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With the back-to-school shopping season in full swing, what items are consumers targeting most? According to price comparison site SortPrice.com, electronics and gadgets are once again the most sought-after products in 2011.   The company rolled out its annual top 10 popular back to school products list yesterday, which is compiled using site traffic and user [...]

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The rise in new online sales tax bills in states across the nation has been a top story within the e-commerce and business press over the course of the past year or so.  It seems, however, that not everyone is reading those stories. In a newly released survey sponsored by the International Council of Shopping [...]

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Having established itself as the clear-cut leader in the growing daily deal industry with an army of loyal fans and customers as well as an anticipated $3 billion in revenue this year alone, one would be hard pressed to say that Groupon has anything to worry about these days. Or do they? Two members of [...]

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Already one of the leading F-commerce solutions in the industry, comparison search engine SortPrice.com announced this week that they’ve added another cool feature to their Facebook Store Application that allows merchants to run Flash Sales right on their fan pages. The company says the new component is just the latest in a long line of [...]

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Borders, which gamely filed for bankruptcy earlier this year and then committed heavily to a reorganization effort to save itself, is out of options and will now begin the process of liquidation. Thus ends the tenure of one of America’s most popular retail brands. “Following the best efforts of all parties, we are saddened by [...]

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The small staff at Ecommerce Junkie is on summer vacation for the week of July 11. As such, we won’t be posting any news this week. We’ll be back in earnest on Monday, July 18 and the rest of the month will include our next Junkie award winner and (hopefully) some excellent guest contributions in [...]

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While Friday’s big economic-related news announcement was definitely a downer—unemployment nationwide has increased and now sits at an ugly 9.2 percent—web retailers are rejoicing thanks to more good news for them. E-commerce sales in June increased 15.2 percent year-over-year according to the latest MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse report.  For those of you keeping score at home, [...]

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What happens when the world’s largest retailer decides to plant an e-commerce flag in the world’s most populous country?  We’re about to find out. Walmart announced this week that it has finalized an agreement with Shanghai’s government to set up an office in the Chinese commercial city that will serve as headquarters for the retailer’s [...]

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While the daily deals market has become increasingly crowded over the course of the past year or so, it would appear that all of the newcomers (and even those companies that have been at it for awhile) have a long way to go before they’re going to catch up with Groupon. A new report from [...]

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Chances are all of you have had to endure those pesky pop-up and online ads informing you that your computer is vulnerable to outside threats and that you must immediately update the machine’s security system.  Turns out that more often than not, those ads themselves are the threat. The FBI and Department of Justice this [...]

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