Got an in-box clogged with ads from retailers? You’re not alone. In recent months, many stores have been sending customers promotional e-mails at a pace of more than one per day. Spam-happy retailers such as Neiman Marcus deluged subscribers with over 500 e-mails in 2011. But amid studies showing that consumers are growing less likely to read, click on, or even open messages from retailers, some stores are deciding it’s time to ease off the e-mail flood.
For most employees, Monday means time to get back to the workaday grind. And it looks like retail therapy is often the prescription consumers use to cope with a “case of the Mondays.” The first day of the workweek is also almost always the biggest day of the week for online shopping — even after [...]
Here’s a look back at the frantic holiday shopping season that’s just passed—and that, among other things, reached a high point for self-gifting, shoplifting, free shipping, and procrastination. Without further adieu, this holiday season’s top 10 shopping trends.
Apparently, the regular old bustling holiday shopping season isn’t enough for retailers constantly looking for new ways to stir up business and increase sales numbers. Nowadays, to rouse consumers into ceaseless shopping sprees, it seems like every other day from the end of November through December is branded as a sales “event” of one kind [...]
Consumer debt figures show it: we’re getting tired of being so darned frugal. Here are five guidelines to keep you from borrowing too much.
Increasingly, online shoppers won’t complete their orders unless free shipping is part of the deal. Nearly two-thirds of online purchases last week were shipped for free.
Cyber Monday was the heaviest online spending day ever. Cyber Week brought in $6 billion — a record. And there were three days that week that eclipsed a billion dollars in spending. Bottom line: The online holiday shopping season has been a success so far.
Amazon has been promoting the heck out of an entire Cyber Monday Deals Week. Now, another week of Amazon deals has begun, like clockwork.
Shoppers have dropped tens of billions of dollars in stores and online over the last five days. What does such an impressive outpouring tell us about today’s consumer mentality, and the state of the economy as a whole?
Holiday promotions usually consist of discounts on electronics, toys, clothing, and the like. Drivers in the market for new wheels can expect good deals on cars on Black Friday too. But a Cyber Monday discount for a new home?
After blockbuster sales figures on Black Friday, retailers are expecting consumers to keep up the shopping pace on Cyber Monday. Shoppers have plenty of tempting offers to choose from.
