Tag: online shopping
Consumers often can’t detect fake reviews – and underestimate how many...
Shabnam Azimi, Loyola University Chicago
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Gen Z smartphone addiction can boost compulsive buying – but businesses...
Nisreen Ameen, Royal Holloway University of London
People born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s – so-called generation Z...
What are dark patterns? An online media expert explains
Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida
Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors...
Instagram’s redesign shifts toward shopping – here’s how that can be...
Nazanin Andalibi, University of Michigan
Recently, when I opened Instagram, I noticed that the usual spot for checking notifications is now a Shop tab. The...
Buyer beware: Counterfeit markets can flourish during a public health crisis
Jay Kennedy, Michigan State University
Rapid acceleration of coronavirus-related infections and fatalities in countries like Italy, Spain and the United States has led to widespread...
3 reasons Forever 21’s bankruptcy doesn’t spell the end of brick-and-mortar...
Anthony Dukes, University of Southern California
Affordable fashion brand Forever 21’s decision to file for bankruptcy and shutter hundreds of its stores has resurrected the...
Amazon is turning 25 – here’s a look back at how...
Venkatesh Shankar, Texas A&M University
A quarter of a century ago, on July 5, 1994, a company, which shared a name with the world’s...
Online shopping: why its unstoppable growth may be coming to an...
Ralf Seifert, IMD Business School and Richard Markoff, EPFL- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Many people probably...