We’re taking some time off to enjoy the holidays (and the fruits of our online holiday shopping!), so we won’t be posting any new items here for about a week. Don’t worry though, we’ll be back soon enough with plenty to cover and discuss–2011 is going to be a big year with some new features [...]
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Ecommerce Junkie is Off for the Holidays
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Discover Card Sweetens the Deal for Holiday Shopping
Posted in General News / Technology, Online Shopping, Retail, Uncategorized, tagged Black Friday, cyber monday, Discover, Discover More, holiday credit card promotions, holiday promotions, Motiva, Open Road on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
‘Tis the season to start enticing consumers everywhere with promotions to attract their holiday shopping dollars! Even though Black Friday and Cyber Monday are still weeks away, we can safely say that the holiday shopping season is already underway. Maybe the widespread sales haven’t begun just yet, but merchants and those associated with the retail [...]
Jewelry Expected to be a Top Item this Holiday Season
Posted in Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Retail, Uncategorized, tagged 2010 holiday shopping trends, holiday gifts, holiday shopping 2010, Matthew Shay, National Retail Federation, NRF on October 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hard to believe, but Christmas is only about 65 days away. As such, it’s not surprising that we’re already starting to see news on what items could be the most sought-after this holiday shopping season. Granted, year to year, popular product categories for the holidays tend to stay relatively the same—electronics, books, clothing, [...]
Research Forecasts Retail Growth this Holiday Season
Posted in Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Uncategorized, tagged 2010 holiday retail projections, 2010 holiday shopping forecast, 2010 retail projections, Bold Technology, Colin Sebastian, Lazard Capital Markets on September 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It seems like good news has been hard to come by all year when it comes to retail sales forecasts and data. While we keep hearing that the recession is over and that the economy is on the way back, retail sales data for most of 2010 seems to contradict such assertions. Of course, no [...]
Shop.Org to Launch Think Tank
Posted in Ecommerce, General News / Technology, Online Shopping, Uncategorized, tagged ecommerce think tank, National Retail Federation, NRF, retail think tank, Shop.org on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The retail industry has undergone a tremendous amount of change since the advent of e-commerce and online shopping. Even in the year and a half or so since we started Junkie, we’ve seen the introduction of many new technologies and expanded online offerings that have had a huge impact on the way traditional brick and [...]
AOL Co-Founder Jumps into the Online Wine Game
Posted in Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Uncategorized, tagged AOL, online wine sales, Revolution LLC, Steve Case, Vinfolio on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In an interesting bit of news, AOL co-founder Steve Case’s investment company Revolution LLC has announced that it is taking a stake in online wine seller Vinfolio, in a move that would give the privately held company more clout in a growing sector of e-commerce. Terms of the deal were not made available. Case has [...]
Amazon’s Ascends to Most Trusted U.S. Brand in New Report
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, brand loyalty, brand recommendations, Millward Brown, top U.S. consumer brands, TrustR scores on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In what we would consider a major indicator of just how much online shopping has permeated the American consumer culture, Amazon.com has become the top U.S. retail brand based on trust and customer recommendation according to a new study from research firm Millward Brown. Amazon was the only online-only outlet to crack the study’s top [...]
M-Commerce: An Introduction
Posted in Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Uncategorized, tagged m-commerce, mobile commerce, mobile retailers, mobile shopping, smart phones on January 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Remember when your cell phone was literally just a phone? Those days are long gone! Manufacturers have stretched their technological innovation to the point where cell phones have become a hub for many daily activities, including shopping. In that vein, mobile commerce, or m-commerce, is starting to become a very relevant and important component of [...]



