Tag Archives: shopping cart abandonment

End of Amazon 1-Click Exclusivity, Start of Hilton Relationship

Each day seems newsworthy for Amazon. It appears on a regular in media stories and on social media sites. These are  just a handful of our 2017 posts on Amazon.   Amazon’s Desired Attributes for Job Applicants.   Amazon: King of the Retail World.   Amazon Dives … Continue reading

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Shopping Cart Abandonment: Still a Big Problem

For years, online retailers have had to deal with shopping cart abandonment — whereby consumers decide not to make purchases after placing items in their shopping carts. We have posted about this issue for years. As examples, see 1, 2, and 3. … Continue reading

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Why Consumers Still Abandon Their Shopping Carts and How to Fix This

Now that online retailing strategies are relatively mature, isn’t it time that more retailers figure out how to reduce the high rate of shopping cart abandonment? As Stefan Schumacher writes for the Payroll Blog: “Many online shoppers end up abandoning … Continue reading

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