Deliveroo’s planned £7.5bn IPO provides food for thought about the future of digital delivery disruptors Stuart Lauchlan Fri, 03/05/2021 – 03:56 Summary: Deliveroo’s planning a floatation on the London Stock Exchange, just months after airing a threat of bankruptcy. Another sign of the ‘good war’ that digital delivery platform providers have enjoyed during COVID perhaps, […]
Williams Sonoma’s digital transformation marathon models a strong design for the Vaccine Economy’s new world of retail Stuart Lauchlan Fri, 03/19/2021 – 05:05 Summary: Williams Sonoma has put the time, the effort and the money into omni-channel transformation over the years; it paid off in the COVID crisis and sets the retailer up well for […]
What can we expect e-commerce to look like throughout 2021? There’s still a lot of uncertainty in the economy, but some strong trends emerged last year that merchants can build upon now as shoppers solidify new habits and preferences. For example, half of consumers who originally planned to return to their pre-pandemic in-store shopping routines […]
Enterprise hits and misses – retailers prepare for the Vaccine Economy, 30,000 organizations deal with Exchange breach, and Google gets ethical AI scrutiny Jon Reed Sun, 03/07/2021 – 23:00 Summary: This week – Retailers get another omni-channel gut check in the Vaccine Economy, and Microsoft Exchange suffers a concerning breach. Google’s AI firings raise ethical […]
Hudson’s Bay Company’s retail transformation update – Saks Fifth Avenue moves from digital fundamentals to SFA! Stuart Lauchlan Mon, 03/08/2021 – 07:41 Summary: Saks Fifth Avenue is being counter-intuitive to omni-channel retail trends as it prepares to break off its e-commerce operation into a standalone online pureplay. It’s over a year since diginomica last took a […]
‘Modern American optimism’ in action? Gap’s retail digital transformation journey remains a deeply divided story Stuart Lauchlan Tue, 03/09/2021 – 03:25 Summary: Gap Inc wants 50% of revenues to come from online within 2 years. It’s still got a lot of transformation work to cover off… US retail institution Gap Inc has a plan to […]
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By John P. Mello Jr. Mar 17, 2021 4:00 AM PT A new social media platform based on voice messaging launched Monday. Called Swell, free apps for the platform can be found in Apple’s App Store and in Google Play. According to the developers of Swell, it’s the first social platform to focus exclusively on […]
One of the big marketing decisions confronting e-commerce vendors today is whether current performance is good enough. Online vendors need to consider their customers’ shopping experience in order to assess existing barriers to stronger shopper responsiveness to digital storefronts. According to Adobe, the 2020 year-end holiday shopping season saw average daily online revenue exceed $3.1 […]
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumer buying behaviors have changed dramatically and e-commerce is booming. The 2020 holiday season alone saw online sales increase by a whopping 49 percent over the previous year. Meanwhile, eMarketer predicted last June that traditional brick-and-mortar retail sales in 2020 would drop by more than 10 percent. At […]
