Online grocery startups face fierce competition and other growing pains: Venture capitalists have poured billions into these fast-delivery companies, but their success is far from guaranteed.
The share of food and beverage ecommerce sales in the UK will rebound to pre-pandemic levels in the coming years.
Amazon fined again in Italy: The ecommerce giant faces a $1.3B fine for forcing sellers to use its logistics services—underscoring a pattern that could lead to heightened regulator reprisal.
On today's episode, we discuss Amazon's role in the trend of retail media advertising and some of the new advertising features we can expect to see from the online shopping giant. We then talk about Walmart's readiness to take on Amazon and whether America's internet is turning into a QVC-like shopping channel. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Andrew Lipsman.
TikTok woos brands and merchants with a new social commerce app: As competition with Instagram heats up, TikTok speeds up product development.
As noncash transactions grow more popular, the government hopes to maintain control of its payments system.
US ecommerce sales will surpass $1 trillion annually in 2022, up 15.9% from this year.
When it comes to Christmas shopping, the biggest priority among UK consumers is avoiding crowds, cited by 32% of those 18 and older.
Social commerce has shortened the path to purchase, allowing consumers to move through the purchase journey from discovery to checkout within one app.
On the inaugural episode of this brand new Behind the Numbers show, Reimagining Retail, we sent our analysts out holiday shopping to see how things looked and felt to them. Co-hosts and principal analysts at Insider Intelligence Suzy Davidkhanian and Andrew Lipsman discuss how the holiday shopping season is going so far, what their personal experiences were like, and what they found to be the good, the bad, and the surprising of in-store shopping this year.
Nova Credit transfers immigrants’ credit histories into the US financial system so Amex can reach a hard-to-tap consumer segment.
The desire for sustainability extends to search engines, ads: A new report suggests consumers are ready to switch to sustainable search engines and opt out of ads that aren’t environmentally friendly.
Nearly three-quarters of US adults will likely use standard delivery for their purchases this holiday season.
eBay’s technical difficulties are the least of its worries: Though eBay remains in second place (behind Amazon) in retail marketplace sales, slowing growth and new competitors could be a thorn in its side in the long term.