KHD Buzz – Online Retail’s Big Holiday Challenge, eBay Goes Retro for the Holidays and More

This Holiday Shopping Season May Be a Huge Challenge For Online Retail’s Digital Readiness By all accounts with a more stable economy and with consumer confidence high, this holiday season is likely to be a bumper one for online retailers. But according to many experts – and some new reports – the biggest challenge any online retail…
KHD Buzz – Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15, Toys ‘R’ Us May Not Be Dead After All and More

Amazon is Raising Worker Minimum Wage to $15 per Hour – How Will That Affect Other Retailers? Last week Amazon announced that the minimum wage across their workforce is being raised to $15 per hour. The new minimum wage, effective Nov. 1, will affect more than 250,000 Amazon employees as well as over 100,000 seasonal employees…
KHD Buzz -Emojis in Marketing Emails, In-Store Retail Experiences Push Customers To Shop Online & More

Emojis in Marketing Emails – New Report Says They are Big Sales Converters Do you use emojis in your email marketing campaigns? If not, you might want to start doing so, as a new report from Leanplum, the mobile-marketing platform states observed an 81% increase in open rates — and a 363% jump in revenue — from…
KHD Buzz – PayPal Debuts Personalized Checkouts, Facebook Quiz App Exposed Masses of User Data, Should Google Home Be Free and More

PayPal Personalizes the Checkout Process If your business takes PayPal as a form of payment you and your customers are in for a change. PayPal is rolling out personalization features that will not only make it easier for consumers to pay for goods but hep merchants gain extra insights into their preferred shopping and payment habits. Read…
KHD Buzz – Amazon is Bigger Than You Thought, Target Aims for Same Day Delivery, Consumers Don’t Want to Get Personal and More

Morgan Stanley Break Down: Just How Big Amazon is in Online Retail We all know that Amazon is a huge player in online retail in the US, but do we ever really realize just how big they are? A recent Morgan Stanley report broke the numbers down and actually, big does not even really begin…
KHD Buzz – Deadly Retail Sins, Amazon Instant Pickup, AR Comes to QVC and More
Credit Suisse on the “Seven Deadly Sins of Retailing” There is no doubt that while some retailers are enjoying a great year so far there are others who are truly struggling and some who have lost the ‘battle’ to stay in business altogether in 2017. Now, having analyzed a slew of earnings reports for a…