Amazon Wants You to Build Another Store I’ve read enough Medium and Vox articles recently to know I should get right to the point. Prediction: Regional grocers will lose the battle against Walmart, Amazon, Target, Peapod, and specialty meal providers (Blue Apron, etc.) as they try to stem losses with physical store expansion rather than developing technology conveniences to re-engage and cement consumer loyalty. They will stumble into… Read More »
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Friday, June 15th, 2018 and filed under
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On WSJ’s “Big Brands Risk Losing Their Voice” – Original Article When we started GimmeAnother about 5 years ago, we posited that there was a large and kinda obvious efficiency that was being left on the table by online retailers. In a nutshell, online shopping was still defined by a standard checkout routine, a process that was the same for both new orders and orders that should be… Read More »
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 and filed under
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Retailers, Grocers Prepare to Get Roasted as New Competitors Bring the Heat In the few short months since I wrote the Unclumsy article on the sad demise of Radio Shack, the wave of retail closures has continued, now plainly visible above even our loud national politics as the business press covers every terrible detail of what, actually, seemed like a pretty obvious and inevitable arc. One after another… Read More »
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Monday, June 5th, 2017 and filed under
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Specialty Retailers Shrug and Wait to See What Goes Down Brick and mortar retailers remain under pressure from online retailers, of course, especially as Amazon continues to hone their game: products offered at little or no margin and an almost perfect delivery channel, your gift of instant gratification arriving the day after you hit the order button. Indeed, recent reporting on their Prime service also indicates that Amazon… Read More »
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Saturday, January 28th, 2017 and filed under
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Retailers Forget Upside of Retention Amid Customer Acquisition Strategies Our family is the proud owner of a brand-new washing machine. We took a bit of time to choose it and it’s a good one, assembled here in the USA, and loaded with a lot of features. Like many of our durable goods purchases, I intend to take care of it and hope to own it for a long… Read More »
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 and filed under
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ThinkWithGoogle Gets It Almost Right “In the middle of washing dishes, Cathy broke his milk frother and reflexively turned to his smartphone to find a replacement. Within five minutes, it was purchased and on its way. Motivated by ease and efficiency, she crossed off this new task before it even hit her to-do list.” – ThinkWithGoogle* You never know when a moment of pure genius and inspiration will… Read More »
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Sunday, July 3rd, 2016 and filed under
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We live in a world of fickle people. The bottom line is that customers will cheat on you if they find a lower price—unless you give them a reason not to. What are those reasons? Well, first, if your product is awesome, and the customer absolutely loves it, she won’t stray. Take a dedicated marathon runner, for example. She loves her shoes. She needs to replace them every… Read More »
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Monday, May 9th, 2016 and filed under
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One of the scariest statistics in e-commerce is the dreaded shopping cart abandonment rate. If you can stomach it, click on this link here to view the shocking numbers gathered by several data companies. The average abandonment rate is 67.91%. Ugh! That’s a lot of lost revenue. The number is even more harrowing when we take a look at m-commerce. A whopping 97% of mobile transactions are abandoned (SeeWhy). Now… Read More »
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Friday, January 16th, 2015 and filed under
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A recent blog on StratSavvy runs through merits of the GimmeAnother app. “With a myriad of apps out there with a range of usefulness especially in the startup world, this is a page 1 app that will shine through.” Read the full post here.
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 and filed under
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TECHNOLOGY CONVERTS SOCIAL MEDIA TRAFFIC TO ORDERS, CUSTOMER RETENTION AND IMPROVED USER EXPERIENCE CHICAGO, IL (July 17, 2014) — GimmeAnother, creators of a game-changing mobile application that allows customers to easily re-order products from their favorite brands and stores, recently released its Save to Mobile™ technology. Save to Mobile empowers customers with the ability to save products directly onto their mobile devices. Now GimmeAnother is excited to announce… Read More »
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 and filed under
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