Retail & Ecommerce
As Thanksgiving rapidly approaches, the holiday shopping season is kicking into overdrive. Retailers are ready for the surge in consumer spending on Black Friday, but what shopper behaviors should they expect? We break down three key trends for the holiday weekend.
No email marketer wants to see an unsubscribe. And even with providing post-unsubscribe check boxes to gather user feedback, motivations aren't always clear.
Return policies used to be viewed as a necessary evil. Behind the scenes, logistics can create a lot of headaches for retailers, but consumers expect a seamless process. Flexible returns have also become a differentiating factor that can make or break customer loyalty.
Heading into the fiercely competitive holiday shopping season, Walmart is poised to capture an even larger portion of this year’s online retail sales, according to eMarketer's latest retail forecast.
With reports of cybersecurity mishaps surfacing periodically, the retail industry has only a so-so reputation for protecting consumer data. In fact, data breaches have just become a part of doing business.
Online shopping has become a sport during Thanksgiving week and beyond, and it's also starting to play a role in the holiday meal itself. In many ways, the convenience of buying groceries online seems well-suited for larger-than-usual gatherings, even if it is used by only a small number of consumers.
According to a September 2018 survey from Third Door Media, 34.2% of US ecommerce-focused marketers currently spend 10% to 25% of their digital ad budget on Amazon. Future intentions are strong: 80% plan to increase their Amazon ad budgets next year.
Mobile has become integral to the shopping experience, yet when it comes to transacting—especially in store—US consumers still aren't fully on-board.
This year, 55.0 million people in the US will use mobile payments, making up 20.2% of the population, according to eMarketer estimates.
Alibaba's Singles' Day, China's massive ecommerce festival held annually on November 11, has grown to surpass pretty much every other online shopping event in the world.
Over the past few months, more than half of states in the US have enacted an online sales tax and more will join in 2019. Local governments viewed online sales tax as a boon, brick-and-mortar retailers considered it leveling the playing field, while online retailers—many which already paid sales tax—predicted it would be detrimental.
The UK holiday shopping season is on pace to hit two major milestones this year. The holiday season, which eMarketer defines as November and December, is the most important retail period in nearly all major European markets.
Every week on eMarketer’s “Behind the Numbers” podcast, we take a few minutes to discuss some of the most intriguing headlines of the past seven days. This week, we're chatting about Amazon's controversial HQ2 (er, 3) decision. Plus: Juul's move to quit social, and the rise of the nanoinfluencer.
Singles' Day racked up another year of double-digit growth, and consumers around the world spent more than $1 billion in the first 90 seconds of the day. But as the annual shopping event enters its second decade, growth is slowing and expectations are being revised. eMarketer's Man-Chung Cheung was on the ground in Shanghai on Nov. 11. He and analyst Andrew Lipsman join Marcus Johnson to discuss the shopping event and what comes next.
In the latest episode of “Behind the Numbers,” forecasters Showmik Podder and Chris Bendtsen break out data from eMarketer’s new estimates for mobile payments usage. How many people around the world use mobile phones to make payments? Where are mobile payments the most common? Why would anyone want to pay via phone, anyway?
Data breaches and the threat of regulation have chief marketers on edge about data security.
It's been established that consumers aren't crazy about chatbots for customer service needs. But according to a new study, consumers aren't enamored with any other customer service channel either.
Even with the ubiquity of digital buying, the in-store shopping experience continues to have importance. And even more so with younger consumers.
The cash culture in Germany is holding back mobile payment adoption in the country. Many people are comfortable paying with cash and don’t see any significant benefits to changing their habits, especially older generations.
For digital sales, delivery might not seem as important as a product itself, but many shoppers judge a retailer on its last-mile capabilities. Loyalty can be made or broken based on cost, speed and accuracy of shipping.