Category: Retail
Average Brit spends 43 minutes browsing online before buying
The average Brit will spend just under 43 minutes browsing online before committing to a purchase. A survey of 2,000 UK adults also found almost four in 10 also read online reviews before finally hitting ‘buy’. Insurance and white goods are the top items shoppers are most likely to look for a good deal on,…
Strongest ever online growth for store retailers as High Street re-opens
Online retail sales growth continued to soar by 41.3% Year-on-Year (YoY) during the week commencing June 14 (the week non-essential stores reopened) Even as bricks & mortar stores began trading once more, the amount spent that week was still 1.8% higher than the week previous Despite the re-opening of their physical outlets, multichannel retail sales…
World’s 5 biggest shopping apps hit 27 million downloads in a month
Thousands of stores and shopping malls have closed since March amid coronavirus lockdowns, leaving millions of consumers around the world with no access to goods and services. As a result, the last few months have witnessed a surge in the number of people using shopping apps as an alternative to the brick-and-mortar shops. The world’s…
UK online retail sales up nearly 30% in April, claims IMRG
Online retail sales growth was up a staggering 23.8% on last April, and 28.2% on March this year as high streets across the country remain deserted. Following the UK’s first full month under lockdown, April’s online retail sales results have signalled a seismic shift in purchasing patterns. As COVID-19 shut brick and mortar stores up…
eBay and Amazon still Coronavirus profiteering, claims Which?
Consumer watchdog Which? is calling for urgent government action to limit the prices of essential products during the coronavirus crisis, after a new investigation found Amazon and eBay are still failing to get to grips with blatant profiteering on their websites. More than a month after the competition regulator raised the alarm, and despite a…
Online sales fall flat in January, IMRG survey shows
After a surprisingly strong Christmas sales period, retailer hopes of a continuation of such growth into 2020 were dashed in January, with online retail sales growth dropping back to -0.4% Year-on-Year (YoY). That’s according to the latest IMRG Capgemini Online Retail Index, which tracks the online sales performance of over 200 retailers. In a month where almost 10,000…
Is 2019 the year ‘Black Friday’ stops being on Black Friday?
Andy Mulcahy, Strategy and Insight Director, IMRG explains why Black Friday promotions actually start well in advance of the day (and probably go on well into the weekend too)... With Black Friday officially occurring today (the UK market has stuck with the US date for the retail event, falling the day after Thanksgiving, which is…
More UK retailers to accept Alipay following Barclaycard partnership
Chinese mobile payments giant Alipay can now be used in more UK stores after a partnership with Barclaycard was announced. AliPay is currently accepted in some UK shops, restaurants and hotels but Barclaycard says it will now offer software that will enable retailers to update their existing point-of-sale systems to support Alipay – rather than…
Shopping via smartphones and tablets to rise by £10bn, uSwitch survey suggests
Shopping via smartphones and tablets is set to rise by £10 billion since last year as consumers make more visits to online sites than malls for the first time, a survey from uSwitch suggests. Some 30 million Britons (58%) will use smart devices to shop this year, an increase of 12 million on last year,…
Death of the desktop? Tech-savvy Brits shun desktop PCs and DVD players for smart devices
British shoppers are turning away from desktop PCs British shoppers are shunning desktop PCs and DVD players in favour of smart televisions and smart watches, according to figures from regulator Ofcom. Less than a third of homes now have a desktop PC, with consumers increasingly turning to smart technology, according…