Don Davis
Editor At Large at Digital Commerce 360
Editor at large at Digital Commerce 360. Formerly chief editor of DC360 predecessor Internet Retailer and group editor, SourceMedia. NYC native and Yale grad.
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1 day ago |
ijr.com | Don Davis
Google’s search engine empire could face a serious reckoning as the Justice Department’s landmark antitrust case entered its remedies phase Monday, handing a federal judge the power to dismantle the tech behemoth’s illegal monopoly over how users discover information online.
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Nov 5, 2024 |
digitalcommerce360.com | Don Davis
Web-only retailers are responsible for the majority of the Top 50 web sales to North America. However, the cohort is made up of just seven retailers. Those retailers’ dominance shrank slightly last year. At the close of 2023, they were down to 51.1% of the Top 50’s North American web sales from 52.2% the previous year. Those conclusions emerge from a first-ever Digital Commerce 360 analysis of the 50 most popular retail sites in terms of web sales to North American consumers.
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Oct 22, 2024 |
digitalcommerce360.com | Don Davis
Amazon.com Inc. dominates North American online retail in 2024, capturing more than 39% of the dollars spent online last year by consumers in the United States, Canada and Mexico, data shows. But it faces significant challenges from store-based retailers selling online, as well as marketplaces. In addition, it must contend with two fast-growing Chinese newcomers to the market, Temu and Shein.
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Jul 2, 2024 |
digitalcommerce360.com | Don Davis
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, when many stores closed and consumers shifted their shopping to websites, more than a few observers predicted the pandemic would accelerate growth in online sales and that Amazon.com Inc. would be the big winner from this development. Now that the dust has settled, we can say that neither proved to be true.
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Nov 25, 2023 |
digitalcommerce360.com | Don Davis |Rob Garf
Online sales boomed on Black Friday, reaching a record $9.8 billion, a 7.5% increase from the Friday after Thanksgiving last year, according to Adobe Analytics. Deep discounts, particularly in categories like electronics, smart watches and televisions, helped fuel sales, along with lower online prices overall heading into the holiday season. Adobe says prices on retail sites in October were 6% lower than a year earlier.
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Contrary to popular belief, #Amazon was not the big #ecommerce winner during the pandemic. Find out which important group of retail competitors grew the fastest online during Covid in this analysis of newly released Top 1000 data. https://t.co/5KJPxW4hro
No surprises in NRF's annual holiday retail sales forecast today: total sales will grow by 3-4%, online by 7-9%. That suggests 60+% of growth will be online and store sales will grow only by about 2%. https://t.co/PrBrTVar0w
Looking ahead to #ecommerce tech trends for 2024, #forrester predicts more smaller, targeted tech projects and that #GenerativeAI will only be successful for a minority of companies. https://t.co/8nVrHxyDND