/ E-Retailers

Procter & Gamble takes a step forward in online retailing

Procter & Gamble is teaming up with PFSweb to launch PGeStore.com this spring. The site will debut with about 700 products representing about 20 popular brands such as Tide, Pampers and Gillette.

Posted 01/15/2010Zak StamborPost a comment

Related Searches:Pgestore | Pfsweb

/ Technology

How a class project quickly turned into a deal-of-the-day e-retail site

It began as a student project at Northern Illinois University. With the help of a wholesaler of overstock goods and online retailing technology vendors, UWantSavings.com came to life in a few months, and with an upfront investment of just $100,000.

Posted 12/02/2008Katie DeatschPost a comment

Related Searches:Woot

/ Technology

Scholastic.com and QVC.com were tops in response time for October

In October, Scholastic.com generated a high broadband Internet backbone response time of 1.09 seconds to lead all top 50 e-retailers, according to Gomez. Overall the 50 largest retail web sites had an average backbone response time of 2.43 seconds.

Posted 11/12/2008Bill BriggsPost a comment

Related Searches:Costco Liquidation

/ E-Retailers

Great American buys Tower Records for liquidation

Great American Group, a retail liquidation firm, last weekend began the liquidation process and going-out-of-business sales for Tower Records, also known as MTS Inc. Tower filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August.

Posted 10/09/2006Kurt PetersPost a comment

/ Technology

30% of retail suppliers don’t know where to begin with RFID, study says

When asked where they would go for help in launching an RFID program, 30% of retail suppliers said “I don’t know,” says analyst Tom Ryan, author of a new Aberdeen Group report.

Posted 04/13/2004Kurt PetersPost a comment

WalMart.com enters the digital music market

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s WalMart.com today launched a test of a digital music service that offers music downloads at 88 cents per song, about 11% less than the 99 cents charged by most existing services.

Posted 12/18/2003Kurt PetersPost a comment

/ Technology

WalMart.com projects 60% growth in holiday sales

Wal-Mart Stores expects sales at its WalMart.com during this year’s holiday shopping season to rise 60% over last year’s holiday season, the company says. Comparable store sales are expected to rise 3-5%.

Posted 11/14/2003Kurt PetersPost a comment

Consumers will buy returned merchandise at online auctions, ReturnBuy says

ReturnBuy, which is partly owned by eBay, sells 80% of the returned merchandise it processes at online auctions.

Posted 11/15/2001Kurt PetersPost a comment