E-commerce

As Grand Prize Winners, both products will be sold on Walmart.com and receive additional online marketing support.

Despite the e-commerce boom, brick-and-mortar stores should still account for approximately 85 percent of U.S. retail sales in 2025. But that doesn't mean your company should stand still. Here, McKinsey & Company identifies five trends will most impact on the industry, from demographic changes to emerging retail business models.

Application Support and Maintenance (ASM) is quickly becoming an IT agenda, but probably not for the right reasons.

The premium chocolatier celebrates its web site with exclusive products, a free shipping offer and gift-with-purchase promotion.

Reckitt Benckiser Group LLC (RB) analyzed sales before and after the placement of consumer generated video for eight of its brands on a major retailers e-commerce operation.

Earlier this week,Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. President and CEO Mike Duke assuredinvestors Walmart will win no matter what environment it's in. "When you go to our stores, you're going to see fantastic new merchandise, aggressive investments in price through lots of rollbacks and better in-stock levels. We're focusing on execution to deliver results." Here's a review of progress that's been made and Walmart's plans for the future.

Today's digital channels have and will continue to fundamentally transform the consumer experience, creating a new class of more informed and more demanding shoppers. As a result, we are also now seeing a blurring of the traditional lines between trading partners, where the "war for the consumer" may actually be yielding to a truer form of collaboration than we've ever seen.

The world's reigning retailer expects online sales to exceed $10 billion globally this fiscal year, and will open two large fulfillment centers to allow customers to shop seamlessly across online, mobile and stores. But will these steps enable the company to compete head-to-head with its largest online competitor?