Global ecommerce consultancy Salmon has announced that the UK retail sector can expect to see a rise in international orders during Black Fiveday, the five-day period around and including Black Friday.
The mobile phone is now used more on Christmas than at any other time of the year, with two out of three transactions completed on a smartphone, according to new research looking into festive shopping trends.
With two days until Black Friday 2016, Affiliate Window has launched a live-data visualisation website.
Google has updated its Maps feature with a new tool that shows whether a bar or shop is busy in real-time.
Mobile is changing the way consumers shop on the high street, with a report identifying six new different shopping behaviours, to help retailers understand what motivates them.
UK shoppers will spend £5 billion in a four-day internet shopping frenzy from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. However, according to predictions by innovative retail data intelligence specialists, Clear Returns, £1 billion of these products purchased online will be returned by shoppers.
Visitors to Covent Garden can experience the Christmas shopping spree of the future this festive season as the area transforms into the world’s first augmented reality (AR) retail district in partnership with pioneering AR app Blippar.
US consumers are currently buying from UK retailers, with 77% of US consumers purchasing outside the US, according to new research.
Consumers who share a brand’s content are nine times more likely to purchase and, thus, highlights how brands can tap into consumer sharing activities and signals to identify and predict new customers, according to new research.
A fifth of all gifts bought this year will be technology related (20%), with the average technology spend across the country on tech gifts will be £267, according to new research.