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The market shares of televisions made by Korean electronics makers in China have dropped below 5 percent due to strong sales of the appliances made by Chinese companies, according to research firm IHS on Monday. ... Read more

Four out of 10 televisions sold on online shopping malls in the United States this year were manufactured by South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co., a report showed Thursday.... Read more

Maturing e-commerce providers FreshDirect and Peapod are not growing nearly as quickly as their younger competitors but they maintain an edge in metrics like basket size, according to a new study of customer spending data.
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New data released by analytics platform 1010data shows that online sales for TVs reached $3.2 billion (October 2015 – September 2016), growing 40 per cent year over year.... Read more

Last year (on April Fools' Day no less), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) launched its Dash buttons, giving its Prime members the ability to order common household with the single press of a button. ... Read more

Cincinnati-based Macy’s Inc. announced plans in August to close about 100 as-yet-unidentified stores due to declining sales. Media speculation ramped up in October that downtown Minneapolis might be one of those stores.... Read more

Macy's is about to kick off its next wave of store closures. The retailer revealed plans in August to shut down 100 stores in early 2017 as it battles slowing sales and growing online competition.... Read more

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have used meal kit delivery services in the hopes that, yes, they can. Meal kits are disassembled dinners: Recipes and pre-portioned ingredients delivered directly to your home. (But they still require all the chopping and sauteing before you can actually enjoy the meal.)... Read more

Amazon's move into private label products appears to be paying off as a new analysis finds these competing with category leaders or even becoming the online category leader.... Read more

Online sales of TV purchases grew 40 percent to $3.2 billion year over year.  Samsung led all other brands in online purchases in the period, while Best Buy topped all e-commerce retailers, according to findings just released by market research firm 1010data.... Read more

Amazon, which is planning to push channel boundaries with brick-and-mortar grocery stores, convenience stores and pick-up points, has been extremely successful in taking market share from established consumer products goods (CPGs) brands in key categories, said a new report by 1010data Inc. ... Read more

According to our estimates, the general merchandize segment is the most valuable segment for Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), accounting for more than 50% of its valuation. It now appears that the company’s investment in its private label products is likely to drive growth of this segment in the long term. ... Read more

With a $2 billion valuation and fast-track growth, Blue Apron is the iron chef of meal-kit startups. But don't discount one of its smaller rivals, California-based Chef’d, which is strategically taking on the frontrunner in the space on by working with partners to slice and dice customer acquisition costs.... Read more

Amazon is showing massive surge in market share of private label products in several categories.... Read more

Amazon is successfully taking market share from established brands in several product categories, analysis from market-research firm 1010data purports.... Read more