Andrea K. Leigh Featured on Rethink Retail’s Retail Cloud Alliance Podcast Discussing Sporting Goods and Fitness Brands
Welcome to Retail Therapy, a Retail Cloud Alliance podcast, broadcasting live from ShopTalk 2024. Today’s host is Andrea K. Leigh, accompanied by esteemed colleagues Michael Klein, Lisa Amlani, and Neil Saunders, all part of the RETHINK Retail’s Top Retail Experts community. In this episode, we explore emerging trends and strategies in the sporting goods sector, […]
Andrea K. Leigh Featured on Unpacking the Digital Shelf Podcast Discussing Predictions for 2024
Every quarter, the ecommerce education consultancy Allume Group consolidates the output of expert conversations, annual reports, and the latest data to create their Allume Insider report, or AIR. It’s chock a block full of the most current insights into the present and future of ecommerce. Andrea K. Leigh, Founder & CEO of Allume Group rejoins […]
Artificial intelligence’s disruptive impact on e-commerce
This article originally appeared in Chain Drug Review. Read the original article here. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era for e-commerce, redefining how we search for products, reshaping the foundational building blocks of success in e-commerce and transforming retailer experiences. From revolutionizing product search behavior to making time-consuming tasks […]
The Death of a Keyword, and the Re-Shuffling of $500B in US eCommerce Sales
Search is really important. It’s so much faster than browsing. In fact, it’s so much better that over 80% of Amazon’s sales are driven by customers going to the search bar, entering some keywords and buying one of the top five products of the thousands that the search query returns. Keyword Search Sucks As great […]
How to beat Amazon at its own game
This article originally appeared in Drugstore News Amazon is a force, but a tried-and-true strategy of differentiation could help retail pharmacy compete.By Andrea K. Leigh Amazon’s success, bolstered by the pandemic-driven shift to e-commerce, is inarguable. With revenue of $302 billion in 2021 and more than 157 million Amazon Prime members, the company is a formidable […]
Reading the 1H 2022 Ecommerce Tea Leaves, with Andrea Leigh, Founder and CEO, Allume Group
As we all know, the ground of commerce and consumer behavior continue to shift under our feet as we near the end of the 1st half of 2022.
Geekwire Podcast Appearance Discussing Amazon’s 2022 Shareholder Call
Andrea Leigh joined Todd Bishop on the Geekwire Podcast to deep dive on Amazon’s 2022 Annual Shareholder call.
What Amazon’s plan to improve worker safety reveals about the company’s true nature
Addressing the issue of warehouse worker safety in response to a shareholder question this week, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy described the company’s safety initiatives — most of them related to technology and invention. Wearable technology with haptic signals to let workers know when their movements are putting their safety at risk. A program with algorithms […]
Amazon Q1 2022 Earnings Hot Take
✔️#Profit took a nosedive as Amazon realized a loss of $3.8B, largely driven by a $7.6B loss on Rivian and an incremental $2B in incremental costs due to inflation and overstaffing / productivity. Netrevenue growth was lackluster at 7.3%, the second straight quarter of single digit growth. ✔️Amazon launched an increase in FBA fees (fuel & inflation surcharge) last week. […]
Industry Expert Andrea K. Leigh Launches Allume Group to Address eCommerce Strategy Expertise Gap
New Education Company to Deliver Scalable eCommerce Education, Certifications, and Community for Brands and Brand-Enablers to Win in eCommerce SEATTLE – April 21, 2022 – Allume Group, an eCommerce education provider for brands and brand-enablers, today announced its official launch to empower consumer brand professionals, and those who work with them, with the knowledge and […]