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- Home Depot invests online channel
Home Depot is sharpening its online business by debuting new in-store campaigns that note the convenience and cost-effectiveness of shopping online. "We know we were behind folks like Amazon.com," said Hal Lawton, Home Depot's president of online. "We've put a stake in the ground; we want to catch up and then get ahead." MarketWatch (8/14)       | eCommerce Replatforming Incentives for 2011!
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National retailers have redoubled their efforts to win more online shoppers who are boosting sales at Amazon and other online-only merchants. Toys R Us has a new robot-equipped warehouse that ships online orders the same day they come in. Walgreen has added more interactive services to its website, including the ability for customers to order drug refills by snapping a smartphone picture of the labels on their medicine bottles, and Macy's has created a teen-oriented Web series to showcase its fall fashions. Bloomberg (8/15) - Commerce 3.0 blurs the lines between in-store and online
Consumers want to shop for the best deals and they also want the product in their hands right away, and mobile technology is increasingly letting them have both. Armed with smartphones that allow them to comparison shop, more consumers are using the Internet's global reach to do their research before making their purchases at local retail stores, this article says. E-Commerce Times (8/13)  | The Plum Card®
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  - Q-and-A: Epicor's Duncan Taylor on the future of retail technology
 Retailers now have the technology to wow shoppers with mobile applications and optimized websites that live up to earlier promises, says Epicor's Director of Product Management and Store Solutions Duncan Taylor. In advance of the NRFTech event in Lake Tahoe, Nev., Taylor shared his views on everything from the future of mobile shopping to a tale of how one small merchant's tech investments boosted sales 1,400%. Retail's BIG Blog (8/15)  | Hot Topics | | | | Top five news stories selected by Shop.org SmartBrief readers in the past week. - Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.
| Companies in the News | | | | - Gilt Groupe makes a full-price move
Gilt Groupe launched Park & Bond, the firm's first step away from the flash-sale model toward more full-price luxury retail. The shift is essential to Gilt's growth, analysts said. Flash-sale websites hit the scene in 2009 and found success among aspirational consumers, but increased competition coupled with reduced production by manufacturers might mean flash-sale sites are hitting a rough patch, analysts said. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (8/14) - Flash-sale sites saw traffic increase in July
Zulily, a website for children's apparel, took the top spot for overall traffic to flash-sale sites in July, according to Experian. Amazon-owned Woot ranked fourth. LivingSocial Escapes, the vacation-package arm of the daily-deal site in which Amazon invested last year, came in third. Meanwhile, Amazon's flash-sale venture, MyHabit, saw its visitor count increase 128% since launching in May. InternetRetailer.com (8/12) - Wal-Mart revamps management structure for e-commerce
Two Wal-Mart Stores executives for online retail will leave as the company reassigns responsibility for e-commerce to executives in charge of each country's store operations. The company said the move will help consumers move seamlessly between in-store and online shopping. Wal-Mart also named Joel Anderson as president of U.S. e-commerce. InternetRetailer.com (8/12)  | |  | | The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS)
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| Shop.org Spotlight | | | | - Pacific Sunwear, Jos. A. Bank execs examine future of in-store mobile
Are you considering in-store phone check-in, check-out, QR codes or iPads for associates? In an upcoming Shop.org Annual Summit panel discussion, executives from Pacific Sunwear and Jos. A. Bank Clothiers will examine what a successful in-store mobile experience looks like in the U.S. as well as internationally, and which mobile tactics are really driving purchases. The Shop.org Annual Summit will be held Sept.12-14 in Boston. Learn more.  | - How to tap into the emerging site monetization boom
Retail search media helps companies monetize the vast majority of consumer site traffic that leaves without converting to a sale. A recent Searchandise addition to the Shop.org white paper library outlines how retailers can convert on-site search from a cost center to a profit center by tapping unused virtual shelf space while simultaneously strengthening supplier relationships via premium placement within the site. Read more. |
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