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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Electronics Top Shopper Back to School Lists, SortPrice.com Says
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Retail, tagged back to school 2011, back to school shopping, Sortprice, Sortprice.com on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Are Online Sales Taxes Confusing Consumers?
Posted in General News / Technology, Online Sales Taxes, Retail, tagged applications, International Council of Shopping Centers, internet taxation, online sales tax, online sales tax debate, online sales tax legislation on July 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Groupon’s Privacy Policy Catches Lawmakers’ Attention
Posted in General News / Technology, Mobile Commerce, tagged Congressional Privacy Caucus, consumer privacy, daily deal sites, Groupon, privacy policy, privacy protection on July 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
SortPrice’s Facebook Store Application Gets Boost with New Flash Sale Feature
Posted in Ecommerce, Facebook Commerce, General News / Technology, Online Shopping, Retail, tagged daily deals, F-commerce, Facebook applications, Facebook Commerce, Facebook e-commerce, Facebook shopping, flash sales, Sortprice, Sortprice.com on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
The End Comes for Borders
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Online Shopping, Retail, tagged Borders, Borders bankruptcy, Borders liquidation, Direct Brands, Gordon Brothers Group, Hilco Merchant Resources, Mike Edwards on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
We’re on Vacation!
Posted in General News / Technology on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
E-commerce Sales Continue Scorching Run
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Retail, tagged e-commerce sales, June 2011 e-commerce sales, June 2011 online sales, MasterCard, MasterCard Advisors, MasterCard Advisors SpendingPulse, online sales on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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, [...]
Walmart Steps Up E-commerce Presence in China
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Retail, tagged Apple, China e-commerce, Gap, Groupon, PayPal, Walmart, walmart and china, Walmart China, Yihaodian on June 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
FBI Breaks Up Pair of ‘Scareware’ Crime Rings
Posted in Click Fraud, General News / Technology, tagged cyber security, cybercrime, FBI, malvertising, online scams, scareware on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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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