News - September 2011

Collective purchasing platform attacks online price

30 September 2011 12:02

Many UK consumers will already be familiar with the price-saving potential of services like Groupon, but a new site called Buyapowa has launched this week, to bring a greater degree of social co- [...]

Amazon tops UK retail brand charts

29 September 2011 11:03

Amazon has come out on top in yet another poll in the UK, this time one which determines how consumers perceive the various retailers available to them, both online and on the high street.According to [...]

Five hundred per cent m-commerce sales boost for New Look

28 September 2011 09:50

Fashion outlet franchise New Look has seen a 500 per cent increase in the number of people who are using its m-commerce platform to carry out safe shopping online and actually buy products, according [...]

Game works with OnLive for UK launch

27 September 2011 11:55

The e-commerce outlet from videogame retail giant, Game, is set to support the arrival of streaming service, OnLive, as it makes its UK debut this month.OnLive started life in America, allowing gamers [...]

House of Fraser plans in-store collection for e-commerce users

26 September 2011 10:15

House of Fraser is trialling a new service which will allow those who buy products online to collect them at their local store in the UK.At first just two department stores, one in Aberdeen and [...]

Men continue to dominate e-commerce usage

23 September 2011 10:35

More men than women are using e-commerce, according to a study conducted in Australia over the past four years.Measurements taken between 2007 and 2011 suggest that men have increased the amount they [...]

Play.com purchased by Japanese retail giant

22 September 2011 21:13

UK online-only retailer Play.com has been snapped up by Rakuten, an e-commerce company which is the largest of its kind in its native Japan.Play.com has been providing DVDs, CDs, clothing and [...]

UK consumers avoiding online electronics purchases

21 September 2011 09:33

A study suggests that UK consumers are unwilling to commit to buying large, expensive electronics such as TVs online.Instead they are choosing to search for the products they want to buy on the [...]

Shoddy online shopping experiences cost retailers £500 million

20 September 2011 10:58

UK retailers are losing out on up to half a billion pounds worth of sales because the online shopping experience via desktop or mobile platforms are just not up to the standards expected by consumers. [...]

Yell planning m-commerce app

19 September 2011 09:24

Yell Group, which is responsible for publishing business and residential directories both in print and online, is building its very own m-commerce app, according to CityAM.It will be working in [...]

John Lewis forecasts e-commerce growth

16 September 2011 09:53

In 3 years time retailer John Lewis believes that its online shop will be pulling in an annual turnover of £1 billion.This year the firm predicts that it will make a fifth of its total sales via [...]

Value of online shopping baskets drops 20 percent this summer

15 September 2011 10:17

UK consumers are reigning in their average expenditure when shopping online, with typical order values shrinking by a fifth during July and August.This is according to statistics gathered by Computop, [...]

Amazon planning shopping centre delivery service

14 September 2011 14:25

Online retailer Amazon is going to make it easier for consumers who work during the day to pick up the products that they have ordered via e-commerce by setting up drop box delivery lockers in UK [...]

Dixons targeting Nordic nations with e-commerce

13 September 2011 13:24

Consumer electronics giant Dixons is well known in the UK and it has been making a push to enter the Nordic market in recent years, with the latest news being that it will be focusing on establishing [...]

M-commerce rush anticipated during Christmas period

12 September 2011 11:58

As the Christmas shopping season is starting to take hold, more UK consumers than ever before will be carrying out safe shopping online from their mobile phones, according to a recent study.In the [...]

Former Apple exec hired for Morrisons e-commerce drive

09 September 2011 10:08

UK supermarket chain Morrisons has snapped up Simon Thompson to help push forward its plans to bring safe shopping online to customers across the country.
Mr Thompson was formerly a marketing [...]

August sees further e-commerce growth

08 September 2011 10:32

UK consumers helped to increase the number of sales made by safe shopping online last month despite the relatively gloomy picture facing most of the retail market, according to KPMG.Online sales were [...]

Vouchers vouchsafe e-commerce success

07 September 2011 09:50

Vouchers and discount codes are becoming an important part of shopping online, allowing consumers to get great deals and helping retailers win over new customers, according to expert Josephine Boyd.A [...]

Best Buy targets m-commerce market

06 September 2011 09:22

Retailer Best Buy, which entered the UK back in 2009, has launched its first official m-commerce outlet to enable safe shopping online from smartphones and tablet devices.The company has made the [...]

John Lewis expands UK click and collect service.

05 September 2011 09:58

More UK consumers will be able to use the John Lewis website to carry out safe shopping online and then collect their products from in-store, after the retailer announced it would be making the click [...]

European e-commerce access doubles in five years

02 September 2011 13:23

The number of people in the EU who use safe shopping online to buy goods and services has doubled over the last half a decade, according to a study commissioned by the European Parliament.Back in 2005, [...]

Consumers manage budgets via e-commerce

01 September 2011 11:33

A study has found that many UK shoppers are compiling the lists of items they need to buy via online shopping in order to work out how much a typical trip to the supermarket will cost them.Consumers [...]