Retail & Ecommerce
From meal kits to wardrobe upgrades, new entrants in the increasingly crowded subscription commerce space keep emerging. According to a McKinsey study released in February, subscription commerce retailers grew sales from $57.0 million in 2011 to over $2.6 billion in 2015. But how do consumers feel about subscription commerce?
News this week of Sears filing for bankruptcy protection wasn't exactly a shock to anyone. According to a new Adthena study that looked into how digital commerce competition affected Sears, the retailer fared poorly compared with its counterparts.
First books, now … mattresses? Amazon and a host of new brands are shaking up the mattress industry and remaking the customer journey. eMarketer’s Andrew Lipsman lays out the facts and data.
Social media is hardly synonymous with shopping, but that hasn't stopped social platforms from positioning themselves as pseudo-retailers.
Nearly half of US internet users surveyed by Periscope By McKinsey said they plan to shop for Black Friday deals online.
Consumer sentiment indicates that shoppers are feeling flush this holiday season. More are confident about the economy and plan to up their gift spending this year. According to a September 2018 Field Agent study, US holiday shoppers said they would spend more in all holiday categories, including gifts, groceries for meals and decorations.
US spending on pet care continues to rise. Why? Pet food trends follow human fancies, which means a growing focus on wellness that has extended to furry members of the family.
If you think consumers want brands to be neutral on social issues, you would be wrong. Belief-driven buyers—consumers who choose, switch, avoid or boycott a brand based on its stand on societal issues—are the majority in 2018.
Ryan Fagan, director of sales and operations planning at Lowe’s, spoke about how the home-improvement brand overhauled the way it verifies which customers are eligible for discounts.
Subscription boxes are still a popular ecommerce segment despite shoppers not fully embracing them. For consumers, they fill needs from convenience to variety. Attrition is high, though. Once the novelty wears off, some start to question a subscription box's value and lack of flexibility.
Like customer experience and digital transformation, the need for innovation has become a priority across industries. Retail is no exception. A new PYMNTS and AEVI survey examined what is motivating retailers to innovate payments. The biggest driver to innovate was competition (84.6%). No one wants to get left behind, and many just want to be on a level playing field.
Retailers believe that early birds and primetime shoppers are the most important holiday audience. Procrastinators? Not so much.
About one-third of publishers are using CMPs to collect and store their user consent data in an attempt to avoid fines for data misuse.
A new National Retail Federation study examines what it is calling "value shoppers," the 89% of US consumers who frequent discount retailers. With a figure that high, this behavior transcends gender, region, income and age.
Everyone knows shoppers love discounts, but how do they find them and which channels do they prefer?
Hossein Rahnama, founder and CEO of fintech AI firm Flybits, explains the benefits and challenges of virtual assistants for brands in Canada.
For the 2018 holiday season, eMarketer expects total US retail sales to grow 4.1% to $986.8 billion, with ecommerce jumping 16.2% to $123.4 billion.
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, some of the topics we’re talking about include a security breach at Facebook that exposed roughly 50 million accounts and how Amazon has increased its minimum wage to $15 an hour.
More than half of respondents (54%) plan to shop for premium groceries this holiday season, according to a recent survey from Accenture.
Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands—encompassing everything from startups like Billie offering women's razor subscriptions to Casper, the once online-only mattress company that has products now being sold at Target—have been growing in popularity for a variety of reasons.