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  • Study: Everybody loves e-commerce

    It seems safe to say the novelty of shopping online has worn off.

    According to a new study examining the online shopping and purchase habits of the U.S. population from e-commerce platform BigCommerce, 96% of Americans are shopping online. E-commerce customers spend an average of five hours per week making online purchases and allocate an average of 36% of their shopping budgets to e-commerce.

    Respondents ranked online shopping ahead of smartphone GPS and streaming media as a basic essential they could not live without.

  • Tech Bytes: Why Aren't Customers Buying Social Buy Buttons?

    Consumers love to shop and love using social media, but somehow the two passions are not connecting.
     
    Twitter, which has been piloting an embedded buy button in tweets since September 2014, is abandoning the effort. Recent studies from Forrester and GlobalWebIndex indicate generally low consumer usage rates for social buy buttons, which are also offered by platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram.
     

  • Why Aren't Customers Buying Social Buy Buttons?

    Consumers love to shop and love using social media, but somehow the two passions are not connecting.
     
    Twitter, which has been piloting an embedded buy button in tweets since September 2014, is abandoning the effort. Recent studies from Forrester and GlobalWebIndex indicate generally low consumer usage rates for social buy buttons, which are also offered by platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram.
     

  • Pandora extends Synchrony financing agreement

    Synchrony Financial will continue to offer consumer financing to Pandora Jewelry customers.

    The two companies have announced a multi-year extension of their consumer financing program agreement. The program, which began in 2011, will continue to provide Pandora shoppers with access to a range of payment options through the Pandora Preferred card program. Special financing will be available at select concept stores nationwide.

  • Survey: What social platform influences back-to-school shoppers?

    The current school year is just ending, but consumers are already looking ahead to the fall.

    According to a new survey of 300 U.S. adults who plan on leading their families’ back-to-school shopping efforts from social engagement firm CrowdTap, blogs and social media conversations rival traditional advertising formats (e.g. magazine circulars and TV ads) when it comes to what drives back-to-school purchases.

  • Guess what Walmart is bringing back?

    Walmart is reviving a familiar icon to be the symbol of its low-price marketing.

    The discounter announced it is bringing back its yellow smiley image, which has been in hibernation for some 10 years. The image can already be seen in some digital advertising and will expand to television ads and select in-store signage next week.

  • Focus on New York market helps boost Ahold USA Q1 sales by 4%

    Ahold USA first quarter sales were up 4% to $8.2 billion. Excluding gas, sales increased 4.1% at constant exchange rates. The addition of 25 A&P stores in the New York Metro market in fourth quarter 2015 was the main contributor to the overall sales growth and resulted in an overall market share improvement in both dollars and volume, Ahold reported.

  • CVS says 'so long' to printed receipts

    Photo: CVS Pharmacy President Helena Foulkes unveiled digital receipts in a surprise appearance on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday evening.

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