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  • Amazon dominates online retail traffic in March

    Amazon.com has found another way to demonstrate its commanding lead in e-commerce – monthly unique visitors.

    According to the comScore March 2016 rankings of the top 50 multi-platform (desktop and mobile) properties by unique U.S. work and home visits, Amazon sites received 180.97 million unique visitors. This ranked first among all predominantly retail web properties and fifth overall.

  • Report: Kohl’s chief marketer resigns

    A shakeup in the executive ranks is reportedly occurring at Kohl’s.

    According to AdAge, Will Setliff, executive VP of marketing at the department store chain, is resigning his position the week of April 11. There has been no press release from Kohl’s or Setliff and surprisingly little coverage of his career shift outside of AdAge.

  • Three Ways to Keep Stores Relevant

    By now, everyone has heard the adage “the store is the center of omnichannel” and seen the statistics showing that physical stores account for about 90% of retail sales. So clearly brick-and-mortar stores are as relevant as ever.
     
    Well, yes and no. Brick-and-mortar stores can be relevant as ever, but only if they offer modern technological amenities expected by today’s customers. Here are three ways to make sure consumers see your stores as central to their omnichannel shopping activities.
     

  • Lowe’s sees real future in holograms

    Lowe’s Companies Inc. is expanding its use of augmented and virtual reality to help customers truly “visualize” home improvement projects.

  • A different kind of drone rolls into Walmart’s backyard

    A major experiment is set to begin soon on the campus of the University of Arkansas that could determine how retailers use robots, also known as autonomous terrestrial drones, to make deliveries.

    Beginning April 1, London-based Starship Technologies will be turning heads on the rolling hills of the University of Arkansas campus as an important experiment gets underway to gauge human interaction with autonomous land-based vehicles.

  • The one book every retailer must read

    Even if overuse of the words disruption and transformation hadn’t diluted their meaning, they would still come up short when describing global economy altering trend envisioned by some that could have a devastating impact on consumer spending.

  • Tech Guest Viewpoint: Driving Impulse Buy with Technology

    The term “impulse buy” has a negative connotation to many. Picking up that guilty pleasure snack in the checkout line at the supermarket, that gadget you don’t really need, or those shoes that are on sale all qualify.

  • American Dream mega-mall adds huge Primark store

    The American Dream mall will encompass three million square feet when it opens in northern New Jersey in 2017 and occupying 100,000 sq. ft. of that space will be fashion retailer Primark.

  • Microsoft partners with Verifone for EMV payment

    Retailers still working on compliance with the EMV chip-based card payment standard have a new technology option.

    Verifone is partnering with Microsoft to provide comprehensive EMV-ready payment as a service solutions certified for Microsoft Dynamics AX for retail and commerce solutions.

    The offering bundles payment hardware, software and support services into a single integrated solution, enabling retailers to centrally manage their entire payment system.

  • Brands to Watch in 2016

    Which brands will break new ground, fall from grace, or overcome obstacles in 2016? Here’s my list of brands to watch in 2016. Since I couldn’t narrow the list to a handful as I’ve done in past years, I decided to expand the list to 26, one for each letter of the alphabet.

    So here’s a brand-builder’s almanac for the coming year:

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