Amazon has created what it claims is the world’s first smart holiday window, "Alexa in a Pear Tree," delivering an interactive experience conveyed through motion, sound and lighting effects. The display showcases Amazon's Alexa and other devices like Echo, Fire TV and Kindle while enabling visitors
Surpassing last year's gross merchandise volumes, Alibaba's 13th annual 11.11 global shopping festival brought in 540.3 billion RMB ($84.5 billion) in gross merchandise volume, the e-commerce company announced last week. A record 290,000 brands participated in this year's shopping festival, nearly two-thirds of which were small and mid-sized businesses,
IKEA will launch new Sustainable Living Shops in UK stores to help customers live more eco-friendly lives at home. Launching ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow (31st October - 12th November), it comes as research from the Swedish retailer discovered that more than half of Brits
Secondhand marketplace Poshmark launched a new program, Brand Closet, that lets big brands sell directly to Poshmark's 80 million users, according to a company release. Brands can share limited-time products, create brand pages, conduct email campaigns, manage inventory and logistics, and do one-on-one clienteling through Poshmark services. Poshmark began a pilot of
Alibaba Group kicks off Singles Day shopping festival with focus on sustainability After the success of its previous sales extravaganzas, Alibaba is hosting its 13th annual 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, the company announced on Wednesday. It will take place across two periods: the first between Nov.
Notpla aims to replace single-use plastic with a range of packaging products made from seaweed and plants that are naturally biodegradable. London-based startup Notpla (formerly Skipping Rocks Lab) has created a range of biodegradable packaging from seaweed and plants. The company first started in 2014 with their “Ooho” product, an
This article was originally written by Cara Salpini for Retail Dive. Joining others in the outdoors space, Eddie Bauer has launched a rental gear program via Arrive Outdoors. The program ships rental gear and apparel directly to consumers within the contiguous U.S., including to a home, a hotel
In an unpredictable year it's hard to see what's on the immediate horizon — particularly when it comes to consumer spending habits. 2020 has been full of wild cards. In years past, forecasting for the last quarter of the season seemed, comparatively, like a much more
As retailers across the world try to figure out how to make socially distanced shopping work, many are turning to tech to help tackle the challenges of Covid-19. One retailer though may have already had the tools needed to thrive in this new shopping world. For years,
Brick-and-mortar retail was already facing challenges on many fronts. Traditionally, consumers have been shifting their spending from the material to the experiential, and after many weeks of ecommerce buying, post-crisis online retail will surely be the default shopper preference for most product and service purchases.
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