Tag: Online Shopping
UK shoppers are impatient, ditching high street for web and not waiting for slow sites
New research from Gomez reveals that UK shoppers are becoming increasingly impatient, ditching the high street for the online retailer, and not hanging around if a web site loads slowly. Nearly 2 out of 3 shoppers will spend more online…
Jessops launch general online gadget store
Jessops, the high street photographic and camera specialists, have entered the online gadget marketplace with the launch of their Tecno store. The site will sell a variety of big brand consumer electronics products, not just cameras, such as TVs, portable…
Time nearly up for Christmas online shopping
Consumers are being warned that today is the last official day for ordering Christmas gifts online – if you want them to arrive before the big day. That's because by law retailers are only obliged to deliver within 30 days…
RightGift4Me website launches to banish the unwanted 'sock attack'
With surveys suggesting that, as a nation, we spend at least £1.2bn on unwanted Christmas presents, and probably a similar amount on other major occasions, a website claims that it can come to the rescue and banish socks and 'smellies'…
Alibris UK opens the world of indpendent bookstores and rare books
Alibris, a United States' online bookstore specialising in both new and second-hand book sales, today opened up its UK online bookstore. Alibris UK provides access to over 60 million new, out-of-print, rare, and second-hand books to both the UK and…
Online shopping of the future: Virtual touch
A team of researchers at the University of Geneva are currently working on an experiment system to add touch to the online shopping experience, allowing customers to gain a sense of what products, particularly clothing, would actually feel like. Of…
Online consumers impatient for sites to load
We're an impatient lot online, as a new survey suggests that if it takes more than 4 seconds for a web page to load, we'll abandon it. Research by Akamai showed that we're less happy to wait for our web…
Online electronics stores failing British customers, survey says
A recent study from an eService provide suggests that many online electronics and gadgets stores are failing their existing and potential customers by failing to respond quickly, or even at all, to simple requests for information and assistance. 70 per…
Christmas shopping starts earlier online
Latest figures from Hitwise suggest that many UK consumers are starting their online Christmas shopping earlier than last year. Visits to the top 100 UK leading retailers was up 2% last week over the same week in 2005, and 6%…
Consumers may spend more online
GfK have done research claiming that consumers will spend up to 50% more for electrical goods online than on the high street, the reasoning being that they'll buy higher-specification products thinking they'll get a better deal online. As an example,…
