Back-to-School Booms, Faces Supply Challenges

| Mike O'Brien

While record spending is anticipated for back-to-school season this year, consumers may experience shortages in certain areas due to high demand, reduced inventories and ongoing pandemic-related supply chain and distribution issues, as well as fewer discounts.

Curbside Pickup Goes Mall-Wide This Holiday Season

| Mike O'Brien

While Happy Returns has solved for the efficient consolidation of ecommerce returns at its growing network of mall-based returns bars, a new joint solution from BlueDot and Adeptmind aims to take the same approach on the purchase end by consolidating curbside pickup at U.S. malls. BlueDot’s CMO explains how it works.

Valuing and Selling Your Ecommerce Business

| Mark Goldfinger

Ecommerce has turned so mainstream that buyers are lining up to purchase them. So how to determine the value of yours? This is essential for getting to a sale but can also inform all kinds of decisions, from business expansion to estate management. Here are a few useful tools to determine how to best value your ecommerce business.

BigCommerce Acquires Feedonomics

| Mike O'Brien

BigCommerce added a significant piece to its arsenal by acquiring the assets of feed management tool provider Feedonomics for $145M as it does battle with Shopify to be a platform of choice for everything from SMB, mid-market and enterprises. Observers said it brings BigCommerce closer but Shopify is still in a runaway lead.

Hits of the Week 8-2-21

| David Hurwitz

week of 8/2/21 Ecommerce Fraud Prevention Firm Riskified Goes Public Ecommerce fraud prevention company Riskified has taken the major step into the public markets, launching an IPO today at $21 … Continue Reading →