Don’t fret if you missed out on big online sales offered on Cyber Monday, or the site-wide discounts that followed. In the current e-retail scene, it’s all but guaranteed that when one set of deals expires, another slew of …
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Green Monday? Gift Card Weekend? Enough With the ‘Special’ Holiday Shopping Events Already!
Is Amazon Due for a Backlash Because of Its ‘Evil’ Price Check App?
There’s a long, storied history of retailers battling it out for holiday shopping dollars. Price wars, seasonal promotions aimed at one-upping the competition, and price-matching guarantees are all commonplace, and considered …
Holiday Shoppers Hitting Pawn Stores in Big Numbers
It has been a huge year for retail sales so far in the holiday shopping season, with $52 billion spent over Black Friday weekend and another $6 billion spent online during the “Cyber Week” that followed. Here’s one more hot …
Use Amazon’s Price Check App and Save $15 This Saturday
How’s this for a brazen move to steal business away from brick-and-mortar stores? Under normal circumstances, a shopper using Amazon’s Price Check app in a physical store can instantaneously check to see if Amazon sells the same merchandise for a better price. This Saturday, however, when a consumer uses the app, Amazon will show its …
40% or More Off! Cyber Monday’s Over, But Huge Online Discounts Keep Coming
The Monday after Thanksgiving is renowned for site-wide discounts from e-retailers. Combined with nearly universal free shipping promotions, sites knocked 30% or more off all merchandise purchased online, helping to make for the biggest Cyber Monday sales numbers ever. While Cyber Monday is gone, the deals aren’t. Actually, in some ways, …
Holiday Spending: Just How Important Is Free Shipping to Online Shoppers?
Increasingly, online shoppers won’t complete their orders unless free shipping is part of the deal. Nearly two-thirds of online purchases last week were shipped for free.
Flash Fashion 101: How to Make the Most of Gilt, Rue La La and Other Sale Sites
It’s not surprising that fashion deal sites like Gilt Groupe, Rue La La and Ideeli, which often offer designer merchandise discounted up to 80%, have garnered more than 5 million members in just a few short years. As these …
Amazon Flurry Deals: A Week’s Worth of One-Day-Only Holiday Discounts
You have to hand it to Amazon: The e-retail giant knows how to drag out a shopping season. Its Black Friday promotions didn’t start a mere day, or even a week early, but 24 days before the Friday after Thanksgiving. While most …
Watch Out Amazon: Google Looking to Venture into Delivery Services
After watching Amazon corner the online retail market, Google is in talks with merchants to begin a delivery service that would allow users to order items online from local stores and receive them within a day. But does it make …
What We Learned from the Black Friday-Cyber Monday Shopping Extravaganza
Shoppers have dropped tens of billions of dollars in stores and online over the last five days. What does such an impressive outpouring tell us about today’s consumer mentality, and the state of the economy as a whole?
Check Out All the Best Cyber Monday Shopping Deals
After blockbuster sales figures on Black Friday, retailers are expecting consumers to keep up the shopping pace on Cyber Monday. Shoppers have plenty of tempting offers to choose from.
