More than one-third of holiday shoppers preferred to both research and buy products online, according to a survey by ForeSee Results, an Ann Arbor, MI-based customer satisfaction measurement and management firm.
The quarter ended Dec. 31 turned out to be a blockbuster for multichannel gifts marketer 1-800-Flowers.com.
If you’re like most online retailers, you’re never 100% satisfied with your Website. We click through competitors’ sites, exultant where we find we have an edge, wincing on the discovery of a cool feature the other guys have.
Chicago-based Direct Marketing Services Inc. (DMSI), the multititle mailer that acquired Montgomery Ward out of bankruptcy in June 2004, has launched a Spanish-language version of the Montgomery Ward Website
If you waited until Thanksgiving to begin promoting your holiday offerings online, you waited about a month too long. According to a study from Oneupweb based on data from more than a million consumers, the online holiday shopping season started in October.
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When London-based gadgets and gizmos merchant Firebox launched a U.S.-based e-commerce beta site in early October, it did so without a multimillion-dollar splash.
In continuing its international expansion plans, apparel, sporting gear, and home goods cataloger L.L. Bean has its sights set north of the border.
Shari Fitzpatrick, who founded Sacramento, CA-based cataloger/retailer Shari’s Berries in 1989, launched another online store, the Berry Factory, in November.