New coupon aggregator site CouponCowgirl.com launched last week and is generating praise for its design, personality and user-friendliness. The site targets popular apparel, consumer electronic and flower and gift brands, serving consumers by compiling online discounts for hundreds of retailers in one location. The site launch was more successful than anticipated. ”The response we’ve received so far from consumers and […]

Iconoculture: E-commerce has always been hailed as 24/7. But how many consumers actually click “buy” at 3 a.m.? Apparently enough to get a handful of merchants to test the midnight madness waters with e-specials from midnight till dawn. Sears, Kohl’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods all offer the early-morning specials to bleary-eyed insomniacs and busy consumers like Mom who prefer browsing […]

Boys to Men Gifts: The male gender is always the hardest to find gifts for, this is why we started Boys to Men Gifts. We are here to help you find creative solutions to the problem of what to buy for all ages of the male gender. Boys To Men Gifts has a unique selection of carefully chosen gifts from […]

TrendCentral: While websites such as SeenON! have touched on the idea of purchasing show-based product, ICE is different in that it essentially turns any footage, ranging from live TV shows to DVR’d movies and even DVDs and VHS (old or new), into an onscreen retailer. Almost everything you see will be available for purchase, e.g., Carrie Bradshaw’s nameplate necklace, Jack […]

The Cool Hunter: Call it the relentless march of capitalism, or the material manifestation of our fickle society, but the high street is in a constant state of flux. Shops change hands at the drop of a hat, and most of the time, it’s not for the better. It is precisely this commercial whimsy that inspired Canadian brothers Ben and […]

Ecommerce-Guide: Every business owner knows it: If you could just talk to prospects one-on-one, you could convert them to customers. Click-to-chat and click-to-call features, of course, have existed for years, but now there’s a new, more viral twist. Starting today you can test out a new service that attempts to combine the best of social networking with Internet-based telephony. In […]

Fast Company: We’re talking about consumers who want to own the same pair of jeans that Meredith wears on “Grey’s Anatomy” or a dress that was seen on Gabrielle’s character on “Desperate Housewives.” The Times dubs this new phenomenon “shopping-enabled entertainment,” a rapidly-growing marketplace now aided by several new websites selling the most popular and fashionable of the as-seen-on-TV products […]

BurlingtonFreePress.com: There are fewer and fewer people asking, “Paper or plastic?” at supermarket checkout aisles throughout the Burlington area and across the country. At Price Chopper’s Burlington store, eight of 19 checkout lanes are equipped with automated “Easy Scan Checkout” machines. Each of the two sets, known as “quads,” has four automated checkout stations and one employee to verify age […]

MarketingVox: Interactive services firm IconNicholson has created a new type of in-store experience that combines social networking and shopping, and has come to be known as Social Retailing, according to fashion.psfk. Demonstrated at the National Retail Federation conference earlier this week, the Social Retailing technology uses an in-store three-paneled “magic mirror” that can send photos or videos of shoppers in […]

E-commerce Guide: A new e-commerce site called Buddy Shopping that lets consumers peruse products online simultaneously with friends launched today with the promise to offer a viable new channel for Web shop owners. Though there are features specific to the site that e-tailers can take advantage of — which we’ll cover after we explain how the site works — most […]