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Top e-retailers’ holiday offers get more numerous and creative
Among the top 100 online retailers, 76 emphasized home-page promotions during the week of Monday, Nov. 16, up from 68 the prior week, as more introduced daily deal offers. 68 offered free shipping, and 36 sent e-mail promotions.
Web sales grow for Gap, but at a slower pace
Web sales in the third quarter increased for Gap, but not nearly as fast as earlier this year. E-commerce revenue increased 4.9% in Q3 compared with 17% in Q2 and 13% in Q1.
Animated American Greetings e-cards talk it up
AmericanGreetings.com customers can now send e-cards featuring their own voices thanks to a partnership with vendor Oddcast.
Best Buy sees bump in traffic, Nielsen Online reports
Best Buy saw an 18% jump in year-over-year traffic for October, Nielsen Online reports. Conversely, there were 82% fewer unique visitors to the relaunched CircuitCity.com web site than there were a year earlier to the site of Circuit City Stores Inc.
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Retailers aren’t waiting to offer Black Friday deals
The day after Thanksgiving is no longer the kickoff for holiday bargains. In fact, several prominent multichannel retailers, including J.C. Penney and Best Buy are promoting Black Friday sales more than a week in advance.
E-commerce platform provider Truition is sold to business software company
CDC Software, which provides software to more than 6,000 companies has purchased Truition, whose online retail clients include MLB.com.
Online consumers give shout-outs to Macy’s and Best Buy
Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target continue to be the most-talked about retailers online, according to the Internet Retailer exclusive monthly Zeta Buzz Top 25 Retail Standings Index. But Macy’s and Best Buy shot up into the top five in October.
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Internet Retailer introduces the most comprehensive data resource on e-retailing:
Top500Guide.com. All data
on America's 500 largest e-retailers—80,000 facts in all—are now in an online database which users can access
anytime from anywhere and instantly generate reports in response to their custom queries. With the Top500Guide.com, subscribers can:
- Compare any group of e-retailers on any key aspect of e-retailing performance.
- Generate reports based on hundreds of queries.
- Access data on more than 1,800 e-retailing professionals.
- Review profiles and operating data on any e-retailer in the Top 500.
- Obtain a free copy of 2009 printed edition of the Top 500 Guide, coming in May.
For details, click here.
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