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Weekly web spending up 20%-plus as holiday season unfolds
Description: Weekly web spending up 20%-plus as holiday season unfolds Shoppers spent $2.2 billion online during the week beginning Dec. 13, just about the same amount as the week before,
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Wegmans to deploy web-based procurement system
Description: Wegmans to deploy web-based procurement system Following a pilot in December, Wegmans Food Markets Inc. will deploy a hosted web-based procurement system designed to lower the
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Weighing spending options
Description: Online retailers are purchasing more e-commerce technology, but they`re also pickier and want more tools that drive traffic and convert sales.
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Weighing technology choices
Description: New e-commerce technology is no longer a choice between best-of-breed or single-source provider. Web integration technology makes both possiblein the same installation.
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Weight-based shipping buoys shopper confidence
Description: But only 10% of online shoppers surveyed believe thats the most reasonable way to assess shipping costs. And almost half, 45%, say they want shipping and handling charges to be based on the weight of the product.
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Weis Markets Partners With neXpansion(R) to Provide Its Customers With More Than 30,000 `Extra Choices`
Description: Weis Expands Product Selection With Addition of New Online Service
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Welcome to Internet Retailer
Description: Welcome to the first issue of
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Well-known brands raise a web sites credibility, typos kill it
Description: Well-known brands raise a web sites credibility, typos kill it Its said the devil is in the details and nowhere is that truer than in designing a web site that consumers
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WellnessGrocer.com puts frozen organic and natural food online
Description: WellnessGrocer.com puts frozen organic and natural food online An estimated 43% of U.S. consumers purchase organic products but there are few places to purchase a wide variety
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Wells Aims To Makes Online Shopping Easy
Description: Wells Aims To Makes Online Shopping Easy (www.wellsfargo.com) Wells Fargo & Co., San Francisco, is piloting the Wells Fargo EasyOrder online shopping service for automatic
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Wells Fargo hits $12 billion in processing web merchant payments, up 100%
Description: Wells Fargo hits $12 billion in processing web merchant payments, up 100% Internet merchant payments processed by Wells Fargo & Co. grew 100% year over year to nearly $12
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Wells Fargo packages Verified by Visa with other services
Description: Wells Fargo packages Verified by Visa with other services In its bid to offer a one-stop-shop for merchants credit card acceptance programs, Wells Fargo Corp. is the first to
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Wells Debra Rossi takes on a new responsibilities in a multi-channel world
Description: Wells Debra Rossi takes on a new responsibilities in a multi-channel world Debra Rossi has been named executive vice president, general manager of Merchant Payment Solutions,
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West Marine expands both internal search and search engine marketing
Description: West Marine expands both internal search and search engine marketing When Peter Harris took over as CEO of West Marine Inc. in January one of his first initiatives was to commit
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West Marine finds that e-mail catalogs may convert catalog shoppers
Description: West Marine finds that e-mail catalogs may convert catalog shoppers Some multi-channel retailers are trying out e-mail catalogs to see if consumers will change their ordering
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West Marine handles influx of BoatU.S. supplier base
Description: West Marine handles influx of BoatU.S. supplier base With its acquisition in January of retailer BoatU.S., West Marine Inc. needed to quickly increase its supply chain visibility
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West Marine selects Geoff Eisenberg as CEO
Description: West Marine selects Geoff Eisenberg as CEO West Marine Inc., a multi-channel retailer of boating supplies and accessories, has appointed Geoff Eisenberg as president and CEO. He
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West Marine steers customer acquisitions through Google and eBay
Description: West Marine steers customer acquisitions through Google and eBay With its web site traffic from search engines and its sales conversion rates at all-time highs, boating supplies
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West named senior vice president of e-commerce at Papa Johns
Description: West named senior vice president of e-commerce at Papa Johns Glenn West, vice president of information services and e-commerce at Papa Johns International, has been promoted to
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Western Warehouse uses kiosks to extend web to stores
Description: Western Warehouse uses kiosks to extend web to stores Coopers Inc.s Western Warehouse has installed web-enabled kiosks in all 29 stores in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and
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WesternWarehouse.com launches a layaway option
Description: WesternWarehouse.com launches a layaway option Seeking an additional way for customers to pay for purchases, WesternWarehouse.com has introduced a layaway plan for online
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Wet Seal Selects WebSideStory`s Outsourced Web Analytics To Lift Online Fashion Apparel Sales
Description: Leading Apparel and Specialty Retailer Will Use WebSideStory`s HitBox to Improve Online Marketing ROI, Increase Browse-to-Buy Ratios
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What A Difference A Year Makes
Description: When it comes to hiring e-retailing staff, what a difference a year makes.
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What Am I Bid on These Boxers?
