Tag Archives: competition

What’s on Your Shopping List? Part 1

Today’s post focuses on the popularity of gift cards during the holiday season. These cards are easy to purchase and enable the recipients to buy what what most interests them — while also being somewhat impersonal. Based on the recent … Continue reading

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A New Infographic About Online Retail Growth

As we know, online retailing is continuing to grow, while store-based retailing is rather stagnant. Here’s an interesting new infographic about online retailing by Robert Memery, Operations Manager at 2Flow (an outsourcing logistics solutions firm).  

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What’s the Biggest Global Shopping Day?

Last year, we wrote about the phenomenally successful 2015 online Chinese Singles’ Day, an annual event scheduled for November 11 that dwarfs Cyber Monday, which occurs on the first Monday after Thanksgiving each year. As reported by The Street: “Singles’ … Continue reading

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