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[Infographic] Brick-and-Mortar Retailers (Plus Chocolate) Drive Sales on Valentine’s Day

Wiser

We had our answers within a week and shared the results via this blog and handy infographic. Here are the big retail winners on Valentine’s Day: A Traditional Holiday Wins with Shoppers. Those three items are not typically purchased from online retailers. Instead, they’re better served by being presented in stores.

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Will Prime Day’s Rising Tide Lift All Boats, Or Swamp Them?

RTP blog

The best deals will be reserved for Amazon’s 100 million Prime members — and now the retailer has brick-and-mortar Prime Day outlets as well, thanks to its Whole Foods acquisition. Unfortunately, competing online retailers shouldn’t count on much additional traffic from the 36-hour day (I predict that it will be “Prime Week” by 2020).

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How to Meet and Exceed Amazon-Driven Customer Expectations 

ESW

If they needed a new shirt, they went to the department store. If they needed to replace a light bulb, they went to the hardware store. Author, speaker and consultant Jeff Fromm puts it this way: “If [shoppers] needed groceries, they went to the market or before markets a fruit stand.

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Pivotree™ Reliability

Pivotree Blog

based luxury department store Nordstrom , online sales dipped a whopping 11 per cent when its website response time slowed by just half a second. When you have total online sales in the region of $6bn, the impact is $660M per year if left unaddressed. Online shoppers want speed, simplicity and reliability.

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Four eCommerce challenges from 2019 and what we can learn from them

PFS

Challenge: Last year the nation sat on tenterhooks as the Brexit deadline was delayed, not once but twice, leaving many retailers fearing how the UK’s departure would impact cross border trading. Learning: To boost sustainability in 2020, online retailers must be constantly re-evaluating the distribution chain.

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The Ecommerce Guide to Back to School Shopping

ecomdash

In second place, Boomers prefer department stores while Millennials and Gen X prefer off-price stores. Average clothing sales for department stores ($390), fast-fashion retailers ($338), ecommerce ($279), and off-price stores ($277) all surpass clothing sales at mass merchants ($234).

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THE REGENERATION OF BRICKS AND MORTAR RETAIL

PFS

These more successful online brands are adopting physical retail infrastructures in order to provide their customers with a unique and immersive shopping experience that simply cannot be replicated online. In fact, according to research we conducted for our recent whitepaper, ‘Are online retailers delivering for customers?’,

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