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Recommendation engine increases Republic’s average order value by 22%
January 15, 2010 – 2:42 pm | Comments Off
Recommendation engine increases Republic’s average order value by 22%

The fashion retailer has seen the average order value on its website increase significantly since introducing Peerius’ recommendation technology.

Virtual farmers market lets consumers shop for produce in 3D
January 15, 2010 – 2:38 pm | Comments Off
Virtual farmers market lets consumers shop for produce in 3D

The usually low-tech world of farmers markets has leaped ahead with the launch of a 3D virtual market that lets shoppers ‘stroll around’ the stalls of 45 specialist food and drink producers.

LK Bennett to relaunch its website
January 15, 2010 – 2:36 pm | Comments Off
LK Bennett to relaunch its website

The fashion brand has picked Portaltech for its new ecommerce platform, while Pod1 will be responsible for the design of the new site.

Visual merchandising survey identifies latest shopper preferences
January 15, 2010 – 2:34 pm | Comments Off
Visual merchandising survey identifies latest shopper preferences

A US survey conducted by Adobe Scene7 provides detailed information on online shoppers’ visual merchandising preferences and identifies the ecommerce shopping features considered most useful for making an online purchase.

Guest Comment: The secret to monetising Twitter — Allow affiliates to tweet their way to profit
January 15, 2010 – 2:30 pm | Comments Off
Guest Comment: The secret to monetising Twitter — Allow affiliates to tweet their way to profit

LinkShare’s Liane Dietrich looks at the options for brands and retailers looking to profit from Twitter and identifies a way to get your affiliates selling for you on the microblogging site…

[DE] Germany’s Metro Group to open first branch in China
January 14, 2010 – 2:35 pm | Comments Off

Metro Group’s CE supermarket chain Media Markt is expected to open its first branch in China. The first store for consumer electronics (CE), Metro Group announced, will open in Shanghai, with ca. 100 more stores until 2015.

[DE] Bankcard glitch means unpleasant surprise for 30 million German cardholders
January 14, 2010 – 2:34 pm | One Comment

The first week of the new year held an unpleasant surprise for ca. 30 million German shoppers: Their new Eurocheque cards for 2010 were not accepted in most shops.

[DE] National domestic product of Germany shrank by 5% in 2009
January 14, 2010 – 2:33 pm | Comments Off
[DE] National domestic product of Germany shrank by 5% in 2009

According to the latest press release of the German government’s department of statistics (Statistisches Bundesamt, http://www.destatis.de), the German national domestic gross product (Bruttoinlandsprodukt, BIP) shrank by 5% in 2009. That was the largest downturn since …

comScore Reports $29.1 Billion in U.S. Retail E-Commerce Spending for Full November-December Holiday Season, Up 4 Percent vs. Year Ago
January 14, 2010 – 2:30 pm | Comments Off

For the full holiday online shopping season, $29.1 billion was spent online, marking a 4-percent increase versus the same period last year, says comScore.

Online sales up 91% at House of Fraser
January 12, 2010 – 2:14 pm | Comments Off
Online sales up 91% at House of Fraser

The department store chain has reported an increase in online sales of 91% for the eight week Christmas shopping period.

Tesco Direct sales up 50% over Christmas shopping period
January 12, 2010 – 2:12 pm | One Comment
Tesco Direct sales up 50% over Christmas shopping period

The increase was driven by a strong performance in toys, TVs, games and entertainment, including digital downloads, the retailer reports.

Calculate how much slow page load times actually cost you
January 12, 2010 – 2:07 pm | Comments Off
Calculate how much slow page load times actually cost you

Gomez has launched a free calculator which allows retailers to easily quantify how much revenue is at risk from slow page loading times.

Non-food, non-store sales up 26.5% in December
January 12, 2010 – 2:01 pm | One Comment
Non-food, non-store sales up 26.5% in December

Retail internet, mail order and telephone sales increased by over a quarter last month according to the latest figures from the British Retail Consortium.

International survey finds consumers want to interact with retailers across multiple channels
January 12, 2010 – 1:57 pm | 2 Comments
International survey finds consumers want to interact with retailers across multiple channels

And 79% are prepared to work with retailers to co-design new products and services that better meet their personal needs, according to a global survey of 32,000 consumers conducted for IBM.

JumpStart: Get up to speed on payments and fraud prevention
January 12, 2010 – 1:51 pm | One Comment
JumpStart: Get up to speed on payments and fraud prevention

Registration is now open for our next free-to-attend ‘JumpStart’ event focusing on payments solutions and fraud prevention, to be held in London on Thursday 11 February.

[DE] Google presents new smartphone Nexus One
January 11, 2010 – 2:36 pm | Comments Off

Search engine and ad business giant Google presented its first own smartphone Nexus One at its headquarter in Mountain View, California, and at the Consumer Electronics Show CES in Las Vegas.

[DE] Impact of user-generated content growing
January 11, 2010 – 2:32 pm | One Comment

“User-generated content” plays an increasingly significant part in buying decisions. There is a growing number of places on the internet where shoppers can read other users’ ratings of brands, products, and services.

[DE] Amazon reports healthy growth in Christmas season’s sales
January 10, 2010 – 2:37 pm | One Comment

Amazon reports healthy growth in Christmas season’s sales. Customers of Amazon ordered 110 products per second on all of Amazon’s websites – more than 9.5 mio. items on December 14th, 2009, and 1.7 mio. items in Germany alone.

[DE] BITKOM poll finds positive outlook for ITC industry in 2010, CE market to stay healthy
January 10, 2010 – 2:31 pm | 2 Comments

For 2010 there are positive signals of growth coming from the German hightech industry. According to a BITKOM poll, four out of five companies expect a noticeable increase in demand.

Online retail sales grew 21% to nearly £50bn in 2009
January 8, 2010 – 2:23 pm | One Comment
Online retail sales grew 21% to nearly £50bn in 2009

UK internet retail sales reached a total of £49.8 billion in 2009, according to research from Retail Decisions.