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In our pandemic-altered 2020, it’s felt essential for many of us to be able to buy almost anything from home. One thousand varieties of shower curtains at our fingertips!
But being a truly informed online shopper now requires us to have an advanced degree in internet scams and the business of how products are marketed, sold and transported around the world.
This is a pattern with online news, entertainment, merchandise and more. Seemingly endless choice is amazing, but it has also introduced…
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Delivering faster shopping experiences for consumers everywhere
With more than 800,000 merchants on Shopify, and over 218 million shoppers purchasing from their stores last year, we have always been obsessed with performance to ensure the best experience possible for both consumers and our merchants. From the very start, we made sure that our online store themes were optimized for speed so that merchants could offer the fastest shopping experience but we knew that there were always more ways to make performance gains. Faster stores mean better shopping experiences and more sales, so we’re excited to showcase the latest improvements to our platform that will make Shopify stores…
Half of Saudi consumers shop online at least every week
LONDON: Saudi spending habits have been revealed in research showing half of the Kingdom’s consumers shop online at least every week.
Some 24 percent of those surveyed shop online two to three times a week while 11 percent shop daily, according to research from Podean.
Online shopping has boomed this year as pandemic-related lockdowns have closed shops. Now some online retailers fear delays in the run up to the busy year-end festive period as delivery companies become overloaded.
“The pandemic rapidly accelerated the already fast growing adoption of online shopping in Saudi Arabia, with consumers who were slow to adopt…
76% of Croatian online buyers shop abroad
Croatia has a little problem. It seems domestic online retailers aren’t as popular as retailers from abroad: three quarters of Croatian online buyers shop in foreign web shops. It’s not that consumers don’t have faith in local retailers, as 83% of Croatians trust such stores. It may have to do more with the lack of marketing and a limited online product range.…
COVID’s impact on online shopping
March 2022 marks roughly two years since the coronavirus pandemic spurred many US consumers to go into lockdown mode as COVID-19 spread rapidly throughout the country. