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Blog posts tagged with 'Online Retail'

Monday, March 08

Big Online Business

By Brad

TechCrunch highlights a new report from Forrester Research that predicts online retail will continue to grow in the next five years — from $155 billion in 2009 to as much as $250 billion by 2014.

Thursday, January 07

Good Year for Online Retail

By Brad

Now that the holidays are behind us, retail numbers are starting to come in. As it turns out, one of the big winners this holiday season was online retailers. Reports TechCrunch:

For the full holiday online shopping season, $29.1 billion was spent online, showing 4 percent increase versus the same period last year, according to comScore. It looks like consumers spent just over $2 billion online over the past week, as $27 billion was spent online as of last week for the shopping season from November 1 through Christmas Eve. The day consumers spent the most online happened to be on Tuesday, December 15, a.k.a, “Green Tuesday,” with consumers spending a total of $913 million in one day.

Tuesday, December 22

A Happy Online Holidays

By Brad

How well is online retail doing this holiday season? The Wall Street Journal reports that while sales at traditional stores were flat compared to last year, online stores saw an increase in sales of 4%. In fact, on December 15 alone sales totaled $913 million — a new single day record.

Tuesday, December 01

A Bright Cyber Monday

By Brad

Fox News reports that online retailers experienced a surge in traffic and sales yesterday:

By 6:30 p.m. Eastern time on so-called Cyber Monday, Web shoppers had spent, in total, 11% more than they did a year ago at that time, according to Coremetrics Inc., a Web analytics company that tracks shopper behavior on the sites of more than 500 U.S. brands.

With overall online sales up an estimated 6%, yesterday is expected to be the biggest online retail day ever.

Monday, November 30

Holiday Cheer

By Brad

Mega-retailers Amazon and Wal-Mart have been waging a pricing battle online for holiday shopping dollars, and as TechFlash reports, so far they both appear to be winning—at least on the traffic front:

The two retailers saw a big jump in unique visitors on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, with Amazon up 28 percent and Wal-Mart up 22 percent, according to internet measurement firm comScore.

TechFlash also notes that online spending for “Black Friday” (AKA the busiest shopping day of the year) took a 11% jump over last year. And as earth2tech reports, all that business online has very real — and positive — effects on the environment:

[T]he carbon reductive powers of broadband-enabled dematerialization, or reducing physical goods and transportation with virtual options, is very real. According to The Climate Group’s Smart 2020 report published back in 2008, information and communication technology (ICT) can reduce the world’s carbon emissions across sectors by 15 percent (about 5 times the amount of the ICT sector’s own added carbon footprint). Dematerialization — from reduced transportation from e-commerce and telepresence as well as virtual goods replacing physical goods — could prevent 500 million tons of CO2 by 2020 (which is a little less than Australia’s total emissions in 2005).

Tuesday, October 06

’Tis the Season to be Worried

By Brad

Despite the recent economic troubles, online retail traditionally remained a bit of a bright spot — especially when compared to brick and mortar counterparts. But even digital businesses took a hit 3% last year, and as the New York Times reports, the forecast for this year’s holiday season isn’t exactly inspiring.

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