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Online shopping tops £10bn

News Tesco, Sainsbury's and Ocado have seen good growth but if you are a Morrisons it will be difficult to persuade your high-street customers to shop with you online if they are already shopping with the other three.

Tags: online shopping, retail

[25 May 2007]

Online shopping safer than many think

News If you're being put off doing your Christmas shopping online over security concerns then think again - because it's far more likely you'll be a victim of physical theft on the high street than suffer fraud in the digital world.

Tags: card fraud, paypal, online fraud, verisign

[06 Nov 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Online shopping spree

Comment So rapid has been the growth in the last year that those offering online food shopping and home delivery in the UK have hit full capacity as demand exceeds supply. Well, shopping has always been a bit of a pain but add the increasing number of...

Tags: cochrane, festive, e-tail, peter cochrane

[16 Dec 2005]

<strong>Online</strong> <strong>shopping</strong> still not bringing in the crowds

Online shopping still not bringing in the crowds

News Datamonitor looked at the shopping habits of consumers in the US and Europe and also gauged their attitudes towards the web and ecommerce. Agnostics represent nine per cent and do use the net, but not for shopping.

[28 Jun 2001]

Online shopping up by 75 per cent

News Online shopping jumped in January, with sales reaching a record high of £4.5bn in the UK over the month.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Anthoula Madden, head of Capgemini's UK consumer products and retail team, said online growth is happening despite...

Tags: online, retail, capgemini, revenues

[22 Feb 2008]

OFT to probe online shopping

News A government watchdog is to investigate whether businesses are doing all they can to protect consumers from the dangers of shopping online. John Fingleton, chief executive of the OFT, said in a statement: "The internet's rapid evolution means that...

Tags: online trading

[02 May 2006]

Iceland warms to online shopping

News Frozen food chain Iceland, is set to launch a free online shopping service from October 4th this year. Iceland claims to be the only supermarket to offer 'true nationwide home shopping', with 97% coverage of Britain's population.

[07 Sep 1999]

Half of UK surfers did <strong>online</strong> Xmas <strong>shopping</strong>

Half of UK surfers did online Xmas shopping

News In the UK, web users expect their online shopping will double this year. Shoppers in the UK and the US were happier doing it online this year and plan more of the same next year. In the UK, shoppers gave the choice, range and condition of online...

[23 Jan 2004]

Xmas <strong>online</strong> <strong>shopping</strong> frenzy begins in earnest

Xmas online shopping frenzy begins in earnest

News Nielsen added that the holiday shopping season started the same week this year as last and despite fears about the economy is even stronger than in 2000. Online shoppers on both sides of the Atlantic have started a festive spending spree as...

[16 Nov 2001]

silicon.com e-tail survey: few <strong>shopping</strong> horrors <strong>online</strong> this Christmas

silicon.com e-tail survey: few shopping horrors online this Christmas

News Most viewers have enjoyed a successful online Christmas shopping experience so far this year, praising the order, delivery and customer service of most UK retail sites. One reader made his first online purchase this Christmas, ordering a DVD from...

[21 Dec 2000]

Asda weighs in to online shopping war

News An Asda spokeswoman said 157 out of the total 310 stores will offer online shopping by October next year, compared with just 91 at present, giving Asda a similar level of geographic coverage to Sainsbury's and Tesco.

Tags: tesco, internet, tesco.com, shopping

[06 Nov 2006]

Law firm warns employers over online Xmas shopping

News Companies should take precautions to protect their businesses as a growing numbers of staff turn to the Web for their Christmas shopping, according to Nicholas Moore, head of employment at law firm Osborne Clarke.

[08 Dec 1999]

NTL launches UK online shopping service

News The company claims it will be the first to offer shopping, banking and booking services in a single package. It's plans for a shopping channel developed by BSkyB won't go live until next year. Cable operator NTL has launched an online retail...

[07 Oct 1998]

Sytec's Customers Demanded Tools to Control Employees' Internet Use, Such As Visits to Pornographic Sites, Music Downloads and Online Shopping

whitepaper In 1999, SyTec's customers started asking for tools to control employees' Internet use, such as visits to pornographic sites, music downloads and online shopping. SyTec was founded by Mark Cavaliero and Sam Estridge to maintain computer networks...

Tags: spam and e-mail marketing

[24 Feb 2004]

£3bn <strong>online</strong> festive <strong>shopping</strong> frenzy predicted

£3bn online festive shopping frenzy predicted

News Online retail shopping in the UK is still rapidly growing and once again is set to provide a bumper Christmas for the UK's e-retailers," he said in a statement. Christmas shoppers are set to break web sales records with a £3bn online festive frenzy...

[28 Nov 2003]

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. The total European revenue from online shopping is expected to hit €51bn during the period from 1...

Tags: europe, uk, shopping, forrester

[24 Oct 2007]

Top 10 tips for safe <strong>online</strong> <strong>shopping</strong>

Top 10 tips for safe online shopping

News A leading e-tail body has today issued a list of top 10 tips to make you feel warm and cosy about shopping online. The Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) believes more people now want to buy goods via the web as they don't feel safe on the...

[23 Oct 2001]

Jini Network Technology Adds High Touch To Online Shopping

whitepaper Using Sun's innovative Jini and Java technologies, lightflow is adding a human dimension to online shopping through two-way multimedia streams (in development); text-chat, synchronized Web browsing; and other cutting-edge interaction and...

Tags: crm

[24 Feb 2004]

Training Store Aspires to Be the Biggest Online Shopping Mall for Training Products and Services

whitepaper The Training Store is an online, Web-based "Shopping mall" for training products and services. In the United States alone, some 20,000 training companies, representing numerous subject-matter niches, compete for awareness and business from their...

Tags: application servers

[19 Feb 2008]

Performance Testing for an Online Shopping Portal

whitepaper This company operates an online shopping portal which sees a large number of customers transacting through it every day. The company has a chain of over 800 stores in USA that sell domestic merchandise.

Tags: software engineering

[24 Feb 2008]

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