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Deliv to power same-day grocery delivery for Walmart in San Jose
Walmart is further expanding into same-day delivery with the help of its existing delivery partner, Deliv. The companies today announced they will now be working together to power same-day grocery delivery in the San Jose area, where users will b…
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Today’s Stories This Black Friday could be the biggest ever for mobile shopping Amazon blames the postal service for Amazon Fresh delivery issues Scientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby Credits Written by: Sarah Buhr Hosted by: Sarah Buhr Filmed by: Joe Zolnoski Edited by: John Murillo Notes: Tito’s continues his journey out in the Outback this week so… Read More
Lord & Taylor will start selling on Walmart.com
Wal-Mart and Hudson’s Bay-owned department store Lord & Taylor just announced an interesting partnership – Lord & Taylor will start selling its catalogue of high-end fashion merchandise on Walmart.com this Spring.
Of course this deal doesn’t mean that you’ll see designer pants on the same page as $19.97 Wranglers. Instead, Lord & Taylor will have its own… Read More
7 in 10 people in Southeast Asia scrambled to buy on ‘Singles’ Day’ via their mobiles
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If you hadn’t heard, Saturday’s Singles’ Day sale in China absolutely smashed last year’s already phenomenal record, bringing in $25 billion in a day on a single shopping site — Alibaba Taobao.
Over in Southeast Asia, a quieter storm is brewing, but it’s an important indicator of a market that’s rapidly embracing ecommerce.
Lazada — incidentally majority owned by Alibaba — is of the more popular ecommerce sites that sells across the region comprising countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.
Saturday’s sale netted Lazada a pretty respectable $123 million in sales, or 6.5 million items, nearly double last year’s performance. Read more…
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Instagram is, for many, a fantasy world. As we scroll through, the people that surround us are skinny, made up, denizens of exotic locations and, above all, better-dressed than we are.
Kim Kardashian’s new app, Screenshop, aims to help Instagra…
Best Buy’s Black Friday deals are here, so plan your holiday accordingly
Best Buy might not have the same clout as e-retailers like Amazon, but the brick and mortar holdout still brings the deals when it comes time for the biggest shopping event of the year: Black Friday.
The retailer just released its 2017 Black Fr…
Alexa gets its first celeb voice with Oprah, but it’s just a holiday promo
Alexa is getting its first celebrity voice, and it’s Oprah. Before you get too excited, Oprah won’t respond to your day-to-day questions, as Alexa does – instead, the addition of Oprah’s voice is part of a holiday shopping promotion between Oprah’s O magazine and Amazon, where Oprah will help Alexa customers shop her “Favorite Things.”
O, The Oprah… Read More
Alexa gets its first celeb voice with Oprah, but it’s just a holiday promo
Alexa is getting its first celebrity voice, and it’s Oprah. Before you get too excited, Oprah won’t respond to your day-to-day questions, as Alexa does – instead, the addition of Oprah’s voice is part of a holiday shopping promotion between Oprah’s O magazine and Amazon, where Oprah will help Alexa customers shop her “Favorite Things.”
O, The Oprah… Read More
Amazon’s app will use AR to convince you to buy all the things
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Amazon wants to give you even more reason to buy everything you could possibly want online just in time for the holiday season — so the e-retail behemoth is branching out into another state of reality.
The company just announced a new augmented reality (AR) functionality for the Amazon App that will give shoppers a chance to envision real-world products around their homes before deciding to buy them.
Want to see how that fancy looking, Prime-eligible coffee table fits in your living room? Just pull up the Amazon app, enable the AR camera, and boom: You can see exactly how it would fit, there on your phone in front of you. Read more…
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Target store staff can now create online orders for customers when local merchandise is unavailable
Amazon and Walmart aren’t the only major U.S. retailers looking to better merge online with brick-and-mortar operations. Today, Target announced a new app called “myCheckout” for its store staff that will allow them to process online transactions on the customer’s behalf, including taking payments, right from the store’s floor when merchandise is unavailable… Read More
Target store staff can now create online orders for customers when local merchandise is unavailable
Amazon and Walmart aren’t the only major U.S. retailers looking to better merge online with brick-and-mortar operations. Today, Target announced a new app called “myCheckout” for its store staff that will allow them to process online transactions on the customer’s behalf, including taking payments, right from the store’s floor when merchandise is unavailable… Read More