Wholesale Product Spotlight – Red Rooster 3 Tier Baskets
Running short on storage space in your kitchen, or need a place to stash all those supplies for your next culinary experiment? Don’t want to have to spend hours – and a small fortune – installing new shelving or cabinets, but want something that is more aesthetically pleasing than plastic storage boxes? Then our bestselling…
KHD Buzz – Holiday Spending Up By 8.5%, Retail Store Openings Matched Closings in 2021, 2022 Retail Predictions and More
Facing Rising Return Costs, More Retailers are Telling Customers “Just Keep It” Retailers are finding it harder to justify free returns due to recent supply chain issues and workforce shortages. According to Optoro, when a buyer returns a $50 item, it costs retailers an average of $33, up 59 percent from last year. Customers are…
End of Year eCommerce Website Audit Checklist
Many factors influence the user experience and overall effectiveness of your eCommerce site. You must undertake periodic audits of your eCommerce site’s performance if you want to keep engaging with current consumers, acquire new customers, and enhance conversions and increase your average order value (AOV). And the time between the end of the holiday shopping…
New at KHD – Cow Cast Iron Soap Dish
Although we should have always been paying attention to it, handwashing has become a much bigger deal over the last 18 months. Which means that having hand soap available right at your sink(s) has become a bigger deal, too. Hand soap without a soap dish usually ends up too wet and mushy to use, so…
KHD Buzz – Retail Sales Up in November, Sears Moves into Real Estate and More
November Retail Sales Were Up – But Not By As Much As Expected As buyers faced rising inflation and supply constraints, retail sales grew moderately at the start of the Holiday season. The Commerce Department reported that sales at U.S. retail stores, internet stores, and restaurants increased by a seasonally adjusted 0.3 percent in November…
Tips for Increasing Ecommerce Sales Using Psychological Pricing
Whether you’re selling a product or a service, you’ll need to set a price for it at some point. It’s not always straightforward or clear how to price something, and many ecommerce business owners just slap a number on a product listing and hope for the best. However, there should be a bit more thought…
Wholesale Product Spotlight – White Filigree Candle Lantern
Candle lanterns are an essential piece of home decor that you should include in your home design capsule. Lanterns add plenty of physical and figurative light and ambience, as well as visual intrigue, to any space, whether utilized to shed light or simply to fill a spare corner. Our best-selling White Filigree Candle Lantern is…
KHD Buzz – AWS Outage Causes Logistics Delays, FedEx On Track for Record Year and More
Amazon Web Services Outage Disrupts Amazon Holiday Delivery Logistics The Amazon Web Services cloud went down last week, bringing all Amazon.com warehouses across the country to a halt. The disruption, which impacted an unknown number of AWS clients, occurred as Amazon and others attempted to deliver goods to customers in time for the holidays. Read…
How to Increase Ecommerce Profits Using Holiday Returns
We’re in the midst of what is expected to be yet another record-setting holiday shopping season! However, before you can calculate your profits, you must deal with the unavoidable side effect of increasing sales: an increase in returns. Hopefully, you’ve done everything you can this holiday shopping season to reduce online returns, from providing a…
New at KHD – Wall Mounted Ornate Cast Iron Bird Feeder
Many of us want to think of ourselves as compassionate to the other creatures who inhabit our planet, especially the birds who brighten up our yards. When birds need the most energy, such as during temperature extremes, migration, and in the winter and early spring, when natural food sources are low, bird feeding is most…