Category Archives: Retail Marketing

24 Retail Stocks With the Highest Dependency on Q4

by Christina Lavingia November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 We’re fast approaching the holiday season, which starts with Thanksgiving and — sometimes on the same day — evolves into the shopping spree that characterizes the gift-giving season. Just as shoppers will be looking for the right gift at the best price, retailers will be looking to … Continue reading 24 Retail Stocks With the Highest Dependency on Q4

Online Retail Traffic And Conversions Warmed Up Last Week

Aggregated statistics from e-commerce sites across verticals reveal the dominance of mobile and the most popular on-site search terms. Pamela Parker on November 11, 2015 As we did last year, Marketing Land will be providing our readers with the latest information on holiday e-commerce activity weekly in 2016, giving retail marketers benchmarks as the season goes … Continue reading Online Retail Traffic And Conversions Warmed Up Last Week

Retailers: How To Engage Mobile Holiday Shoppers This Year

Many retailers are still not taking advantage of the power of mobile to increase in-store sales; columnist Allan Haims explains why and how they should. Allan Haims on October 23, 2015  While consumers are unquestionably connected to their smartphones, only a fraction of them is shopping via their mobile devices, which represents a huge missed … Continue reading Retailers: How To Engage Mobile Holiday Shoppers This Year

Exploding The World of Retail Opportunity – It’s Time to Have a Crisis

Dan McClureOctober 12, 2015 Retail never stands still. When A&P invented the modern grocery store in the 1950s, its rapid rise to prominence was eclipsed thirty years later by discount empires such as Kmart and Walmart, who themselves are now threatened by online players like Amazon, who churlishly refuse to stay solely online.To talk about … Continue reading Exploding The World of Retail Opportunity – It’s Time to Have a Crisis

Want Big Sales This Holiday Season? Target the Corporate Gift Market

Gail OliverAugust 27, 2015 If you really want to guarantee big sales this holiday season, one market you’ll want to consider targeting is the corporate market, and you will want to start preparing for it now. According to a report from the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI), last year companies were planning to spend $ 43 … Continue reading Want Big Sales This Holiday Season? Target the Corporate Gift Market

From the Store and Online to Multichannel: Retailing Gamechangers of the Last Decade

Ian JindalAugust 18, 2015 Over the last decade the shopping journey has been redefined. Where once it started with a trip in the car or on the bus, today the chances are that we’re checking availability on a mobile device, ordering online for home delivery or popping into a shop when it suits us to … Continue reading From the Store and Online to Multichannel: Retailing Gamechangers of the Last Decade

June retail sales data beats expectations

Markets and economy reporter Consumer spending picked up in June, fuelled by categories such as electronics. Photo: Getty Images Retail sales surged in June, easily beating expectations, as consumers and small businesses opened their wallets to spend on electronics, furniture, housewares and do-it-yourself renovations and hardware. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday seasonally-adjusted … Continue reading June retail sales data beats expectations