Despite the high expectations of wholesale buyers, nearly 40 percent of the top wholesale companies have extremely basic or nonexistent websites, missing an opportunity to enhance the buyer experience through e-commerce, according to a report from hybris, a commerce platform.
Online shoppers in the U.S. will spend $54.47bn this holiday season - nearly a 17-percent increase over the $46.63bn spent last year, according to the 2012 Mindset of a Multichannel Shopper survey.