KHD Buzz – Lord & Taylor Goes Bankrupt, Consumers Increasingly Annoyed by Online Tracking and More
Lord & Taylor Files for Bankruptcy One of the longest established luxury department store chains in the US, Lord & Taylor, filed for bankruptcy last week, along with its parent company Le Tote. Read More Report: Consumers Increasingly Upset About Being Tracked Tracking consumers via cookies is a practice retailers have been making use of…
Top 3 Tools for Gathering Customer Feedback in 2020
Constant customer feedback is essential to any retail business. Not only does it allow you to understand what is working and what is not, feedback also allows you to come up with those crucial fresh ideas that will help your retail business continue to grow. The days of the paper customer card are long gone.…
Wholesale Product Spotlight – Green Hummingbird Garden Stepping Stone
As they are spending more time there, possibly more than ever before as staycations replace vacations, people are looking for easy, affordable ways to upgrade the look, feel and function of their outdoor living spaces. Our Green Hummingbird Garden Stepping Stone is a great way to do that. Stepping stones are very versatile and offer…
KHD Buzz – Will Congress Take on Online Retail Fraud, Mask Mandates Proving Hard to Enforce and More
Retailers Want Congress to Take on Online Retail Fraud in Tech CEO Hearings In an op ed, written by Brian Dodge, president of the Retail Industry Leaders Association, a plea was set forth to Congress to include the issue of criminal groups that sell merchandise stolen from stores on online social marketplaces in its hearings…
Overlooked Ways Web Hosting Affects Your Website’s SERPS Ranking
With the retail landscape becoming more and more challenging in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the time to start preparing for the holiday shopping season closer than you think, at some point, you should give some extra thought to the SEO basics that can give your website an extra boost in the search…
New at KHD – Positive Vibes Decorative Mirror Collection
We could all use all the positivity we can get in this confusing and challenging year, and as we are spending much more time there, that should certainly extend to the decor in our homes. One easy way to do this is by choosing to add a mirror from our new Positive Vibes Decorative Mirror…
KHD Buzz – June Retail Figures Up, Back to School Shopping Season Off to Slow Start and More
June Retail Figures Up Across the Board According to the Commerce Department, US retail sales increased 7.5% across the board in June, with the apparel industry seeing especially good gains. Read More More Stores Mandating Masks Nationwide Even though the states cannot agree on mask wearing more stores are mandating there use anyway, with Target…
Leveraging Psychology for Your Call-to-Action Buttons
Although your e-commerce site is probably filled with them how often do you take the time to examine and analyze how well your call-to-action buttons are converting? The very name of the button, call to action, states there is a necessity for the person engaging with them to be prompted to perform a task. Therefore, your call-to-action…
Wholesale Product Spotlight – Grand Vista Windchimes
Believe it or not people have been hanging windchimes outside their homes since those homes were caves! Over the course of thousands of years windchimes have been reputed to have a healing effect on our bodies while calming our minds and awakening our spirits, making them much more than simple garden ornaments. The best windchimes…
KHD Buzz – QVC’s COVID Comeback, The End of ‘Hero’ Pay for Retail Workers and More
How COVID-19 Revitalized Veteran TV Shopping Networks TV shopping networks like QVC and HSN were, at the start of 2020 considered by many old-fashioned and ‘not their thing’, especially Millenials. COVID-19 changed all that though, and now these networks are leading the way in creating the ‘new’ normal of post pandemic shopping. Read More Pandemic…