UK retail sales increased by only 1.4% in December year-over-year, or 0.6% on a same-store sales basis, according to retail trade group BRC (British Retail Consortium). Those numbers are anemic compared to US growth rates (5.5% growth in November and Read more
First Data said the recent holiday shopping season was the strongest in four years. Ecommerce represented 29% of total transactions, up from 26% in 2016, it reported. First Data also observed a dip in the average ecommerce ticket size along Read more
Holiday sales during November and December increased 5.5 percent over the same period in 2016, according to retail trade association NRF (National Retail Federation). The results exceeded NRF’s forecast and marked the largest increase since the 5.2 percent year-over-year gain Read more
FedEx expects holiday shopping to continue into January thanks in part to gift cards. FedEx Express Canada commissioned a survey that revealed three quarters of Canadians who planned to shop after the holidays were doing so to take advantage of Read more
Mastercard published SpendingPulse holiday data today showing that retail sales grew 4.9 percent, the largest year-over-year increase since 2011. Online sales grew 18.1 percent compared to last year, boosted by a late season rally. Interesting is the report’s findings that Read more
Amazon issued an after-Christmas press release – as always, it talked a lot about its services but was shy on details. Regarding third-party merchants and small businesses, Amazon revealed the following: “Customers shopped from hundreds of millions of products, including Read more
Amazon extended its free-shipping deadline to Saturday, December 16, 2017. While members of its Prime program continue to have fast and free shipping options through December 24, non-Prime members now have until Saturday to order millions of eligible items (on Read more
Christmas Eve is only 11 days away and falls on a Sunday this year, but that’s no problem for Amazon shoppers, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. It urged shoppers to “try Prime for free for 30-days Read more
Amazon said customers ordered 140 million items from small businesses on its marketplaces worldwide over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It also announced that Cyber Monday was the single biggest shopping day worldwide in the company’s history. As usual, it was Read more
Merchants using ecommerce platform BigCommerce grew same-store sales 21 percent over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend compared to last year – thanks in great part to its mobile-friendly features. BigCommerce said mobile accounted for 49 percent of sales, though it noted Read more
