January 3, 2012 By the ZippyCart Content Team The 2011 holiday shopping season is officially over and retailers have shifted their focus to the heaps of holiday gift returns coming in as we begin the New Year. Holiday returns are up 8% this year from the same time last year, which is due to more [...]

December 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A new study shows more holiday shoppers are bound to make last minute purchases this year. A recent survey by BIGresearch found that by the second week of December the majority of shoppers had completed less than 50% of their holiday shopping. According to the study, 37 [...]

December 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Many small brick and mortar retailers around the country were less than pleased with Amazon’s promotion of their new Price Check mobile application this past weekend. On Saturday (12/10), Amazon offered customers a 5% discount up to $5 for using the new application. The application, called Price [...]

December 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Walmart, one of the highest grossing retailers on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday, last week launched a holiday shopping gift-guide application on Facebook called Shopycat. Created by @WalmartLabs, Walmart’s tech shop in the Silicon Valley, the app is designed to help users with often difficult task [...]

November 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It’s still days before notorious Black Friday, but a series of e-tailers have already launched unbeatable deals. Amazon.com along with Walmart, Toys “R” Us, Sears, Target, and eBay are currently hosting Black Friday deals on their online stores- all of which started 4 days early! Featured deals [...]

November 21, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Southwest Airlines has launched Rapid Rewards Shopping, a new online program through which loyalty members can earn points by redeeming special offers from hundreds of online retailers. The launch of Southwest’s Rapid Rewards Shopping program marks the first [...]

October 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Earlier this month Barnes & Noble began pulling 100 DC graphic novel titles from shelves in its brick-and-mortar stores. The decision came after DC Entertainment made an exclusive digital deal with ecommerce solution Amazon to supply graphic novels for the new Kindle Fire. DC fans can still [...]

October 24, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Looking for that perfect holiday gift but can’t afford the full retail price? Want to know what top designers, tech giants and celebrities are dreaming of this year? Or maybe you need to reward yourself–since about 60 percent of shoppers admit they will buy themselves a gift [...]

October 13, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team L2 recently released its third annual Digital IQ Index for fashion, which ranks the digital competence of 49 prestigious fashion brands. The index ranks the brands based on the effectiveness of their digital strategies across four categories: site, digital marketing, social media, and mobile. Brands were given [...]

October 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team StyleOwner is a new site that allows fashion bloggers to create a virtual storefront and sell products from partner retail stores. Fashionistas who dream of opening their own store can become part of the virtual mall that StyleOwner creates and start selling items from more than 2,000 [...]

September 21, 2010 By the ZippyCart Content Team SailThru, a company whose service allows ecommerce solutions and businesses to send relevant and personalized email content to their customers, has received a new round of venture capital funding totaling $8 million. The new investment, led by RRE Ventures, qualifies as Round A funding for SailThru, which [...]