Tag Archives: free shipping

Apr12

Q1 online sales up 28 percent over 2010

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: April 12, 2011
2 Comments | Posted in Research

While economic concerns still linger, it appears that many retailers have reason to be cheerful: retailers surveyed for Q1 2011 vs. a year earlier report that the average growth in web sales was a respectable 28 percent. Fifty-five retailers participated in the anonymous Quarterly Online Sales Flash Survey, conducted jointly by Shop.org and Forrester Research [...]

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Dec13

Holiday 2010 shipping deadlines – this week is THE week!

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: December 13, 2010
2 Comments | Posted in Holidays, IT/Operations, Retail Companies

FedEx predicts that today, December 13, will see its busiest day ever, moving close to 16 million shipments globally – and that’s up from 14.2 million on the same day last year. So it’s hardly a coincidence that standard shipping deadlines will hit this week for online retail. Newly released results from our 2010 eHoliday [...]

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Nov18

What Walmart’s free shipping offer means for retailers

By Margaret Case Little, Director, NRF | Published: November 18, 2010
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Shop.org’s Head of Research, Fiona Swerdlow, has already detailed why consumers are going bananas over free shipping this year. Last week’s announcement by Walmart also turned a few heads as they announced free shipping on over 60,000 products now through December 20. In a recent interview with Fox 5 in DC, Shop.org’s interim Executive Director [...]

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Oct24

Holiday ’08 – Good, but Not Great

By Scott Silverman | Published: October 24, 2008
1 Comment | Posted in Marketing

Of course, “good” is a relative term.  Forrester Research is predicting that online sales in November and December will increase 12%. They describe this as a “significant slowdown.” Yes, it’s a slowdown from years’ past. But, compared to the 2.2% growth NRF forecasts for overall retail it’s pretty good. And, earlier this week, Amazon provided [...]

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Sep17

Gap.com CEO Discusses International Strategy, Free Shipping, and Trading Down in Candid Q&A

By Ellen Davis, VP, NRF | Published: September 17, 2008
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At the end of his session, which Linda Bustos already covered very well, Gap.com CEO Toby Lenk had about 20 minutes left in his time slot and opened the floor up for questions. People were almost jumping out of their seats to get to the microphones first. Here were some of the most interesting components of [...]

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