We've all heard of the rise of showrooming, but a new holiday shopping survey by Accenture says "webrooming" will actually be more popular this holiday season. Showrooming is the consumer practice of shopping competitors for comparisons ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Back-to-school shopping began earlier than ever this year, and according to NRF’s 2013 Back-to-School and Back-to-College Surveys conducted by Prosper Insights and Analytics, the average family with school-age children in grades K-12 ...
Tags: Back-to-School Shopping, Textile
Wal-Mart plans to use big data about a customer's usual shopping to automatically create shopping lists for them on its mobile app. That's one of the tools the world's largest retailer plans to use to improve the in-store shopping ...
Tags: Wal-Mart, Shopping Lists, Mobile App
Australia shoppers chasing bargains have a new tool - each other. Shopping aggregation site Lasoo has updated its app so that consumers can crowdsource the best price, location and availability by sharing barcode data scanned by their ...
Tags: Shoppers, Computer Products
When C&H Distributors opened its doors 75 years ago, there were no computers, let alone an Internet. The company, a leading provider of materials handling and storage solutions for businesses across the U.S., based its marketing efforts on ...
Tags: C&H Distributors, New Web Site
Retailers, encouraged by the housing market rebound and improving sales trends, are headed to the High Point Market with fairly lengthy shopping lists and an eye on some key categories, color and style trends. For some stores, business ...
Tags: Sales Trends, Furniture, Furnishing
SOMETIMES we run into brick walls making them sync with mobile devices. MANY of us use standard email calendars, tasks and notes to manage our lives, but we sometimes run into brick walls making them sync with mobile devices. Those walls ...
Tags: APP, Consumer Electronics, Mobile Device
Simple actions by consumers and food retailers can dramatically cut the 1.3 billion tonnes of food lost or wasted each year and help shape a sustainable future, according to a new global campaign to cut food waste launched today by the UN ...
Tags: Campaign, Packaging, Cut Food Waste
With Black Friday just a week away and the nagging feeling that we need to get our holiday shopping done, how much online buying will be done at work? If it's not, this is the question that should be on IT managers' minds, according to ...
Tags: holiday shopping, online shopping, time, bandwidth
Retail sales in November, which are typically viewed as the beginning of the holiday shopping season, showed a solid performance with annual and sequential gains, according to data released today by the United States Department of Commerce ...
Tags: retail sales data, sales, sales data, retail sales
We're all so used to jotting down our thoughts,novels or shopping lists on pieces of scrap paper or perfectly bleached white office sheets.Not to mention blowing our noses into disposable tissues.But how much do you know about where paper ...
Computerworld-Now that Black Friday is behind us and the holiday gift-buying season is under way,IT managers should be prepared for users doing a fair amount of that shopping at work. The widespread adoption of bring-your-own-device ...
Tags: Holiday Shoppers, smartphones, tablets
Holiday wish lists may deal another blow to the PC industry, according to a new survey. Asked if they'd rather receive a PC or a tablet as a holiday gift, 59% of respondents in a PriceGrabber survey opted for the tablet, the price ...
Tags: PC, tablet, holiday gift, iPad 3, Holiday Shopping
Benjamin Moore has introduced a new edition of its Chalkboard Paint that now is tintable in any of the more than 3, 300 hues available in the Benjamin Moore color system, allowing for choices that go beyond the classic black and green ...
Tags: market view, paint