sears mobile commerce Archives

M-commerce feature at Sears allows for unique returns and exchanges policy

09/24/201409/22/2014 John Montgallo

Sears mobile commerce website performance

The retailer is now giving consumers the ability to use their smartphones to conduct these transactions from their cars. While returns and exchanges are typically considered to be the average part of a daily operation for most retailers, Sears has decided to try to use m-commerce in order to improve the convenience of the experience for its own customers. It has just announced the expansion of a service that is targeted toward its mobile shoppers. This will allow those shoppers to be able to use an m-commerce tool to be…

Mobile commerce performance from Sears is super fast

04/20/201304/18/2013 Julie Campbell

The department store has redesigned its site for smartphones and has achieved amazing speeds. Sears has made a considerable mobile commerce performance achievement, according to Keynote Systems, which ranked the department store retailer’s smartphone friendly website in the first position among all 30 companies that are included in its index. The company was able to shoot its position upward from having been eleventh to the top spot. The Sears website was given this coveted rank on the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index, after it made considerable changes to its website…

M-commerce at Sears held back by Presidents Day banner

02/26/201302/25/2013 John Montgallo

Keynote Systems identified a slowing on the mobile optimized site due to the holiday ad. The sears m-commerce website added an add to its home page in order to advertise a Presidents Day sale, but according to Keynote, it only managed to decrease the site’s performance by adding a full second to the load time. When Sears changed its design, the company’s performance dropped considerably in the ranks. According to data from the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index for the week that finished on February 17, Sears managed to do…

Mobile commerce index performance at Barnes & Noble tops the rest

02/16/201302/14/2013 Stephanie Beck

However, the same ranking system showed that Sears is struggling where the bookstore excelled. Among all of the 30 retailers that are ranked on the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index, it was Barnes & Noble that led the rest, during the week that ended on February 10. The website of the retailer had an average load time that was a super fast 4.80 seconds. Furthermore, the smartphone friendly website was not only able to load quickly, but it did so successfully 99.78 percent of the time. This, according to the…

Mobile commerce app to be used year round by Sears

11/02/201211/02/2012 John Montgallo

The application had previously been used on a seasonal basis to drive sales. As Sears releases the 60th edition of its Wish Book catalog it is also releasing it in a mobile commerce format for iPads for the second year in a row. The retailer’s catalog has become a holiday tradition for many shoppers. Sears is attempting to make certain that the catalog maintains its importance and popularity for the holiday shopping experience by making improvements that will help it to keep up with the latest technologies and consumer expectations.…