What Is a Clearance Sale? The Real Markdown Math and Timing
A flash sale and a clearance sale look similar on the surface, both mean a lower price, but they work on opposite logic. A…
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What Is a Flash Sale? (And How to Catch One)
Zulily went public in 2013 at a $2.6 billion valuation, sold to QVC’s parent company just 2 years later, and shut down entirely in…
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Mother’s Day & Father’s Day Gift Guide
62% of Americans spend more on Mother’s Day than Father’s Day, and only 9% spend more the other way around, a real, consistently measured…
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Republic Day & Independence Day Sale Guide (India)
India’s 2 secular national holidays, Republic Day on January 26 and Independence Day on August 15, both genuinely became major ecommerce sale events over…
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Back to School Shopping Guide
Back to school isn’t really one shopping season, it’s 2 genuinely separate ones running at the same time. K-12 families and college families spend…
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Valentine’s Day Shopping & Coupon Guide
Only 55% of Americans actually participate in Valentine’s Day, yet that minority spent a record $29.1 billion on it in the most recently completed…
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New Year Sale Shopping Guide
“New Year sale” actually covers 2 genuinely different shopping moments that get lumped together, the party focused spending of New Year’s Eve itself, and…
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Singles Day (11.11) Shopping Guide & Statistics
In 2009, Alibaba ran a small promotion on November 11 to sell winter coats, 27 merchants took part, and the whole event brought in…
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Christmas Shopping Guide 2026
US shoppers spent a record $257.8 billion online during the most recently completed holiday shopping season, per Adobe Analytics, and for the first time…
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Cyber Monday Shopping Guide
In November 2005, a National Retail Federation marketer named Ellen Davis noticed something odd in the sales data, online spending spiked every year on…
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