holiday shoppers
RSS holiday shoppersBritain's £28m Xmas shopping lunchtime
News While high street shoppers are looking to trim back their Christmas shopping, retailers will at least get some cheer from a moderate rise in web spending as Britons flock online to spend millions in their... [12 Nov 2008]
Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers
Leader Many online shoppers had the convenience of buying goods at home offset by having to queue at postal depots to recover the goods they bought. Perhaps the dot-coms have more to lose if online shoppers... [02 Jan 2008]
Record online sales in November
News Online shoppers spent a record £5.4bn last month, underlining the steady growth in retailing via the internet over the holiday period. The researchers believe the growth rate is due to... [20 Dec 2007]
Xmas shoppers making merry in cyberspace
News A recent forecast by market research company Forrester, predicted more than 70 per cent of UK web users will shop online, each spending an average of more than €700 during the holiday shopping season. [17 Dec 2007]
UK to lead Xmas online shopping spree
News The UK will be Europe's biggest market for online shopping in the run up to Christmas with 27 million shoppers expected to generate €20bn in sales. More than 70 per cent of UK web users are expected to shop online,... [24 Oct 2007]
"Spoilt" online shoppers want more from high street
News Shoppers have been "spoilt" by their experiences online and are now expecting the same services on the high street. In the past few years, online retailing has steadily increased its market share of revenues over the... [29 Aug 2007]
Shops gearing up for Vista retail launch
News CompUSA plans to keep its stores open past midnight on 30 January so shoppers can get the new operating system as soon as it goes on sale. While the new operating system didn't arrive in time for last year's... [23 Jan 2007]
Online shoppers went bling in 2006
News Online shoppers spent more and ordered later during the 2006 holiday season, according to new statistics. Many online retailers extended their guaranteed shipping date (the last date eligible for an item... [04 Jan 2007]
Leader: All the Christmas stories in one place
Leader Shoppers warned about the dangers of PCs under the Christmas tree The notion is that every antivirus company wants to warn shoppers that PCs which have sat on the shelves for weeks or months won't have... [19 Dec 2005]
Merry e-Christmas on the way?
News Holiday ecommerce sales are expected to further accelerate this week because shoppers tend to spend more time online during the weekdays than they do on weekends, when they can leisurely stroll through... [29 Nov 2005]
Xbox shortage hits Microsoft
News Xbox shoppers are still likely to have an easier time, however, than those in quest of Sony's new PlayStation Portable handheld game player. Microsoft posted better-than-expected Xbox hardware sales over the 2004... [22 Mar 2005]
Amazon celebrates 'best Christmas ever'
News Showing a mature approach to booting up those new PCs on Christmas morning, UK shoppers made Norton Internet Security 2005 their top-selling item of software. At the peak of the holiday shopping season... [04 Jan 2005]
Christmas 2004 a merry one for online retailers
News Sales of goods on the internet during the holiday season jumped to $8.8bn in the US, a 24 per cent increase over last year, according to internet service provider VeriSign. The data, culled from VeriSign's online payment... [31 Dec 2004]
Sony: 'Now we're out of PS2s too…'
News That's the message from Sony, which confirmed on Tuesday what a growing number of Christmas shoppers and eBay bargainers already knew - the company's PlayStation 2 video game console is in short supply at many retailers. [01 Dec 2004]
Online tills set for $21bn rush
News Over half of online holiday shoppers say they will use the web to get gift ideas or to seek better prices," Patti Freeman Evans, a JupiterResearch retail analyst, said in a statement. Online retail sales... [02 Nov 2004]
