Category Archives: Online Retailing

Bricks-and click retailing and online-only retailing are covered here. There are lots of posts on multi-channel retailing.

How Do We Make Digital Consumers Happy?

Digital consumers can be quite demanding. Below are two valuable resources for us to better understand digital shopping and to learn how to better act in serving these customers.   First, click on the image to access “The Digitally Demanding … Continue reading

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Wiser’s 2016 Online Retailing Predictions

As we have reported before (see, for example, 1, 2, 3), there are a lot of retailing trends to follow in 2016. Here is an interesting infographic about retailing 2016 from Wiser. Wiser is an online data analytics firm: “For retailers, it’s … Continue reading

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Online Retailers Not Always Offering Real ‘Sales’

As we wrote a short time ago, companies are not always transparent or honest when they say an item is ‘on sale’ when it really is not: “Unfortunately, many retailers misuse the term ‘sale.’ And shoppers are often persuaded that … Continue reading

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