Category: Retail
Online sales set to soar by 54%, claims ParcelHero
As Lockdown 2.0 closes Britain’s High Streets for a second time, the UK courier services expert ParcelHero says retailers and home delivery networks are braced for a massive surge in deliveries thanks to increased online sales. ParcelHero reckons that, unlike the first lockdown, supermarkets, online retailers and their delivery partners are well prepared for the huge…
ONS figures reveal we’re in for a ‘Digital Christmas’
Whisper it! Santa is going digital this Christmas ONS figures show retail’s fight-back continued in September, with significant online pre-ordering of new games consoles pointing the way to a digital Christmas, says the home delivery specialist ParcelHero. Today’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) retail sales figures for September showed the much-heralded…
CCTV that detects face mask wearers now in operation
CCTV cameras that can detect if you are wearing a face mask or not are being installed in shops across the UK because of increasingly non-compliant customers. Shops across the UK are using the technology to help staff tackle awkward customers who will not wear face masks in their stores. The solution has been developed…
Average Brit spends 43 minutes browsing online before buying
The average Brit will spend just under 43 minutes browsing online before committing to a purchase. A survey of 2,000 UK adults also found almost four in 10 also read online reviews before finally hitting ‘buy’. Insurance and white goods are the top items shoppers are most likely to look for a good deal on,…
Strongest ever online growth for store retailers as High Street re-opens
Online retail sales growth continued to soar by 41.3% Year-on-Year (YoY) during the week commencing June 14 (the week non-essential stores reopened) Even as bricks & mortar stores began trading once more, the amount spent that week was still 1.8% higher than the week previous Despite the re-opening of their physical outlets, multichannel retail sales…
World’s 5 biggest shopping apps hit 27 million downloads in a month
Thousands of stores and shopping malls have closed since March amid coronavirus lockdowns, leaving millions of consumers around the world with no access to goods and services. As a result, the last few months have witnessed a surge in the number of people using shopping apps as an alternative to the brick-and-mortar shops. The world’s…
UK online retail sales up nearly 30% in April, claims IMRG
Online retail sales growth was up a staggering 23.8% on last April, and 28.2% on March this year as high streets across the country remain deserted. Following the UK’s first full month under lockdown, April’s online retail sales results have signalled a seismic shift in purchasing patterns. As COVID-19 shut brick and mortar stores up…
eBay and Amazon still Coronavirus profiteering, claims Which?
Consumer watchdog Which? is calling for urgent government action to limit the prices of essential products during the coronavirus crisis, after a new investigation found Amazon and eBay are still failing to get to grips with blatant profiteering on their websites. More than a month after the competition regulator raised the alarm, and despite a…
Online sales fall flat in January, IMRG survey shows
After a surprisingly strong Christmas sales period, retailer hopes of a continuation of such growth into 2020 were dashed in January, with online retail sales growth dropping back to -0.4% Year-on-Year (YoY). That’s according to the latest IMRG Capgemini Online Retail Index, which tracks the online sales performance of over 200 retailers. In a month where almost 10,000…
Is 2019 the year ‘Black Friday’ stops being on Black Friday?
Andy Mulcahy, Strategy and Insight Director, IMRG explains why Black Friday promotions actually start well in advance of the day (and probably go on well into the weekend too)... With Black Friday officially occurring today (the UK market has stuck with the US date for the retail event, falling the day after Thanksgiving, which is…
