The act of merchandising and selling an item in a physical store is fundamentally different than promoting and selling the same product online.
Consider the advantages of physical retailing. In a physical store, a shopper can handle a product before buying it. He can, for example, pick up a new kitchen knife, feel its weight, and gauge how it fits in his hand. In some stores, he could even chop a few carrots before making the buying decision.
Similarly, a mother shopping for kids’ clothing can touch the fabric and have her child try on an outfit or two. For questions, a clerk is not far off.
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The increase was consistent across regions, and category growth mirrored other quarters: Top gains came in gaming (+70%) and retail (+68%), and declines were led by travel (-29%) and ticketing (-94%). Even with the growth, e-tailers are feeling the slowdown in overall spending, with purchase value declining 3% annually in June, which indicates that customers are spending online more often, even if overall dollars are down.
Ongoing gains in online shopping, even as lockdown restrictions ease, could indicate a big-picture shift toward e-tail.
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It's an agricultural whodunit: People in 28 states are receiving mysterious seed packets from China and Kyrgyzstan.
This isn't a Jack and the Beanstalk situation. State agencies are warning not to plant them for fear they could be invasive — and they're pretty sure the seeds are part of a "brushing" scam.
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Last year, Amazon encouraged the "verified" elite to rate more purchases. The idea: Their ratings are trustworthy, so they could drown out paid reviews.
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Whether COVID-19 pushed you to pivot from a brick-and-mortar store to an online environment, or you’ve decided to take the plunge and set up a web-based shop, starting an eCommerce business can be a rewarding venture.
From 2017 to late 2019, approximately 28.1 million Canadians made purchases online. That’s a lot of people who are landing on webpages and whipping out their wallets if they like what they see.
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eBay’s managed payments expand globally . eBay is expanding managed payments now that its operating agreement with PayPal has expired. eBay reports that as of June 30, nearly 42,000 sellers in the U.S. and Germany use managed payments, which streamline the experience of selling and getting paid on the platform and offer buyers more payment options, including seller financing.
AmeriCommerce adds three new features . AmeriCommerce, an ecommerce platform for high-volume stores, has developed three new features: (i) native integration with QuickBooks Online, (ii) upgrading to the latest version of PayPal Commerce Platform, and (iii) beta-testing Zapier integration to connect multiple apps and automate repetitive tasks.
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Coveo and commercetools team up to provide unified multi-channel and intelligent Ecommerce architecture for highly personalized buyer experience
To free the market from legacy Ecommerce architecture, commercetools invented a headless, API-first, multi-tenant SaaS commerce platform that is cloud-native and uses flexible microservices. The commercetools platform integrates seamlessly with Coveo to deliver the intelligent commerce experiences buyers are demanding.
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