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When it comes to categories of products sold, apparel & accessories is the biggest kid on the Internet retailing block.
E-retailers in this category account for 80 of the top 500 retail web sites, according to the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. The category, however, also has one of the biggest hurdles on the web: merchandise that shoppers really like to feel, hold and try on, actions impossible to achieve via an Internet connection. But that`s not stopping the apparel & accessories e-retailers named to the Hot 100 from using web tools and technologies to come as close as possible to helping shoppers "feel" merchandise and have an online experience similar to one they would have in a store.
December 2008 - Apparel & Accessories. The e-commerce sites featured in the apparel & accessories category of this year’s Hot 100 are as distinctive as, well, individual clothing buyers.
And that’s a big part of what makes them successful. These are certainly not cookie-cutter sites. Put the retail sites of Anthropologie and Wet Seal up next to one another and the difference is night and day. The first sells with sophistication-employing luxurious images, a muted background conveying a dreamy feel and advanced technology such as a downloadable widget that spotlights the featured product of the day. - Hip-Hop Shop. If there were a contest to pick the edgiest retailer in the Internet Retailer Top 500, Boston-based Karmaloop LLC would surely win.
Catalogers - New Page For boo.com. Sportswear and streetwear online retailer boo.com will publish a spring/summer 2000 season catalog, called the "look book," which it claims marks the first time a "pure-play" apparel e-tailer has used an offline catalog in the U.S. to draw attention to online products.
The catalog, which showcases 33 products on 44 color pages, will be printed in seven languages, says the New York City-based firm. The book will be distributed in 15 countries through the mail to consumers, and at key fashion and Internet industry events. Internet Retailer - Search Results for streetwear. / Press Release Avatar New York, Award-Winning Web Design and Technology Firm awarded JimmyJazz.com’s front-end technology and design project for Full-Feature Urban Fashion Site BROOKLYN, NY - [February 18, 2009] - For the latest in hip-hop and urban trends, people look to Jimmy Jazz for the hottest sneakers, clean-lined styles, and most up-to-date street fashions.
Jimmy Jazz offers the name brands that women, men and kids shop and now award-winning web design... Posted 02/18/2009. Decide.com: Online Shopping for TVs, Computers, Cameras & Electronics. E-Commerce Sales Are Booming, Thanks to Discounts and Free Shipping. Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesAn Amazon fulfillment center.
Online, at least, shoppers are spending money. Lots of it. People have spent $18.7 billion on e-commerce sites so far this holiday shopping season, 15 percent more than last year during the corresponding days, according to comScore. They spent $6 billion the week that ended Dec. 2, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and spent more than $1 billion on three separate days that week, after breaking the billion-dollar mark for the first time on Cyber Monday last year. But retailers are paying for the surge in spending by offering discounts and free shipping. Top 500 - E-commerce sales jump 16% in 2011. U.S. e-commerce sales totaled $194.3 billion in 2011, up 16.1% from $167.3 billion in 2010, according to an estimate released today by the U.S.
Commerce Department. The estimate, not adjusted for seasonality, show that e-commerce is taking a bigger portion of overall retail sales in the United States. 4.6% of total retail spending took place online during 2011, up from 4.3% in 2010, according to the Commerce Department. Record Holiday 2011 Ecommerce Sales Impact by Online Marketing Technology. Philadelphia, PA (January 05, 2012)According to ComScore, online spending reached a record $35.3 billion this holiday season, a 15% increase over last year.
At the heart of this surge in online sales lies Philadelphia-based Monetate, a leading provider of online marketing technology, which announced that its platform drove roughly 20 percent, or $168 million of the record-setting $816 million in Black Friday online sales. As ecommerce companies increasingly look for ways to increase customer engagement and sales on their websites in a highly competitive online shopping environment, technology providers like Monetate play an essential role in helping to move the needle on sales. The significant adoption of Monetate’s platform signals the importance online retailers place on delivering a more engaging and relevant shopping experience to customers in ways that measurably impact website ROI.
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