Free Shipping Madness

Free shipping has taken hold at many of the top retailers.

In tracking the E-Tailing Group 100 index, the number of sites offering unconditional free shipping hit a seasonal high this week. Other categories of free shipping increased as well this week.




Some of the retailers who have only recently offered unconditional free shipping include:

Ann Taylor
Polo
Gymboree
ShopNBC
PBS
Overstock
Fossil
Tiffany
Sephora
GNC
Office Depot
Staples

Big 10 Retailers - 2008-01-12

I'm experimenting with new ways to present the weekly changes of the top internet retails sites. This PowerPoint is a comparison of 01/12/08 to the prior week 01/05/08 for ten of the top sites.

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Amazon Jewelry - This week Amazon devoted nearly half of their home page selling space to jewelry. Just in time for Valentine's day. The other big ad is for their Tax Central.

Ten companies reviewed are : Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, Hewlett-Packard, J.C. Penney, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Target, Williams-Sonoma.