The upcoming holiday season should provide plenty of cheer for retail businesses and their employees in 2014. According to a recent forecast, the National Retail Federation is predicting a jump in sales of more than 4 percent as compared to sales from the previous year. NRF president and CEO, Mark Shay, expressed cautious optimism, citing moderate growth in consumer sales over the course of the year.  “Retailers could see a welcome boost in holiday shopping, giving some companies the shot in...

Making last-minute changes to a website is like opening the door for error. And introducing the possibility for errors can potentially create difficulties for shoppers. As most webstore owners know, there’s no room for errors of any kind during major shopping events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday or the holiday shopping season in general.   And that’s why it’s understood between the developers who make changes to a site and the business owners who oversee it that changes shouldn’t be made...