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Amazon.com, Inc. revealed the Holiday Toy List, where customers can find this season’s hottest toys, video games, sporting goods, electronics, movies and more.
The Holiday Toy List features innovative search tools that allow customers to quickly narrow and expand search results simultaneously by “bestselling” or “average customer review,” then filter by age, gender, category, price and [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Target Corp’s (TGT.N) online division said on Monday it cut the price of highly anticipated hardcover books to $8.99, responding to steep price cuts implemented last week by Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and Walmart.com.
Target.com said it is offering the books, including “Breathless” by Dean Koontz and “Ford County” by John Grisham, [...]
Time to get out your Calendars and fill in the important online shopping dates for the rest of this 4th Quarter. These dates will help you anticipate your sales and when sales are going to slow back down at the end of the season. The good news is that the shopping season is effectively 28 [...]
NEW YORK — An online book special offered by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is turning into a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com.
Wal-Mart got things started Thursday, offering $10 prices on such upcoming hardcover releases as Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” and John Grisham’s “Ford County,” a cut of 60 percent or more from the regular cost. Wal-Mart [...]
Amazon.com sellers are concerned that the marketplace is scaring off buyers of vintage, rare and collectible items due to a new price-warning feature. When an item’s price is over list-price, Amazon displays a yellow warning sign alerting shoppers with a notation of how much above list price it is.
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You may be thinking that ’stocking stuffers’ really can’t work in a place like Amazon.com. On the contrary, they will help buy increasing your average transaction, as well as be sales you wouldn’t have picked up otherwise.
Think of it this way: There are millions of product listings on Amazon.com. During the holiday season, people unfamiliar [...]
This holiday shopping season will involve your having to market products more smartly than you ever have before. Customers will not only be looking for discounts from their Amazon Seller, they will also be looking for sets or ‘bundles’ to reduce their number of purchases.
These days, customers are well aware of the time and expense [...]
Discounting will be key to winning the holiday shopping season this year.
With unemployment running nearly 10% this year, spending will be very tight and shoppers will be looking for bargains from the onset.
Traditionally, Merchants on Amazon.com would wait just as their brick-and mortar brethren would do and only start discounting when they felt traffic to [...]
October first of every year feels like crossing the Rubicon for Merchants preparing for holiday sales. On this day it’s officially the Fourth Quarter and for most businesses the next 92 days will make-or-break their whole year.
This year promises to be especially harrowing. Several professional retail groups who customarily monitor sales and sales trends have [...]
The holiday season without toys is like Santa without his sleigh. Toys are a staple of childhood holiday memories and the tangible excitement of the season’s whimsical magic. Celebrating this holiday magic, a recent survey commissioned by eBay found that board games like Monopoly and checkers top the list of all-time favorite holiday toys, beating [...]
