08.03.08
E-commerce News Around the Web…
To Save Gas, Shoppers Stay Home and Click
To go shopping these days, more Americans are trading in their car keys for a keyboard.
Online shopping is gaining at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree.
A number of retailers — including Gap, Victoria’s Secret and J. C. Penney — are experiencing double-digit sales growth at their shopping Web sites, creating a surprising bright spot during an otherwise gloomy time for sales in brick-and-mortar stores…
Brit Embrace E-commerce
In UK, adoption of e-commerce is growing at the expense of high street shopping. According to the report, both top-end and low-end retailers are feeling the effects of the shift to internet shopping.
The online sales index from IMRG-Capgemini has discovered that 17p in every £1 spent by UK shoppers goes to internet retailers, with £26.5 million spent on the web in the first half of 2008…
High Gas Fueling E-commerce
Research firm eMarketer has some good news for online retailers: high gas prices are fueling more Web shopping. In a July 25 report senior analyst Jeffrey Grau points to several consumer polls showing more shoppers are opting to spend online and save at the pump… Read more here >>
