Retail-Blog

Each year, Internet Retailer, the leading information provider for the e-retailing industry, looks at the Top 500 online retailers to provide a logical ranking for America's largest e-retailers based on their annual sales on the web. The all new Top 500 Guide contains the very latest competitive data on the leaders of web-based retailing who account for nearly two-thirds of $135-billion e-retailing industry in the U.S.

Click on the link below to read datapoint excerpts from the new research.

Internet Retailer 2007 annual exhibition and conference took place in San Jose, CA June 4-7th. The Conference boasts the single largest gathering of retail executives in the United States with more than 4,000 attendees, 105 speakers, and 245 exhibitors. Attendees report that site search and improving conversion rates were the hottest topics during this year’s conference. It was clear from the variety of eCommerce practitioner speakers that bullet-proof site search was essential to increasing conversion rates.

AT&T and Apple hope the introduction of the new iPhone on June 29th will cause the next retail frenzy. The device, which uses a touch-sensitive screen rather than a keypad, has been hotly anticipated with more than 1 million people signing up with AT&T to receive notice when the device is available.

Using the same hype techniques that toy manufacturers use for the launch of new gadgets and games like the Tickle-Me-Elmo doll, we will certainly hear about people camped out in lines for days and the ridiculous and inevitable stampedes of customers rushing to order the $500 - $600 unit.