A large number of holiday shoppers still prefer on-location shopping. BAL HARBOUR SHOPS The holiday season is enormous, particularly for shoppers in the United States, and it often accounts for as much as 30% of annual sales for some retailers. And although 55% of shopping will take place online, a great number of people still enjoy … Read More →
Sophie Townley Madeleine Sophie Townley, better known by her penname Sophie Kinsella, has returned this season with Christmas Shopaholic, the tenth novel of her hugely successful Shopaholic series. It explores the themes of ethical consumerism and responsible shopping. Sophie shares with Sucheta Dasgupta how the activity of shopping has changed in the West over the … Read More →
We will look back on 2019 and call it the golden age of shopping. Once we get past Q4 and are into 2020, I envision a host of changes coming from Google that is going to change the paid search and shopping game forever. We are already seeing Google decide that close variant match should be the … Read More →
In the US, nearly 83 per cent of the outlets are convenience stores that dispense about 80 per cent of the total fuel sold. The traditional oil companies own about 13 per cent of the retail outlets selling only 6.2 per cent of the fuel.(Shutterstock) AddThis Sharing Buttons The convenience of buying petrol and diesel … Read More →
At a time when the US is bleeding red from the recent mass shootings in Texas that left over 30 people dead, Google is showing shopping results for 100-bullet magazines, despite policies against gun ads. A Google search for “.223 100rd” (short for round) displays sponsored results on the right side of the page, with more links … Read More →
There’s been a huge amount of publicity generated by Amazon Prime Day (publicity that, in all honesty, The Verge has contributed to, covering both Prime Day Deals and Prime Day boycotts). However, there are obviously other places to buy from out there in the wilds of the web. We took a quick poll of The Verge’s staff, and came up with … Read More →
Two people were shot and two others hurt on Tuesday when at least one gunman opened fire at a mall in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno before apparently fleeing on a nearby train, police said. Two people were taken to San Francisco General Hospital with gunshot wounds to their lower bodies in stable … Read More →