Bentonville, AR — In an effort to steer customers to its brick-and-mortar stores and lift online profitability, Walmart is starting to charge customers more to buy certain products online, reports The Wall Street Journal. A new merchandising system in some cases lists products on Walmart.com with an online price and a...
Seattle, WA- Amazon has announced to businesses that it will be taking less commission from the sales of non-perishable grocery items priced at $15 or less from 15% to 8% for the next year. While Amazon has declined to comment on their rationale, analysts speculate the reasoning behind their actions...
Hoboken, NJ — Walmart’s Jet.com brand has launched its private label consumer goods line with many of the products organic and sustainable. Called Uniquely J, it carries the tagline “your new favorite everything” and aims to appeal to the upscale millennial living in urban areas. The 50-odd SKUs in the...
The role packaging plays in food, HABA and supplement success can be as important as what’s inside. Change your look and product sales can grow, but a misstep can cost you in lost revenue and damage to your brand. An optimized redesign generates an average 5.5% lift in revenue, according...
Online grocery shopping has skyrocketed for Amazon.com Inc. since the company purchased Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion, Bloomberg reports. One Click Retail, which monitors sales, estimates that within one week, online sales of the Whole Foods private label 365 brand totaled around $500,000, according to Bloomberg. The speed at...
In the category of developments to watch is Brandless, a San Francisco startup that launched in July with $50 million in funding. Brainchild of serial entrepreneurs Tina Sharkey and Ido Leffler, every item in the online store is $3 and many are good-for-you items in non-perishable food, health and beauty,...
Austin, TX – It's clear sailing for Amazon.com to move forward with the purchase of Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. Shareholders approved the deal on Wednesday morning and a few hours later, Bruce Hoffman, acting director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, said the agency had decided...
San Francisco, CA – In an effort to compete with the ever-growing dominance of Amazon.com, Google and Walmart are teaming to let people buy Walmart products through Google Express, the companies announced on Wednesday. “We are trying to help customers shop in ways that they may have never imagined,” said...
