E-commerce, or electronic commerce, is the electronic purchase and sale of products or services over the internet. It includes any transaction that uses a web page to initiate or facilitate the sale ...

When most people hear the words “supply chain,” they’re likely to think of the wide variety of product shortages that became especially problematic during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is a topic that's been on the minds of many retail executives and industry watchers in recent months, with some pointing to declining e-commerce growth rates and share of sales as evidence of a ...

E-commerce now makes up $1.2 trillion of U.S. retail, around 16% of the total market. Globally, e-commerce is valued at over $5 trillion, with Amazon and Alibaba leading the pack. The growth of ...

If mail order from a catalog had not been so popular in the Western world, perhaps e-commerce would have had a slower start. However, online ordering has been so ubiquitous that in order to entice ...

Shopping on the Web that is inspired by what others purchase or recommend. Also called "social shopping," social e-commerce may be triggered by name brands that people mention in postings on their ...