At times it may seem as if nobody could take on Amazon and win. But the founder of Jet.com believes …
Frenzy Around Shopping Site Jet.com Harkens Back to Dot-Com Boom
22 Thursday Oct 2015
Posted in Chapter 06: Retail Market Strategy
Tag Archives: Online retailing
Online Pricing Is Secretly Discriminatory
27 Friday Mar 2015
Posted in Chapter 14: Retail Pricing
Price discrimination sounds terrible, but it is ubiquitous in practice, in the form of coupons, senior discounts, and early bird …
Internet Drags Down Some Retailers’ Holiday Profit
25 Wednesday Mar 2015
If all retailers needed to worry about were sales levels, channels would not matter. But sales made with tiny margins …
The Challenges facing the Online Grocery Business
03 Tuesday Mar 2015
Nobody likes grocery shopping. That seems to be a universal truth that retailers have learned, and it may underlie the …
U.S. Officials Chase Counterfeit Goods Online
03 Tuesday Feb 2015
Posted in Chapter 13: Buying Merchandise
With a nice web design and a few pictures sourced from other sites, online counterfeiters are able to convince many …
Nordstrom Continues Digital Push with Trunk Club Deal
18 Tuesday Nov 2014
Posted in Chapter 18: Customer Service
To name its e-commerce division, Nordstrom chose the label “Direct,” and it appears to be taking that name to heart …
One Way Online Shopping Is Actually Helping Brick-and-Mortar Retailers
13 Thursday Nov 2014
In our last newsletter (see “Reverse Showrooming: Bricks-and-Mortar Retailers Are Fighting Back Against Amazon And Others”), we noted the rise …
How Online Retailing is Impacting Retail Spaces
02 Tuesday Sep 2014
The impact of online retail channels on both customers and retailers in the past two decades has emerged in some …
What’s the Rush for Same-Day Delivery?
30 Wednesday Jul 2014
It isn’t just Amazon. Several notable retailers, including Walmart and eBay, also are pursuing the goal of same-day delivery, promising …
Online Retailers Are Selling More than Just Stuff; They’re Selling Eyeballs and Audiences
08 Tuesday Jul 2014
Posted in Chapter 15: Retail Communication Mix
In the early days of e-commerce, retailers worried about including too many ads on their sites, for fear that annoyed …
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