With the grand opening of the Amazon Go mini-mart in Seattle on January 22nd, the world was introduced to what the eCommerce titan sees as the future of retail grocery shopping. As complicated and competitive the grocery industry has become, both online and on the street, Amazon’s premise is very simple: Speed and Convenience. “Amazon […]
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Are Costco, Sam’s Club and BJ’s Wholesale doomed? According to an article in the Washington Post, millennial and Gen Z shoppers –the future of retail — haven’t warmed to the warehouse superstores in the way baby boomer and Gen X customers have. The article cites a millennial shopper who doesn’t want to schlep to the
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Don’t look now, but experiments to turn physical stores into automated vending machines are breaking out all over. Last month, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com announced it is opening hundreds of convenience stores that have no human employees. Designed around facial and object recognition technology, this initiative goes beyond Amazon’s Go pilot autonomous store, unveiled a
Powerful digital sales strategies to ensure you make the most of your ecommerce site’s traffic Research by Big Commerce shows 51% of people prefer shopping online and 95% shop online at least once a year. It is a trillion-dollar market. This popularity has catalysed the rise of more than 12 million ecommerce stores. But only
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One fraudulent online order can cost a small retailer nearly three times as much as the cost of the transaction. That’s what Stripe found in its December 2017 Online Fraud Trends and Behavior report (PDF). Online Fraud Trends Report The online payment processor recently released the report and gave Small Business Trends a unique perspective
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My mom has this amazing collection of beaded sweaters that, some years back, we attempted to sell on Etsy. I say “attempted” because there were absolutely no sales and barely any traffic, and it was mainly all our fault. You see, I was twelve-years-old at the time and thought I could do wonders with a
The concept of cloud hosting can be confusing. “We’re moving to the cloud.” “The cloud can scale this.” Or my favorite, from Microsoft about Windows 7: “To the cloud.” Cloud hosting is similar to hosting on dedicated servers. In both scenarios, you’re renting computers from a third party to keep your store online. That server
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Even as companies such as Deloitte argue that more buying will happen online than in stores this holiday season, the value of stores remains clear. That’s partly why Amazon paid nearly $14 billion for Whole Foods earlier this year and why the company is seeking to launch holiday shops in selected markets across the US.
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Amy Gesenhues is Third Door Media’s General Assignment Reporter, covering the latest news and updates for Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. From 2009 to 2012, she was an award-winning syndicated columnist for a number of daily newspapers from New York to Texas. With more than ten years of marketing management experience, she has contributed
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Retailers have been trying to bring together the information-rich world of their online stores with the touch-the-product advantages of their brick-and-mortar ones. This had led to kiosks, mobile apps that point to inventory in a physical store, and location-based offers, among other efforts. This week, a startup is launching a new and patent-pending approach: Put
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