Sustainable shopping: want to eat healthy? Try an eco-friendly diet
The Conversation AU–17 hours ago
… WH Gladstones Population and Environment Fund. Some research findings reported in this article emerged from the funded research but the views expressed are solely those of the author. … towards a more environmentally sustainable diet. It starts with the food items you put in your shopping basket.
Where To Buy Genderless Clothing? Shopping App RIGit Makes It …
Elite Daily–13 hours ago
Mellas has personally experienced uncomfortable situations while shopping, either feeling awkward in the men’s department or being mistaken for a man in the women’s section. These incidents are part of what fueled her ideas for RIGit. “We believe that any article of clothing should be worn by anyone that …
Instacart Acquires Coupon and Voice-Shopping Startup Unata
Bloomberg–Jan. 16, 2018
Instacart Inc. said it agreed to acquire Toronto-based startup Unata Inc., giving the grocery-delivery company new kinds of e-commerce tools and a path to expand in Canada. The deal totals about $65 million, according to two people familiar with the matter, and signals where Instacart is headed in its battle …
What Online Retailers Hate About Holiday Shopping
Bloomberg–Dec. 22, 2017
According to a 2016 UPS survey on online retail customers, 60 percent now consider free shipping an essential element of the shopping experience. As of 2015, roughly half of all online retailers, including Amazon, had free-return policies. The expense goes well beyond free shipping. Once a product is …
Sears died because we’re too lazy to go shopping
CFJC Today Kamloops–Jan. 15, 2018
More vacancy signs are likely to go up in shopping malls, and the malls themselves face challenges. … We’re becoming a nation of sloths, too damn indolent and indifferent to get off the couch — whether it be to go shopping or to the voting booth. … Why do you keep writing articles about the retail world?
Washington Post
Amazon Flexes Its Muscles With Holiday-Shopping Dominance
Bloomberg–Jan. 8, 2018
Amazon.com Inc. took the biggest slice of the online U.S. holiday-shopping pie last year among a four-retailer peer group tracked by New York-based Earnest Research. The purveyor of everything under the sun maintained its 89 percent share of spending in the five-week period beginning on Thanksgiving …
WPXI Pittsburgh
UK Holiday Spending Squeezed by Brexit-Related Inflation
U.S. News & World Report–1 hour ago
The Office for National Statistics said retail sales, including fuel, fell by 1.5 percent in December from the month before, double what most economists were predicting. Though the fall was partly related to the fact that much of the non-food Christmas-related shopping has shifted to November with the rise of …
Amazon Has a Plan to Become Profitable. It’s Called Advertising
Bloomberg–Jan. 18, 2018
For years, Amazon kept advertising on the site subtle for fear of alienating shopperswho had become used to choosing what to buy based largely on customer reviews and price. Amazon has been slowly giving more prominent placement to sponsored products in search results, forcing brands to buy ads to …
How your online shopping is impeding Canada’s emissions targets
The Conversation CA–Jan. 11, 2018
Online shopping has contributed to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from diesel-burning transport trucks. (Shutterstock). Heavy duty transport — particularly diesel-burning transport trucks — is a different story. Government data show that the single fastest-growing source of emissions in Canada …
Convenience Stores Are Getting Squeezed by Fast Food and Dollar …
Bloomberg–Jan. 18, 2018
Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg. The U.S. convenience store industry is facing an inconvenient truth: Americans are changing the way they shop for snacks and drinks. … After a recent shopping spree by market leaders Couche-Tard and Seven & I Holdings Co.’s 7-Eleven Inc., supermarket giant …
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