Forget Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter… the fastest trend in retail is new buzzwords. Rarely does a week go by without a new epithet being coined: cross-channel, multi-channel, omni-channel, big data, little data, m-commerce, f-commerce, social graph, me-business, we-business etc.
Recently, Amazon overtook HMV as the UK’s primary retailer in the entertainment sector, a graphic illustration of the success of the Internet behemoth’s international expansion strategy.
A recent report from Forrester* states that most US and European-based manufacturers still focus on eCommerce in North America and Europe and that brands should be exploiting multiple markets via the online channel. International retail is not a new concept but few do it well and there are numerous examples of ven
Recent research* found one in 10 retail searches come from a mobile device and that mobile retail search grew 168 per cent in Q3 of 2011 compared with the same quarter in 2010.