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How the LCBO launched its ecommerce site in less than 12 months

Making it equally convenient for online shoppers in Moosonee, Thunder Bay, and Toronto to order Pelee Island Pinot Noir from the Liquor Control Board...

Pokémon Go reminds us that mobile channel is a driver of online and offline traffic

Pokemon Go shows us how our smartphones can influence behaviour beyond the digital world, to have an impact in the real world too.

Walmart Canada launches shopping app as mobile becomes biggest traffic-driver

Ask Rick Neuman, executive vice-president of technology and ecommerce at Walmart Canada what his favourite feature of the retailer's new mobile app is, and...

MaRS report uses investment in startups to identify 7 trends shaping tech’s future

Consumers can look forward to a future increasingly defined by a global voice, and dominated by robots, the Internet of Things (IoT), and virtual...

Looming Canada Post stoppage costing online merchants time and money

Update: Canada Post has agreed to a Canadian Union of Postal Workers 30-day extension to negotiate a new contract, meaning there will be no mail...

IBM bringing Apple Pay to small businesses online

IBM Corp. is making Apple Pay available to small and medium-sized ecommerce shops that want make the mobile payment option available to customers. Clients that use...

Survival of bricks-and-mortar among B2B firm’s 4 predictions for retail’s future

There was a time, not so long ago, that it looked like ecommerce would dominate the future of shopping. But now data shows that retailers stand to benefit from an approach combining the online and offline worlds.

Go digital or die, Sephora’s expat CEO tells Canadian retailers

As someone who is waging a retail war in the United States, Calvin McDonald wants his fellow Canadians to show the same fighting spirit...

Bricks-and-mortar retail will die within a decade, says BuildDirect CEO

As a former contractor and the current CEO of BuildDirect, Jeff Booth knows a lot about renovations - but even he says bricks-and-mortar retailing...

Dreams of ‘delivery by drone’ await regulatory runway in Canada

A Toronto-based company that announced a deal last fall with Shop.ca to provide drone deliveries to its ecommerce customers says while current government legislation...

BitGold’s Business Accounts lets merchants get paid in gold

Toronto-based BitGold Inc. launched its Business Accounts and merchants processing service today at the Money 20/20 Europe conference in Copenhagen. The service gives ecommerce merchants...

Square pushes new online store and API support in Canada

Square, the San Francisco-based firm best known for enabling merchants to accept credit card payments with their smartphones, is expanding its business into the...

Banks could soon verify credit card transactions with location-tracking smartphone apps

Both Visa and FICO are developing solutions that rely on data from smartphones to help determine if a card not present transaction is too risky for a bank to approve

How mobile sales are changing the face of retail in 2016

Too often, digital technology has been seen by the retail industry as disruptive, but the increasing demand for mobile shopping, combined with a growing...

When ‘showrooming’ is a good thing: Top 5 retail tips from Indochino’s new CEO

Indochino Inc. is one of Canada’s fastest-growing ecommerce businesses. So why the heck is it opening up bricks-and-mortar stores? It’s a fair question given that...

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