Cyber Monday m-commerce is hot but not enough to kill desktop

Cyber Monday m-commerce

Brick and mortar shopping as well as laptop based purchases are still holding strong in the U.S. With Cyber Monday m-commerce growing at a tremendous rate each year, many keep expecting in-store shopping and desktop to fall off the map. However, Black Friday and its in-person purchasing appears to be just as relevant as ever before. Moreover, laptop and desktop based shopping are still going strong. If mobile commerce is as strong as they say, shouldn’t Black Friday have been replaced by Cyber Monday? Many shoppers have had enough of…

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Holiday mobile shopping habits will stand out this year

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As has been the case over the last few years, this should be a record breaker for m-commerce. The most important time of the year for retailers is approaching and mobile shopping habits will be playing a large role. In fact, it is expected that this holiday season will represent another time in which records will be broken across the board. Pre-holiday study and forecast results are already being issued by a number of analytics firms. The goal is to best understand what are likely to be the mobile shopping…

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Mobile shopping is expected to be big on Thanksgiving

Adobe News mobile shopping

Adobe Digital Index data has shown that this will be the second year in a row that m-commerce will rise sharply. Aside from getting together with family and stuffing themselves full of an unimaginable amount of turkey, this Thanksgiving will also be a time when many Americans turn to mobile shopping to get themselves into the holiday shopping mood. The retail craving has always been strong on this holiday, and online browsing and buying is moving to smartphones. According to the Adobe Digital Index, Thanksgiving this year is expected to…

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IBM releases mobile shopping forecast for the holiday season

IBM mobile shopping

Just as the most important time of the year for retail sales gets started major predictions are made about its successes. Retailers, marketers and consumers, themselves, are now knee-deep in offline, online, and mobile shopping as the holiday rush has started, and IBM has released its predictions with the way that this year’s sales are headed. The five day period that started on Thanksgiving is a make or break weekend for most retailers. At the beginning of it all, IBM predicted that there would be a growth in online sales…

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Mobile commerce may win big during the holiday season

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comScore report predicts spike in online retail spending this year Online retail spending is expected to spike more during this year’s holiday season than it did last year, according to a report from comScore. The report predicts that mobile consumers will flock to online retail sites in order to avoid large crowds at stores and purchase the products they are interested in more conveniently. Consumers are becoming more confident in the mobile commerce services that retailers have to offer and are likely to be using these services more regularly in…

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