Ecommerce

Amazon has stepped up its presence in China with a strategic partnership with the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ).

Omni-channel retailing is upending the way consumers shop and interact with their favorite brands. In response, retailers must redesign their supply chains to meet growing customer expectations in a new retail world without limits.

The National Retail Federation today lowered its retail sales forecast for 2014 because of slow growth recorded during the first half of the year, but said sales are expected to grow significantly faster over the next five months.

AmazonSupply.com launched quietly in April 2012 with 500,000 items for sale. Two years later, with the site still officially in beta, that list of products has grown to more than 2.2 million.

Custora E-Commerce Pulse Mobile Report Uncovers Important Implications for Marketers in Light of Mobile’s Meteoric Rise.

Mobile commerce continues to grow at an astounding rate. It's only a matter of time until mobile orders represent the majority of online commerce.

The primary focus of the Deutsche Post DHL Study is on trends and developments which are already highly significant and which will have a growing influence on consumerism, retailing and logistics in the course of the next eleven years.

History has shown that Chinese companies can grow and gradually penetrate the market, pushing the foreign companies aside.

While we've been focusing on the warehouse, the next evolution in e-commerce is the last mile delivery and in-store fulfillment. It could be the break brick-and-mortar has been looking for.

Although FedEx is the first to announce this move, they surely won’t be the last - So how will this impact ecommerce order fulfillment and direct selling companies?

According to a recent survey of 120 B2B eCommerce professionals, 80% of respondents either “agreed” or “strongly agreed” that their customers’ expectations followed B2C shopper practices.

An omnichannel strategy is really about developing the intelligence needed to most effectively take action – using the right resources at those critical moments to create remarkable, profitable consumer experiences.

Retailers must stop thinking in silos, measure operational performance regardless of channel and strive towards being a seamless organization with redefined stores at the center of their transformation.

In 2012, retail e-Commerce spending in the U.S. surged 15% to reach $186 billion, its second consecutive year of growth in the mid-teens. To put that growth rate in perspective, it was seven times greater than the corresponding growth rate for total U.S. retail spending.

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