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Kroger breaks into top 10 U.S. e-commerce companies | Supermarket News
Riding the success of its ongoing investments in e-commerce and powered by a COVID-19 surge in online grocery sales, The Kroger Co. entered eMarketer's annual list of Top 10 U.S. Retail E-Commerce Companies with $11.28 billion in sales this year.
Kroger, the nation's largest grocery chain, saw its e-commerce sales jump by 79% in 2020, according to eMarketer. Kroger made the list for the first time, at No. 9, nudging out Costco Wholesale at No. 10 with $11.18 billion in digital sales.
Google's Bill Ready Wants to Level the Playing Field in Ecommerce - EcommerceBytes
Nearly a year into his job heading up commerce at Google, Bill Ready has made it his mission to democratize online retail.
Ready has overseen a series of moves aiming to widen access to Google’s platform for online sellers, particularly for smaller sellers who might have been priced out of the paid listings that previously dominated Google Shopping.
In April, Ready announced that sellers would be able to list their inventories in Google Shopping for free. In June, Google expanded free retail listings to its general search engine. Then in July, the company announced that its Buy on Google feature — where consumers can complete a purchase directly on Google — would be commission-free, and welcome in partners Shopify and PayPal, with hints of more to follow.
The Luxury E-Commerce Wars Heat Up - The New York Times
In 2015, the chairman and controlling shareholder of the luxury goods group Richemont, Johann Rupert, took to the stage at an industry conference in Monte Carlo and issued a rallying cry to some of his biggest rivals.
"I invited the other big groups to create a singular, dominant neutral platform for the luxury goods industry in which we were shareholders," Mr. Rupert, a blustery South African, recalled this month. "I was talking to Mr. Arnault of LVMH and Mr. Pinault of Kering," he said, referring to the heads of two major luxury conglomerates, Bernard Arnault and François-Henri Pinault.
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5 Ecommerce Trends to Watch In 2021 - Business 2 Community
2020 has propelled ecommerce forward by about 5 years according to experts . With such dramatic change within one industry comes a shift in trends, shopping habits and so much more. We're going to be talking about 5 trends we expect to be at the forefront of more retail and ecommerce businesses.
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has become increasingly popular over the last few years or so and is now being adopted more widely than ever before. With more and more BNPL companies popping up and more online retailers adopting this payment method, we expect this trend to continue into 2021, where it may even become a preferential way to pay.
Ecommerce trends: Shift to online shopping may be permanent - ClickZ
We asked some of the biggest brands in ecommerce to share their experience, data, and insight about trend with the goal of helping you best position your business for success in 2021. Our partners for this forum include Capgemini, Fila, eBay, BigCommerce, Shopify, Amazon, and Burrow.
But the pivot to digital commerce has also created opportunities for retailers to flourish. In the same report, IBM predicts that ecommerce is projected to grow by nearly 20%.
Don't expect Google to compete with Amazon in e-commerce anytime soon
For nearly as long as Google 's been a publicly traded company, it has attempted various e-commerce efforts that have mostly failed to make much progress. That's making executives' latest push difficult to buy but impossible to ignore.
The complications surrounding Google's history of failed e-commerce attempts became more prominent in 2020 when it couldn't capture the market when it needed it most. But experts say there's still hope for the search giant and its cash stockpile to gain some traction. What it needs is a plan firm enough to outlast its past failures.
Cyber Monday: Shoppers spend $10.8 billion on record e-commerce day
Holiday shoppers went online Monday and spent $10.8 billion, setting a record for the largest U.S. internet shopping day ever, according to Adobe Analytics data.
Cyber Monday spending rose 15.1% year over year, according to Adobe, which analyzes website transactions from 80 of the top 100 U.S. online retailers. That came in short of Adobe's original forecast of $12.7 billion. The firm had been revising its Cyber Monday estimate downward in recent days.
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