Growth in online sales dipped by 5% during the postal strikes at the end of October, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.

The search giant has rolled out ‘Product Extensions’, a way of showing specific product images and prices in AdWords ads, in the US market and the UK is set to follow.

‘Shopping and shipping’ service allows 93% of world’s online shoppers access to UK etailers.

The fashion designer has chosen Yoox Group to design and implement a new transactional website that delivers to shoppers in 46 countries around the world.

A number of fashion retailers including Faith, Jigsaw and Fenn Wright Manson are launching new affiliate campaigns via LinkShare in the run up to Christmas.

Why do so many organisations put their most effective channel in the hands of their least experienced marketers, asks E-Dialog International’s Simone Barratt, as she calls for more recognition — in terms of both budget and staff — for email marketing.

The upmarket supermarket chain is to re-platform using an IBM Websphere Commerce based solution that will be co-developed by Waitrose and Infosys Technologies.

The supermarket chain says it has seen a significant improvement in its bounce rate since adopting Maxymiser’s conversion management solutions

Having successfully reintroduced the Woolies name as an online-only venture earlier this year, there are now plans to bring Woolworths back to the high street as a franchise business, supported by the buying power of new owners Shop Direct.

The troubled bookstore has stopped taking orders on its website, as it seeks to raise money to see it through the Christmas period.

At a time of year when the pressure is on to find really creative ways of increasing sales, Kevin Rice of Clash-Media explains how online lead generation techniques can boost not only online sales, but also in-store sales.

Avail has launched a new online service aimed at enabling small to medium online retailers to improve their conversion and average order values — and Internet Retailing readers can win a six month free trial.

The multi-channel pet specialist has gone live with a new website developed by Salmon.

The quintessential Saville Row tailor is set to go live with a transactional website in time for the peak Christmas shopping period.

The recession will have little impact on online sales this Christmas, according to new research from GSI Commerce, with twice as many consumers as last year willing to spend four figure sums online.

International sales are up 35% on a year ago, says Amazon, with the fourth quarter set to see growth of between 21% and 36% over last year.

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There’s much more to designing an ecommerce site than making it pleasing to the eye, says Shine Marketing’s Stephen Pratley, as he outlines the three key skills that must be brought together to make sure your site isn’t a triumph of form over function.

UK sales at Asos climbed 33% in the six months to 30 September and international sales grew 112%, the fashion etailer has reported.

The company is using PayPal’s new Adaptive Payments APIs to enable consumers to shop on Facebook from multiple vendors in a single shopping cart.