digital retail

  1. flukes

    Amazon Auto - Any Traction? Anyone Participating? Hearing Anything?

    Has anyone heard about results with Amazon Auto? It's using A2Z Sync and is in beta testing with amazon employees where they can purchase online. I've heard several of the top 25 groups are in an advisory board. Anyone know anything more or conflicting with that?
  2. Jeff Kershner

    Ford Going 100% Online with Fixed-Price Sales For EVs

    CEO Jim Farley says direct delivery, zero negotiation, and fully online transactions are necessary for the brand's EV business. A few items from the article... The Ford brand will transition to exclusively online, fixed-price, delivered-to-your-door sales for EVs. Current Ford stores will have...
  3. Jeff Kershner

    Texas Sues Vroom, Responding to Consumer Complaints

    Some customers say they have waited months for their license plates Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton has filed a deceptive trade practices lawsuit against Vroom Automotive. Paxton noted that consumers have filed over 5,000 complaints since 2018 with both the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and...
  4. Jeff Kershner

    J.D. Power introduces new Digital Retailing Platform

    J.D. Power has launched "Shop With Ease" - a digital retailing platform that will enable vehicle shopping, payment calculations and electronic contracting. The new Digital Retail solution is supported by Darwin Automotive, the finance and insurance software provider J.D. Power acquired last...
  5. Marc Lavoie

    What do you think about TrueCar+?

    Is this how car dealerships are going to fight Carvana and the likes? Curious to hear about your take.
  6. Jeff Kershner

    #RefreshFriday The September 2021 Auto Biz News | DealerRefresh

    September 2021 Auto Biz News from DealerRefresh Our first ever news Vidcast on RefreshFriday! Bring your comments to this one folks as @Jeff Kershner and @Alex Snyder get interactive with every topic discussed. Fair ends subscription Rumors of layoffs JM&A + DealerPolicy + Darwin and what...
  7. Matthew Davis

    PR & News Vehicle Valuation API - Carpraze and TradePending

    Behind the scenes, the same valuation methodology that powers the SNAP trade-in tool also powers many of the digital retailing tools, all done via the TradePending API. We're excited to share that Carpraze picked our API over the others to power their vehicle valuations. Official post here and...
  8. Greg Spencer

    CarGurus Convert digital retail tool?

    CarGurus is offering "early access" to a new digital-retail tool called CarGurus Convert: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/04/22/2215129/0/en/CarGurus-Announces-Early-Access-for-Dealerships-to-Preview-Latest-Digital-Retail-Offering.html The press release mentions a Texas dealer...
  9. Jeff Kershner

    Tekion - EV Digital Retail solution for car dealers?

    General Motors chose Tekion. And now Hyundai USA has selected Tekion Corp to be one of three digital retailing EV platforms for dealers, along with Roadster and Dealer.com. Tekion is a relatively new company that more known for their DMS but began rolling out its digital retailing tool to...
  10. Greg Spencer

    TrueCar's VIN-Specific Digital Payments and Trade Tools?

    Apparently these tools have been in pilot mode for awhile, including at some Autonation dealers. Does anyone have experience with them? Are they useful? Are you eager to opt in? At least while they're no-extra-charge for franchise dealers? And is this a significant step forward for TrueCar's...
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