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Raley’s Facebook App, Grandparent Consumer Niche, Home Depot Spring Black Friday
Raley's Supermarkets has introduced Family Table, a new Facebook app that provides a week's worth of meal ideas using sale items, according to Supermarket News.Family Table subscribers get breakfast, lunch and dinner recipe recommendations directly on their Facebook pages.
Stats & Research
There are currently 69.6 million grandparents in the US, a figure expected to grow another 11% to...Continue Reading »
‘Daily Wrap:’ Holiday Sales, Amazon.com, Starbucks
Preliminary 2010 holiday sales, which combine the full months of November and December 2010, rose 5.7% to $462 billion, surpassing NRF's forecast of 3.3%. This represents the best holiday sales gain since 2004, when holiday sales increased 5.9%.
E-commerce & Multichannel Retailing
Online retailer Amazon.com intends to build its largest UK distribution center near Edinburgh, Scotland...Continue Reading »
‘Daily Wrap:’ Google, Macy’s, Holiday E-commerce
Google may launch a new mobile payments service this year, reports the New York Times.
According to "two people familiar with the plans," the new service would allow consumers to tap or wave their mobile phones at a cash register to pay for their purchases.
E-commerce
Macy’s plans to hire 725 workers during the next two years to help build up its Macys.com and other web...Continue Reading »
‘The Daily Wrap:’ Google, Amazon, Burger King
Yesterday, Google launched Google eBookstore, which will offer users the ability to browse and search through what the company says is “the largest ebooks collection in the world.’’ The Boston Globe reports the online store offers more than 3 million titles, including hundreds of thousands for sale and many more for free.
E-commerce & Multichannel Retailing
Amazon.com Inc. has...Continue Reading »
‘The Daily Wrap:’ Mobile Coupons, Staples, Borders
Will retailers see an advantage in mobile coupons? As reported by The Boston Globe, some applications that consumers may already be using have started to weave in special offers, although they may have to download the latest version to see them.
E-commerce & Multichannel Retailing
Staples, which entered the Australian office products market when it purchased Corporate Express in July...Continue Reading »
‘The Daily Wrap:’ GameStop, Google, B&N
Video game retailer GameStop has launched its new PickUp@Store service. This new program is free to use and allows customers to pick out the games they want online, select a store of their choice that has the game in stock, place a hold on the game and pick it up as soon as that same day.
M-commerce
The Google Goggles visual search app, available in iPhones and Android phones, allows...Continue Reading »
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‘The Daily Wrap:’ Wal-Mart, Search Engines, Pontiac
"The Daily Wrap" is a daily look at some of the headlines that may be of most interest to Retailer Daily readers.
Today's wrapup of industry-related headlines includes Wal-Mart releasing its list of top toys for the holiday season, a new search engine designed to weed out unhelpful options, and US auto brand Pontiac ceasing operations.
Seasonal Retailing
Wal-Mart unwraps top toys.
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Amazon, eBay Get Most September Visitors – Update
Online retailers Amazon.com and eBay received the most unique U.S. internet visitors out of all retail web properties in September 2010, according to [pdf] comScore MediaMetrix data.Amazon Gets Lucky with 13th Spot
Amazon Sites was the top U.S. web property whose primary function is retailing in September 2010, with about 76.7 million unique visitors, placing it 13th amongst all U.S....Continue Reading »
‘The Daily Wrap:’ Gap, CVS, Denny’s
Gap Looks Abroad
Department store retailer Gap Inc. is looking to international markets and its online business for growth, as it faces sluggish consumer demand in a saturated home market. At its recent annual meeting, the company said it aimed to double the percentage of sales from its international and online businesses, from 12% of sales last year, to about 25% by 2013. Source:...Continue Reading »
Social Media Mentions Benefit Restaurant, Tourism Retailers
Analysis of relative keyword activity in the hospitality/leisure segment of retail reveals social media is especially important to restaurant, tourism and spa retailers, according to a new study from HubSpot.Social Media Accounts for 50% of Restaurant, Tourism, Spa Keyword Activity
Results from the “Online Marketing Opportunity Report” indicate that when relative keyword activity is...Continue Reading »