Description: What Am I Bid on These Boxers? It's said you can buy just about anything online at eBay. Now, you can buy an Internet retailing company as well. The web site Underneath.com, an
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What Federated sees in Fingerhut
Description: What Federated sees in Fingerhut Federated Department Stores' $1.7 billion buyout of Fingerhut Companies Inc. strikes some analysts as a marriage of odd partners, but that deal
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What Federated sees in Fingerhut
Description: This is an odd couple marriage that was a surprise to a lot of people because Federated and Fingerhut have no similarity in product, says Sid Doolittle, founding partner, McMillan/Doolittle, a Chicago retail consulting company. But Federated bought Fingerhut because they want to become educated in the direct marketing and Internet sales business and Fingerhut is a master at developing and maintaining individual customer relationships.
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What HPshopping.com looks for in a search engine marketing agency
Description: What HPshopping.com looks for in a search engine marketing agency When choosing a search engine marketing agency, consider technology, reporting and account management, says
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What Harry & Davids IPO papers say about its e-commerce base
Description: What Harry & Davids IPO papers say about its e-commerce base E-commerce accounted for 17%, or about $59 million, of Harry & Davids direct marketing sales in fiscal 2005, the
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What Internet users want: more instant messaging, less clutter
Description: What Internet users want: more instant messaging, less clutter Nearly 60% of residential Internet service subscribers are also users of an instant messaging service, according to
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What London museums can teach e-retail about web content management
Description: What London museums can teach e-retail about web content management Content management is becoming a key means of differentiation for leading e-retail sites, with the way most
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What Merchants Want
Description: Retailing tactics are gaining traction in the online world
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What Switchboard learned from its customers
Description: What Switchboard learned from its customers The idea for Westboro, Mass.-based Switchboard Inc.s Nearbuy Merchandising service, which allows consumers to use their cell phones
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What Teens Want
Description: E-retailers looking for teens focus on hip products and content
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What U.K. online retailers must do to preserve their 208% July boost
Description: What U.K. online retailers must do to preserve their 208% July boost The U.K.s 24/7 promotion last month boosted online sales in the U.K by 208% over the previous year,
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What We Must Do
Description: In the wake of the despicable and savage attacks on America on September 11, it is impossible to return to life as we knew it. It is difficult to focus on those things we are accustomed to doing. Difficult for us to publish this magazine. Difficult for you to operate stores, distribute catalogs, market web sites, and provide Internet services.
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What a Day for a Daydream
Description: Sometimes an online retailer wants customer service reps thinking about something else
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What a Teen Wants
Description: A direct competitor to Icanbuy.com and the second online teen payment vehicle to launch (June 1999) is Mountain View, Calif.-based RocketCash. With a snazzy teen web page, RocketCash, like Icanbuy.com, provides an online shopping mall in which kids can spend their money at such retailers as Toys R Us, J. Crew and CDNow.
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What a concept: Quixtar gift program lets recipients pick what they want
Description: What a concept: Quixtar gift program lets recipients pick what they want Online health and beauty retailer Quixtar Inc.s Ribbon brand is a new online gift program that enables
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What a difference in 20 years
Description: The same publishing team that produces this monthly magazine launched its first publication 20 years ago this month, a newsletter called
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What a five-year-old has to teach online shoppers
Description: What a five-year-old has to teach online shoppers Lands End became the first major retailer to implement online live text chat service when it added it to its web site in 1999,
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What a woman wants when shopping online
Description: What a woman wants when shopping online Clothing retailer Brooks Brothers is out to increase sales of its womens line, and its been able to do just that online with campaign
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What analytics can tell retailers
Description: What analytics can tell retailers While visitor and customer analytics can tell web site operators whats working online, they also can yield information on what isnt working,
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What are retailers buying? Online searches provide some answers
Description: What are retailers buying? Online searches provide some answers One of the benefits of doing business on the Internet is that with the right technology, marketers can find what
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What are you gonna do when customers wont wait 4 seconds? Speed up the delivery
Description: The notion of content acceleration is new enough that everyone has a different definition. The idea can be interpreted a number of ways, depending on where the acceleration takes place. And the notion is nebulous enough that few can get their hands around the entire concept. As a result, no one really has a handle on the market. Several analysts say they have yet to evaluate the vendors in the market because the topic is so vast. It is confusing, theres a lot of issues involved with this technology, Covill says.
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What can stop the e-retailing rocket
Description: Its tempting to think that nothing can stop e-retailings momentum. Tempting but foolhardy.
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What car dealers lose by ignoring e-mail marketing
Description: What car dealers lose by ignoring e-mail marketing Though automotive dealers are gradually getting better at e-mail marketing, there is a significant sales upside to dealers who
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What color is your search engine?
Description: What color is your search engine? Search engine and comparison shopping site ShopWiki has introduced an advanced image analysis feature that enables shoppers to narrow product
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What decentralization might mean for Sears web strategy
Description: What decentralization might mean for Sears web strategy Sears Holdings Corp. will face complex challenges in running a cohesive web strategy now that the company is going ahead
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What do e-customers want? Reliability
Description: What do e-customers want? Reliability Many consumers are wary and distrustful of online retailers, and these feelings prevent online retailing from becoming even bigger than it
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What do women want online? Easier, more personalized shopping
Description: What do women want online? Easier, more personalized shopping Women want their online shopping experiences to make their lives easier. Thats the outcome of research based on a
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