But as industrial equipment manufacturer Blount International has come to realize, implementing an ecommerce website can be challenging. Home-grown websites, for example, can be costly to build from scratch, and out-of-the-box solutions can require extensive customization to meet individual buyers' needs and connect to back-office enterprise resource planning systems. Both approaches increase the operational demands on the IT department.
Many things are taking place:
Ecommerce Product Releases: July 1, 2020 | Practical Ecommerce
Here is a list of product releases and updates for late June from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on website builders, logistics tools, free product listings, predictive artificial intelligence, product recommendations, social commerce, and shoppable videos.
Wix launches extended ecommerce . Wix, a website creation platform, has announced the launch of an ecommerce offering. The new service provides merchants and brands features such as customizable branded storefronts and carts, multichannel sales, drop shipping, native payment processing with Wix Payments, analytics and report creation, shipping and fulfillment capabilities, and more.
Why sentiment matters in ecommerce now and after COVID-19
Today, marketers are obsessed with data and know the rank of every one of their product or service offerings.
But only looking at a rank score means only understanding part of the picture and missing the nuances which stand behind that rank score.
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Think about your favorite movie or restaurant and describe it as if you were recommending it to a friend. Would your friend have the same understanding of the movie or restaurant if you just shared a rank score?
Dawn Foods Launches National eCommerce Platform, Streamlining the Ordering Process for Bakers
100-year-old baking industry leader reinvents ordering for retail bakery customers with convenient, online, on-demand access to baking supplies from inspiring ingredients to packaging needs
"The biggest win this year is launching eCommerce for our customers. With this exciting new offering, Dawn is adding to its history of innovation by creating its own digital path - driving significant change across its core business," said Bob Howland , Chief Digital Officer of Dawn. "This platform was built with input from our pilot program customers and in partnership with some of the best companies in the digital space.
Quite a lot has been going on:
7 factors that will shape ecommerce in the second half of 2020 – Econsultancy
As we enter the second half of 2020, Dan Barker examines the key trends that are set to shape ecommerce, and how retailers can respond to them.
The effects of ‘SARS2’ on ecommerce are tough to overstate. Tens of thousands of businesses sold online for the first time. Millions of transactions that would normally have taken place in stores shifted online. Ecommerce went from ‘high priority’ for most retail businesses to ‘the priority’.
FTC Reports Surge In eCommerce Complaints | PYMNTS.com
While online purchasing has skyrocketed since March as the country shut down as a defense against COVID-19, so have complaints to the federal watchdog agency responsible for regulating eCommerce.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has received a record number of complaints related to online shopping, the agency reported on Wednesday (July 1).
The FTC's Consumer Protection Data Spotlight shows that in April and May, the agency received more than 34,000 complaints from consumers related to online shopping.
Ecommerce products may be asked to name manufacturing country
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre on a plea seeking directions to it to ensure that the name of the manufacturing country is displayed on products being sold on e-commerce sites.
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan issued notice to the Centre and e-commerce platforms Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal seeking their stand on the plea by July 22.
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The Central government's standing counsel Ajay Digpaul accepted notice on behalf of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs.
Chipotle Launches eCommerce Platform as Virtual Farmers' Market |
The agricultural industry has been weathering a crisis for years that has recently been magnified and accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Farmers around the country have had to destroy millions of pounds of fresh goods due to decreased demand with restaurants, hotels and schools closed.
In trying to its part to respond to the situation, Chipotle Mexican Grill, with over 2,600 restaurants as of March 31, 2020, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, has launched an eCommerce platform, dubbed Chipotle Virtual Farmers’ Market . The stated goal is to enable farmers in the Chipotle supply chain to launch improved versions of their own eCommerce websites.
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