August 2010 Retail Comp / Same Store Sales Numbers
Retail comp sales results are out for August and they are generally good. Several retailers beat analyst estimates with positive months from Zumiez, Limited Brands, and Abercrombie & Fitch. Hot...
View ArticleExpress Lane for 9/17/2010
Quick links for today: Econsultancy posted an article this week called Why it’s time to pay attention to HTML5. Unfortunately, while attempting to explain HTML5 and what it means for web site owners,...
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Retail sales are in for September and, for the most part, it seems like retailers saw positive traction for the month. Zumiez and Abercrombie and Fitch saw real nice gains for the most, positing a 17%...
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A Study of E-Commerce Size Charts
I have a fascination with the less attractive areas of e-commerce stores. Everyone wants to work on the product detail page or the checkout, those are the nuts and bolts of stores. But information...
View ArticleExpress Lane: Quick Links for 10/18/2010
Let’s start off the week with some stories, articles, and resources that have been catching my eye lately: First, this weekend saw the rise in rumors around a possible Groupon acquisition by Yahoo. The...
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Overstock.com Adds GoodRelations + RDFa to all Product Pages (and why other...
Last week, Overstock.com added GoodRelations rich meta-data in RDFa to all of their product pages. If you are unfamiliar with GoodRelations, they give a better intro/overview than I can, on their own...
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Nice Out of Stock Image, Costco
Interesting out of stock image from the Costco store. Nice pallet: I am not quite sure why Costco decides to turn their product images off on out of stock products, but I see this same image on a few...
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Over 50% Of Top E-Commerce Stores are running jQuery
Here’s what I do for fun: I wrote a script to parse the content of websites and tell me if the site is running one of the major Javascript libraries (jQuery, Dojo, Prototype, Mootools, or YUI). The...
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A Study of 21 E-Commerce "View Your Gift Card Balance" Forms
I found gift cards from last Christmas- or maybe it was the Christmas before- I forget. Time to look up the balances and spend some money online. But this simple task- looking up the balance of my gift...
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21 E-Commerce Store Homepages That Are Ready For Spring
As the northern hemisphere rolls into Spring and we look forward to Summer, I thought that I would do a survey of e-commerce homepages to see who has ditched the winter blues for the greens of Spring....
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