Tag: Shopping
80% of people trust "pretty" web sites
When it comes to internet shopping, we’re not worried about security certificates and the like – all we’re really bothered about is a nice slick interface.
A survey by shopping A-Team Paypoint.net found that having a simple, clean interface is enough to make 80% of people trust and feel happy with an online shop, with lots of white space and clean buttons…
Sainsbury's in CRISIS – web site down, shopping undelivered, thousands at risk of starvation
Sainsburys’ web site has broken. The shopping portal is currently redirecting to a “Service Unavailable” message, accompanied by a nice stock photograph of two lemons (pictured). The site went down on Tuesday night, with the problem ruining the dinner plans of the chain’s online shoppers.
Around 10,000 people who have booked deliveries have been left without their shopping, facing the terrifying prospect of having to carry orange plastic bags home themselves for once. Here’s the moment of shame captured for posterity:
So if you’ve booked an online delivery, not only will they have mysteriously run out of all the two-for-one offers…
Microsoft MediaCart shopping trolley – too good for the local pond
Microsoft is helping design the ultimate shopping trolley: a cart that will guide you round the store, suggest recipes…and tell you if you’re sticking to your diet.
Developed by MediaCart, the wirelessly controlled trolleys will help with special offers, remember your previous purchases and ‘deliver targeted communications at the point of purchase’ – i.e. blind you with advertising based on ‘traffic patterns’ and ‘shopper interactions’.
To make food shopping…
Internet beats Tesco – one pound in seven was spent online in 2007
Tesco has been pretty proud of the way it rakes in one out of every seven pounds UK shoppers spend and is by far our largest money-taker – but the all-powerful internet beat it last year.
Finally living up to all those promises made by dotcom shopping businesses shortly before they went bust in 2001, The Internet raked in £46.6bn during 2007, a massive 50% increase over 2006’s pocketmoney level of £30.2bn…
Dell PCs to be sold in Tesco stores throughout UK
Dell has decided that it really likes shops after all. Just a week after it announced the DSG deal that will see a range of Dell computers being sold in the likes of PC World, Currys, and Dixons, it has launched a new partnership with Tesco.
From January, customers will be able to pick up XPS and Inspiron products in most of Tesco’s UK stores, plus some in Ireland, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
Shopping social networking site OSOYOU launches in beta
Surely some girls read Tech Digest, right? You’re not all hovering around Shiny Shiny getting your fix of all things pink and fluffy, are you? So hopefully there’s some of you who’ll be interested to hear that OSOYOU, the sparkly new social networking site we happen to share an office with here at Shiny Towers, just launched in beta yesterday.
Allowing you to create user profiles, drag and drop items to your wishlist using their super-cool clothes hanger, bookmark…
BT Total Broadband don their detective caps and conclude that OMG MEN SHOP ONLINE!
BT don’t just churn out the nation’s broadband and phone services anymore, oh no, it appears they spend a heck of a lot of time doing HIGHLY IMPORTANT RESEARCH FOR THE NATION’S WELFARE. In other words, they’ve just completed a survey amongst men where the results are rather un-shocking. Turns out men like shopping after all, and that vast chasm of goods otherwise known as THE INTERNET is to blame. Is to blame for them no longer buying us women flowers, I mean.
BT Total Broadband has concluded that “the traditional stereotype of men being reluctantly dragged around the shops by their wives and girlfriends has been replaced by a new era dominated by men out-shopping their partners online from the comfort and secrecy of homes and offices across the nation”.
With 72% of men having their arms twisted behind their back and forced to decrease the alleged amount of time they spend on the net buying clothes, gadgets, and assorted other necessities, BT has dubbed this the ‘Me Moment’….
Over 55s actually know how PCs work
And, according to a Microsoft survey of PC users, 95 percent of grey browsers over the age of 55 use their PCs every day – and 76 percent of these use the web to shop online.
Elsewhere in Microsoft’s state of the nation PC survey, it found that 83 percent of people…
UK broadband makes it cheaper to shop online, says uSwitch
Shopping online has always been seen as being cheaper than going to the shops, but a survey by uSwitch suggests that the UK's average broadband price is now so cheap that it's worth doing all of our shopping online rather…
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…
