of all of these factors. online retail.

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Announcing Forrester’s Latest Latin America Online Retail Forecast

Forrester eCommerce

It's been a big news year for eCommerce in Latin America: Brazil's economic instability has tempered eCommerce growth, elections in Argentina have raised hopes that favorable regulatory changes are ahead, and Amazon's entry into Mexico has shone the spotlight on the region's fastest growing market. online retail. Latin America.