Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce
For the third year in a row Gartner recognized Elastic Path as a Visionary in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce - positioning us furthest in completeness of vision and highest in ability to execute among visionaries.
New Research Confirms Brands Still Misunderstand Shoppers’ Needs
Elastic Path, the leading provider of enterprise API commerce solutions, today launched a new data report: “The Sci-Fi Shopper: How to Future Proof Your Brand for the New Consumer.” The o...
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The shopper of the future: brands failing to match customer’s needs
Brands universally underestimate the issues their customers experience the most, with long checkout lines, low inventory and customer wait times topping the list of shopper peeves, accord...
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Survey: Customers want leading-edge tech, do retailers deliver?
Retailers are overestimating the effectiveness of their customer-facing solutions. According to “The Sci-Fi Shopper: How to Future Proof Your Brand for the New Consumer,” a survey of con...
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Regulators Balk at Facebook’s Libra and other Digital Transactions News briefs
Elastic Path, an e-commerce technology provider, found in its “The Sci-Fi Shopper: How to Future Proof Your Brand for the New Consumer” report that 67% of consumers want to use check...
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Why Retailers Struggle to Give ‘Sci-Fi Shoppers’ What They Want: Simplicity
What the so-called Sci-Fi Shopper wants in a retail experience is far more down to earth than out there in a galaxy far, far away. Elastic Path surveyed more than 1,000 consumers, in addi...
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Here's how Walmart is taking on Instacart, Target and Amazon
Walmart, says the service launched a “few months ago,” aims to keep the service simple. While Delivery Unlimited enables Walmart shoppers to avoid a per-order Walmart delivery fee that ty...
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Consumers Want Futuristic Shopping Experience
Commerce solutions provider Elastic Path surveyed 1,015 online shoppers to find out what they were looking for from the brands they shopped with, and learned most consumers are looking fo...
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Facebook fleshes out plans to launch a digital currency called Libra
It’s due to launch during the first half of 2020. Facebook gets into banking: Libra will be available for Messenger and WhatsApp users around the world, and anyone who downloads the (yet...
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Voice commerce intrigues many shoppers, but most retailers and brands don’t know how to deliver it, studies find
Two studies out this week reveal that voice is certainly something that consumers are interested in trying, but that many retailers and brands are simply not geared up to service.
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Hey Alexa, Why Is Voice Shopping So Lousy?
Amazon's chatty bot, like its voice-assistant brethren, was meant to liberate us from our most tedious tasks. That includes buying things—reordering toothpaste, stocking the fridge. But v...
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