US Mobile Commerce

Research finds Android mobile shopping apps lack security

05/24/201805/23/2018 Amanda Giasson

Android Mobile Shopping Apps - Man on Smartphone

Android users beware – US mobile commerce apps aren’t as safe as you think Recent security testing conducted by mobile security companies Appknox and SEWORKS reveals an estimated 40 of the top 50 Android mobile shopping apps in the United States have high-level vulnerabilities. The apps were tested across 34 different security testing categories. Almost all apps are vulnerable to hackers. The “Security Status in m-Commerce” report from Appknox and SEWORKS found that over 84% of the shopping apps tested had a minimum of three high-level security vulnerabilities. What’s more,…

Walmart scan-and-go shopping ended as customers disinterested in in-store m-commerce

05/15/201805/14/2018 Jorge Gonzalez

Walmart scan-and-go - Mobile Commerce - mobile shopping

The retailer has shut down the program as shoppers failed to embrace the mobile tech based experience. The Walmart scan-and-go shopping has been abandoned by the retailer at its U.S. stores. Customers simply did not embrace the technology. It was designed to help them to save time in-store by skipping the checkout through the use of mobile commerce. The concept was supposed to let people use m-commerce tech to scan their own items and pay. Walmart scan-and-go was designed to let people use their smartphones to scan item barcodes as…

Best Buy mobile stores will all close by the end of May

03/05/201803/04/2018 L. Green

Best Buy mobile stores - Image of Best Buy Store

The electronics retailer has decided to shut down all 250 of its American mobile shops. Best Buy mobile stores will be shutting down as of May 31, said the electronics retail giant. The company plans to close down all the 250 locations in the United States. This was not much of a shocking revelation to consumers who were used to seeing the tiny shops. Many of the Best Buy mobile stores are located in shopping malls. For shoppers who saw them regularly, the news may sound as though it is…

Valentine’s Day mobile sales rose 9 percent this year

02/19/201802/17/2018 Jesse Collins

The day showed considerable growth when compared to the figures from the same time in 2017. This year, the Valentine’s Day mobile sales experienced sizeable growth over the figures from last year. It looks as though shoppers are looking to their smartphones on an increasing basis when it comes to making purchase for the occasion, said data from the Qubit marketing personalization company. Conversions recorded on Valentine’s Day were recorded to be 37.94 percent over mobile channels. That said, as successful as the Valentine’s Day mobile sales were, desktop still…

Mobile shopping cart abandonment greatly caused by a sense of “meh”

02/06/201802/03/2018 Stephanie Beck

A recent study showed that a leading cause of leaving without purchasing is “emotional ambivalence.” Browsing for products over various apps continues to be a growing pastime, but mobile shopping cart abandonment numbers remain as high as they ever were. According to the results of a recent study, the reason people are filling their carts and then leaving them without making a purchase has to do with “emotional ambivalence.” While certain factors encourage people to add items to their carts, they often stop at that point. The research indicated that…

Americans look to mobile shopping research first, then head to stores

01/11/201801/10/2018 L. Green

New research shows that most U.S. consumers will check out a product online before buying in person. Last year, the American e-commerce market watched mobile shopping research take off before consumers were even getting in their cars to visit stores. In fact 88 percent of consumers were using the internet to read up on products before making an in-store purchase. During the holiday season, many people who had planned to shop online headed to brick and mortar shops. In the United States, holiday shoppers used online and mobile shopping research…

Amazon Digital Day will return this year on December 29

12/21/201712/18/2017 John Montgallo

Amazon Digital Deals - On Apple Iphone 6 Device Display

This day of massive sales for downloadable products was a hit last year and is expected to be bigger this year. Shoppers looking for great deals on games, apps, movies, music, ebooks and other downloadables will be happy to hear Amazon Digital Day is coming back again this year. December 29th is going to be the equivalent to Prime Day, only for products that don’t need to be physically shipped. This massive post-holiday sale comes with all the savings and none of the line ups from shopping in store. The…

Mobile commerce shopping is central to consumer retail experience

12/19/201712/16/2017 Jesse Collins

App Annie report shows m-commerce is a vital step along the customer purchasing journey. The retail industry has reached the point that it isn’t surprising to hear that mobile commerce shopping plays an important role. That said, according to App Annie, smartphone shopping is playing a central and critical role along the complete retail journey. American retailers are no longer able to think of m-commerce as simply an optional luxury. The report shows that the mobile commerce shopping trend has made a mobile strategy a necessity for retailers that want…

In app transactions see 64 percent growth rate this year

12/08/201712/06/2017 Jennifer Goula

Purchases through mobile applications continued to see a significant rise in traction throughout 2017. It doesn’t come as much of a shock to know that in app transactions are making considerable gains, but the rate at which that growth is occurring is raising eyebrows. The holiday shopping season has been particularly effective in spiking m-commerce use. Over one in three American purchases over the Thanksgiving weekend occurred over mobile devices. In app transactions are playing a rapidly increasing role in driving mobile commerce growth in the United States as well…

Black Friday sees lower online retail card fraud figures

12/04/201712/02/2017 Jennifer Goula

Mobile security payments online retail card

E-commerce and mobile security held strong to protect online retailers and consumers this year. Both consumers and retailers were breathing more easily on Black Friday as online retail card fraud instances decreased this year over previous years. This represents the first time in several years that there was a drop, not an increase in e- and m-commerce card fraud. The fraudulent online retail card figures didn’t just fall slightly. Instead, it plummeted to 42 percent over the holiday weekend and most important shopping weekend of the year (November 24 through…

Shopify Black Friday sales break records at $1 million per minute

11/28/201711/25/2017 Jesse Collins

Black friday sales mobile commerce optimized

At the peak of the day, merchants selling over this multi-channel commerce platform broke their previous records. Shopify has released its initial Black Friday sales figures, revealing that it has broken all its previous records. The platform, which is currently used by more than 500,000 merchants, cumulatively topped all their previous records. Last year’s sales peak had been $555,716 per minute and was left behind by this year’s $1,000,000 per minute. This most recent Black Friday sales success was interpreted by Shopify as a demonstration of the importance of that…