KHD Buzz – Target vs. Amazon, How Best Buy Thrived in Lockdown and More
Target Plans to Go Head to Head with Amazon in October After Amazon announced the delayed 2020 Prime Day sales will be staged on October 13 and 14, 2020 other retailers began announcing October sales too, including Target, who will be hosting “Deal Days” on the same days, and plans to extend Black Friday deals…
KHD Buzz – Mobile e-Commerce Soars, Walmart Rolls Back COVID Restrictions and More
Report: 44% of Online Sales Now Made Via a Mobile Device According to a new report from eMarketer, 44% of e-commerce sales are now mobile purchases, with even older demographics making the switch, and 80% of the survey the report is based on’s respondents stating they have made at least one mobile purchase since the…
KHD Buzz – Walmart Still Interested in TikTok Buyout, Deloitte Predicting Slower Holiday Shopping Season and More
Report: Consumers Cut Back on Spending in August According to a report from the Commerce Department, consumer spending decreased in August. With 30 million Americans still unemployed this is likely because the $600 weekly unemployment subsidy expired in July. It was replaced by a $300 weekly supplement, which was not available in all states, and…
KHD Buzz – Walmart+ Launches, Amazon Drones Get FAA OK and More
Walmart+ Launches September 15th, But “Not a Competitor” For Prime Business This month, Walmart is launching Walmart+, their subscription service that will offer free online shopping deliveries, and access to a Scan & Go app in the chain’s stores. The service will cost members $98 a year or $12.95 a month. But the company insists…
KHD Buzz – More Small Retailers Headed Online, REI to ‘Lean Into’ All Remote Work, The Strange Back to School Shopping Season and More
Shopify Reports 71% New Store Jump in Q2 When unable to open at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with many physical stores still struggling to pull customers in many small retailers are heading online, as evidenced by a new Shopify report that states the number of new stores opening via their platform jumped…
KHD Buzz – Facebook Launches TikTok Clone, Undelivered PPE, Dangerous Hand Sanitizer and More
FTC Fielding Thousands of Complaints About Undelivered PPE According to the FTC they are currently working on a backlog of more than 34,000 consumer complaints about household PPE – non-surgical masks, hand sanitizer, thermometers and more – that consumers ordered in April and May that they were charged for but never received. Read More FDA…
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…
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…
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…
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…