Online Holiday Sales to Increase Between 11% and 14%
Online retailers can expect huge gains in the upcoming holiday shopping season, according to market research firm Forrester Research. Despite price hikes resulting from the…
Canada Post Struggles with Backlog – Over 6 Million Packages Still Undelivered
While the Canadian government put a temporary halt to the worker’s strike at Canada Post a few weeks ago, the postal service is struggling to…
Adobe Analytics Claims Record $6.22 Billion in Online Sales on Black Friday
In a new report from Adobe Analytics, the company estimated that on Black Friday, U.S. online shoppers spent a record $6.22 billion. That is 23.6…
Shopify Releases Black Friday Sales Data Insights
This year Shopify is releasing insights into sales data from their 600,000 plus merchants. While this is metadata, it still is an interesting look at…
NRF Predicts Record Level Halloween Sales in 2018
A survey commissioned by the NRF (National Retail Federation) expects sales of Halloween products to reach $9 billion in 2018. This number is about the…
Mastercard Reports Holiday Season eCommerce Gains of 18.1%
Mastercard followed Amazon out of the gate with some positive holiday news for eCommerce and physical retailers. While the holiday season may not be technically…
Amazon Claims Biggest Holiday Sales
We are about to get a lot of numbers from companies and groups making claims about holiday sales. No doubt that this year was a…
U.S. November Retail Sales are Up with eCommerce Leading the Way
It should come as no surprise that this will be a good year for retail. The NRF (National Retail Foundation) released their report on 2017…
The Amazonification of Whole Foods Market Continues into Holiday Sales
Amazon continues to bring more non-Food products and services to its Whole Foods Market subsidiary this holiday season. To date, over 100 Whole Foods Market…
New Forecast for U.S. Online Holiday Sales Expects Jump to Over $100 Billion
Adobe released their forecast for this year’s U.S. Holiday season, and it includes some staggering numbers. Based on data from the Adobe Analytics product, the…