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  • Study: For majority of retailers, omnichannel is a priority

    The term “omnichannel” has been bandied about so much that some feel it is simply a buzzword, but retailers are taking it seriously and working to implement omnichannel solutions and practices.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-height: 100000px; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-family: open_sansregular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255,

  • Holiday shoppers go crazy for free shipping

    Online shoppers will do anything to quality for free shipping-even spend more money.

    Sixty percent of holiday shoppers say they have increased their online spending in the past to qualify for free shipping, according to the 2015 Holiday Shopping Survey from Pitney Bowes. 

  • Online footwear retailer sprints toward faster delivery

    Vancouver-based specialty online footwear retailer Shoes.com is sprinting toward new levels of fast delivery.

    Shoes.com is offering home and office delivery in two hours or less on select items on its Canadian website.

    The service costs $19.95 per order and launches Thursday, Sept. 17 in Vancouver and Toronto and surrounding municipalities, with plans to expand to Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa by the end of 2015.

    Shoes.com will use a network of local fulfillment centers that have access to the retailer’s technology, operations and marketing.

  • Study: Consumers do their e-commerce homework

    When it comes to e-commerce, consumers aren’t afraid to do a little homework.

    According to the 2015 Digital Consumer Preferences Survey from digital commerce solution provider BrandShop, 96% of consumers feel research is a crucial step in making an e-commerce purchase.

    Almost six in 10 (58%) respondents start their product search on Google, and 22% go directly a brand’s website. Third-party retailers such as Amazon came in third with 14% usage.

  • Target faces class-action over breach

    It’s official – Target Corp. will face a class action lawsuit related to its November 2013 data breach.

  • Report: How ready are U.S. retailers for EMV? Not very.

    The overwhelming majority of merchants are not ready for the shift to EMV. 

    Only 27% of U.S. merchants will be EMV-ready by the October 1st liability shift, down from the 34% estimated in March, according to a survy by The Strawhecker Group (TSG).

    By December 2015, 44% of U.S. merchants are expected to adopt EMV, however EMV-readiness will not reach a threshold of least 90% until 2017— more than 15 months after the shift.

  • Target is looking for a few good startups

    Target Corp. has operated an innovation lab in San Francisco since 2013, but now the retailer is eyeing a more accelerated and outward-focused approach to innovation.

  • Webinar on how Saks’ million-dollar energy savings started with data

    New York -- Learn how Saks Fifth Avenue used data as the foundation for its energy efficiency initiatives at a Webinar on Thursday, September 24, 2015, at 2 p.m. (EST).  

    Gary Levitan, senior manager of energy and utilities for Hudson’s Bay Company, parent of Saks Fifth Avenue, will explain how Saks used data — and how it efficiently identified and leveraged the right data — to make the business case for an efficiency initiative that drove the following benefits:   

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