Sustainable shopping: take the ‘litter’ out of glitter
The Conversation AU–19 hours ago
Shopping can be confusing at the best of times, and trying to find environmentally friendly options makes it even more difficult. Welcome to our Sustainable Shoppingseries, in which we ask experts to provide easy eco-friendly guides to purchases big and small. Send us your suggestions for future articles …
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 …
More Retailer Forecasts Will Prevent UPS Peak Shopping Season …
U.S. News & World Report–14 hours ago
More Retailer Forecasts Will Prevent UPS Peak Shopping Season Bottlenecks: CEO … The world’s largest package delivery company delivered a record 762 million packages, exceeding forecasts, during the peak U.S. holiday shopping season which runs from around the Thanksgiving Day holiday in late …
Economic Times
H&M Shares Fall Amid Trouble Adapting to Online Shopping
U.S. News & World Report–Jan. 31, 2018
H&M Shares Fall Amid Trouble Adapting to Online Shopping. Swedish low-cost fashion brand H&M says its … CEO Karl-Johan Persson said that the digitalization of shopping “is driving the need to transform and re-think faster and faster.” He said the group’s performance was “clearly below our …
Where To Buy Genderless Clothing? Shopping App RIGit Makes It …
Elite Daily–Jan. 18, 2018
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 …
What you need to know about compulsive shopping — the modern …
The Conversation UK–Jan. 29, 2018
Peter Schofield does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has … This type of shopping is a behavioural addiction characterised by a reduced capacity for self control and a lower resistance to external triggers.
Your online shopping is impeding Canada’s emissions targets
The Weather Network–Jan. 13, 2018
Saturday, January 20, 2018, 5:26 PM – To battle climate change, 171 nations, including Canada, ratified the Paris Agreement in 2015. This agreement obligates Canada to reduce greenhouse gas emissions dramatically — by as much as 80 per cent below 2005 levels by 2050. If we are to succeed, we’ll need to introduce …
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 …
EBay Gives Optimistic Sales Forecast Buoyed by Jump in Buyers
Bloomberg–Jan. 31, 2018
The online marketplace gave an optimistic revenue forecast for revenue for the current quarter, boosting investor confidence in the company’s efforts to generate more traffic on the site when customers have abundant ways to shop on the web. Gross merchandise volume, a key metric, rose 10 percent to …
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 …
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