Black Friday 2017 was all about digital sales. American shoppers spent a record $5 billion in 24 hours. That marks a 16.9% increase in dollars spent online compared with Black Friday 2016, according to data from Adobe Digital Insights, which tracks 80% of online spending at America’s 100 largest retail websites. Digital retail giant Amazon said…
A new online grocery store is setting itself apart by ditching fancy labels and complex price tags. Brandless, a San Francisco-based startup from serial entrepreneurs Tina Sharkey and Ido Leffler, sells everything from snacks and meal kits to toothpaste and cleaning supplies at the same price: $3 per item. As the name of the company…
Ikea is a standby for a lot of people. Furniture on the cheap? It’s almost too good to be true, and for a lot of people who don’t live near one of the Swedish superstore’s locations, it is. But that’s about to change, big time. House Beautiful reports that Ikea is planning to sell its…