Consumer Shopping Tips

Online Shopping Networks Dependence on Social MediaNews from Daily Deal Media: Online shopping networks, such as MoneyOnTheGo.Net, are taking social media trends and statistics to validate the backbone of their company, but is it enough? A press release in MarketWire yesterday, noted the increase in online shopping networks positioning their companies with success using social media techniques. What [...]

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns Amid Shift to Online ShoppingNews from TIME: Ronda Churchill / Bloomberg / Getty Images Best Buy CEO resigned Tuesday after 28 years at the company. He became CEO in June 2009. Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn, who rose from sales associate to lead the world’s largest electronics retailer, resigned [...]

Malls fighting financial woes as online shopping increasesNews from KTBS: Small Text Medium Text Large Text Mall Malaise Other than baseball, it seems safe to say that shopping is America’s other favorite pastime. In fact, Internet Retailer reports that U.S. online sales are expected to reach nearly 225 billion dollars this year. It’s clear shopping [...]

Giant Eagle tests new online shopping serviceNews from Pittsburgh Post Gazette: April 8, 2012 12:00 am Bob Donaldson/Post-Gazette Giant Eagle Market District shoppers Jackie Brown and Kaleigh Podgorski look for a specific Chinese food product as they follow a computer-plotted shopping path to fill a test order for the new shopping service to debut. Bob [...]

New Online Shopping Mall Boasts Quality Products for Home, Office & OutdoorsNews from Albany Times Union: Businesswoman Margot Murray is proud to announce the launch of her latest online endeavor, GreatBigShop.com. Shoppers are invited to browse through an extensive inventory of goods for the home, office, and outdoors. Name brand health products and children’s educational [...]

The dark face of a cheap and easy online shopping habitNews from Sydney Morning Herald: A UK warehouse worker for Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer. Photo: Reuters THE cardboard box landed and out they flew: three brand new children’s books, bought from Amazon for the price of two cups of coffee, plus shipping costs. [...]

Tablets, Smartphones to Change Online Shopping?News from Practical Ecommerce: The shift to tablet and smartphone computing will surely change how consumers shop online. We recently spoke with Brian Horakh, founder and CEO of Zoovy, the shopping cart platform, about how this shift will affect ecommerce merchants. Horakh is an ecommerce pioneer — having founded Zoovy [...]

Online shopping shift picks up speedNews from Sydney Morning Herald: Online retail sales surged in February in the latest sign of a shift in consumer spending to the internet. The National Australia Bank Online retail sales index jumped 26 per cent in the year to February, accelerating from the 19 per cent pace in the [...]

Sold on online shoppingNews from BusinessLIVE: The weekly family shop is so much less aggravating and dangerous to the health of oneself and others when carried out over a computer keyboard, writes Tina Weavind No Caption “ The convenience of not having to spend an hour shopping is worth not getting all you’ve ordered Other [...]

Canadian Online Shopping on the Ups or on the Outs?News from Seattle Post Intelligencer: Shopbot.ca confirms online shopping can be a piece of cake. Quebec City, Quebec (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 Canadians love to shop. But following a recent study conducted for Google by Boston Consulting Group, there has a been a lot of buzz [...]