Consumer Shopping Tips

Al Ostoura launches online shopping store in Arabic News from AME Info:“We are very excited to open Al Ostoura’s online store and offer our customers the chance to shop from the comfort of their homes and in Arabic. This development comes at a time where we are focusing on our local and regional clients who [...]

Riot boosts to online shopping News from The Sun: Web punters helped department store JOHN LEWIS and its supermarket WAITROSE to a JUMP in overall sales amid the chaos. John Lewis’s store in Croydon, South London, was raided on Monday August 8 and had to close the next day. And many of its dozens of [...]

Consumer confidence in online shopping sites flags News from Computing: Consumers are increasingly wary of shopping online, with only a third now believing that most shopping web sites can be trusted. A survey conducted on behalf of security firm McAfee showed that consumer concerns over online shopping have risen sharply in the past two years, [...]

The Winners and Losers of the Recession’s Online Shopping News from The Atlantic: The economy hasn’t recovered, but that hasn’t stopped people form getting their shop on — this is consumerist America, after all. When the market tanked, buying slowed, but a lot of the purchasing that did happen migrated online, explains The Wall Street Journal‘s [...]

Freightways boosted by online shopping News from Stuff.co.nz:NICK KRAUSE Online shopping may be the bane of bricks and mortar retailers but it’s a fast-growing earner for courier operator Freightways, which has just recorded record overall sales of $ 353 million for the year. The NZX-listed company runs two operations – the core express package and [...]

Many Australians prefer online shopping News from Broadband Expert Australia: Aug 16 2011 / By Rob Webber The results of a recent study have shown that many people in Australia prefer online shopping to bricks and mortar shopping, a trend that has received mixed reactions from officials. For the past few years more and more [...]

Cirque’s GlidePoint NFC trackpad makes online shopping even lazier (video) News from Engadget: By Amar Toor posted Aug 12th 2011 10:07AM We’ve seen NFC technology pop up in everything from smartphones to windshields, but a company called Cirque has now expanded it to desktops, as well, with its GlidePoint trackpad. Cirque’s system is relatively straightforward, [...]

Is Online Shopping Killing Bricks-And-Mortar? News from TheBull.com.au: Imagine one evening after a tiring day at work, you flop down for a quick nap but end up pulling a Rumplestiltskin, falling into a deep sleep that lasts years. When you finally wake up, it’s the year 2025 and you’re just in time for the holidays. [...]

Online shopping boom makes parcels worth the weight News from Herald Sun: Some outlets say they are running out of space to store the parcels. Source: The Australian THE boom in online retailing has seen postal outlets run off their feet dealing with an increase in parcels. Some outlets, which are licensed to deliver Australia [...]

Online shopping sales up 14% in second quarter News from VatorNews: I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the Monday after S&P downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA+ for the first time, stocks predictably tanked as shareholders panicked and bailed. The good news is that consumers are still lazy [...]