With price comparison shopping increasingly popular these days, Target wants to discourage its customers from engaging in this activity by asking vendors to support in-store purchases with exclusive merchandise and better prices.

The Apple store and Amazon provide a significantly more satisfying mobile experience compared with other retailers, according to a new report from customer experience analytics firm Foresee Results.

While Amazon erodes the viability of the physical store, the Amazon storefront is fast becoming confusing to navigate, and it is a slippery slope for authors.

Mobile performance satisfaction levels started out high over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend but degraded as the holiday shopping season progressed, according to a recent report from Compuware Gomez.

As the finish line for the 2011 holiday season comes into focus, promotional activity is heating up with big digital brands such as Amazon, Groupon and eBay trying to drive uptake of their services – which all have significant mobile components – via special offers.

This holiday season, brands and marketers are stepping up their mobile application efforts. After skyrocketing mobile sales this Black Friday and Cyber Monday, retailers are starting to understand that mobile shopping apps are crucial to holiday mobile efforts.

Retailers are unhappy with Amazon’s price check app because it has the potential to eat into their margins and even funnel off sales.

Amazon.com Inc. is letting students check prices, as well as buy and trade in textbooks via the company’s new Android application.

Amazon is educating consumers to use its Price Check comparison shopping app this holiday season by offering an additional 5 percent discount when they make a purchase.

Amazon.com wants to make it easy for children and their parents to create holiday wish lists that can be shared with a new app for Kindle Fire and iPad.