online shopping

sciencealert | March 26, 2019

If you've ever made a somewhat rash online purchase after a couple of drinks then you're not alone a new survey says nearly 4 in 5 people who consume alcohol have shopped on the web while intoxicated. These purchases add up too, with US$444 the average annual spend for a drunk shopper, and a huge US$48.4 billion the estimated windfall for the retail industry - a huge wad of cash online shops might never see if we clicked those check-out buttons more responsibly. Tech and business n...

retaildive | January 27, 2019

Alibaba’s Taobao online marketplace in China has adopted new technology to improve the shopping experiences of blind and sight-impaired users, including an artificial intelligence-enabled feature that reads text written on webpage images, according to Alibaba's news site Alizila.The report stated that Taobao, which has about 300,000 daily active users who are blind or have partial vision, has been using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology on its shopping pages since late las...

fxstreet | January 16, 2020

Thursday's US economic docket highlights the release of monthly retail sales figures, scheduled at 13:30 GMT. Consensus estimates point to modest growth of 0.3% for December as compared to the previous month's 0.2% increase. Sales excluding automobiles (core retail sales) are seen rising by 0.5% during the reported month as against a dismal 0.1% growth recorded in November. Meanwhile, the closely watched Retail Sales Control Group is expected to rise by 0.4% following a 0.1% increase in ...

businesswire | January 15, 2020

VTS, the commercial real estate industry’s leading leasing and asset management platform, today announced VTS Retail the industry’s only leasing platform designed specifically for the retail sector solving major issues retail landlords have in their leasing process. Unlike any existing offering for retail landlords, VTS Retail transforms the leasing process by enabling retail landlords to significantly reduce the time from prospect to tenant move-in and proactively manage shopping ce...