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Wiser Insights: Navigating 2023’s Online Back-to-School Retail Trends

Wiser

The emergence of eCommerce has transformed traditional shopping habits, with a growing number of parents and students turning to online platforms to fulfill their annual back-to-school shopping needs. The convenience, variety, and value offered by online platforms presents a compelling proposition for consumers.

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Saks.com Spin-Out: Genius Move or Opportunistic Folly?

Steve Dennis

The Bay has long suffered from the woes of unremarkable department stores. What’s likely to be driving this move right now, however, are the recent rather frothy valuations of luxury oriented online retailers. While some recovery may come later this year, it’s hard to believe we will get a robust rebound any time soon.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

The Mastercard SpendingPulse measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment, providing a wealth of insights to help merchants refine and optimize their holiday strategies. This will create a significant opportunity for specialty apparel retailers, which are predicted to see 4.6%

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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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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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Inside the Overlap Between Omnichannel and Personalized Experiences in Retail

Sailthru

As the world’s largest retailer and online retailer go head to head in a battle of Goliath and Goliath, one thing is clear: Omnichannel has become the white whale for retailers. The research firm graded the brands based websites, store locators, fulfillment, ecommerce, email, mobile, and social media.

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Free Shipping, eh? How Canadian Retailers Combat Cart Abandonment Issues

OrderDynamics

Larger than expected basket sizes have led to greater revenue for the retailer. Control fulfillment centres : Retailers who want to remain competitive on shipping costs have adjusted their fulfillment infrastructure to do so. The Quebec-based department store offers free shipping on minimum orders of $100.