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Personalized Home Page Promos Influence 85% Of Shoppers

Personalizing the consumer experience can have a significant impact on the path to purchase, and the effects start the second a would-be shopper enters an e-Commerce site. Personalized home page…

News January 31

How To Get Innovative About Innovation

For me, the days following the NRF Big Show are always a jumble of impressions: cool technologies, interesting new people I’ve met, old friends I’ve run into, and phrases that…

Editor's Perspective January 31

Why Did Shoes.com Lose Its Footing?

Canadian e-Commerce retailer Shoes.com abruptly shut down all three of its online brands — SHOES.com, OnlineShoes.com and ShoeME.ca — as well as its Toronto-based brick-and-mortar store on Jan. 27. The…

News January 31

Building A Brand From The Community Up

By Debbie Hauss, Editor-in-Chief We talk a lot about Influencers and Community in retail today, but we’re typically talking about a retail brand trying to develop Influencers or create Community.…

Executive Viewpoints January 31
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Office Depot Taps Former Lenovo EVP Gerry P. Smith As CEO

Office Depot has appointed Gerry P. Smith as CEO. Smith will succeed current CEO Roland Smith (no relation), who announced his retirement in August 2016. In his new role, Smith…

News January 31

UberRetail Uses Mobile Data To Evaluate Potential Store Locations

UberMedia has released UberRetail, a platform designed to help retailers, restaurants and developers identify and evaluate new storefront opportunities via real-world behaviors of local consumers.  UberRetail uses mobile device location data…

News January 31

Opterus Releases Store Ops-Center Version 16.3

Task management and store communications solution provider Opterus has released Store Ops-Center (SOC) Version 16.3. The cloud solution is designed specifically to simplify management and execution of store tasks and communications.…

News January 31

The State Of Mobile Commerce Search: Preparing For 2017

Mobile commerce has reached its tipping point. Mobile-optimized sites and shopping apps are no longer a “nice to have” for e-Tailers, but an absolute must in order to grow profitability…

Executive Viewpoints January 31

The Mobile Payments Landscape: Who’s Here and What’s to Come?

Mobile’s importance isn’t news anymore: 56% of online consumer traffic comes from mobile devices, but many retail marketers are still surprised by the pace of changing customer expectations and the cost and…

Executive Viewpoints January 31
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