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.
Today is Free Shipping Day, when over 2,500 e-retailers offer free shipping on at least some purchases. Considering that free shipping promos have been fairly standard throughout the holiday season, and that free shipping is offered after Free Shipping Day has passed, the reaction to today’s shopping event may be: big whoop. But what if [...]
Free Shipping Day takes place this Friday, December 16. But before and after Free Shipping Day, guess what’s readily available to online shoppers? Yep, free shipping.
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 [...]
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.
As we enter the final stretch of the holiday shopping season, a picture emerges of today’s consumers. Among other things, the stats show that we’re buying more online, we’re buying more for ourselves, we’re using credit cards less, we’d be willing to shop in our underwear if it meant avoiding long lines at cash registers, [...]
Man, they really pack these made-up holidays together: National Regifting Day yesterday, and now Free Shipping Day today, Friday, December 17, 2010. Luke Knowles created the faux holiday two years ago and has watched it grow like crazy, with more than 1,500 retailers participating—i.e., offering free shipping, and a guarantee items will arrive by December [...]
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Thursday, December 17, is Free Shipping Day, when hundreds of retailers (722 at last check) are offering free shipping for online purchases. And there’s also something that’s “better than free shipping.”
This Thursday, December 17, is the second annual Free Shipping Day. A recent check showed that 632 retailers were offering free shipping with orders placed that day.
Not one, not two, but three round-ups of retailer deadlines for placing online orders that are guaranteed to arrive by December 24.
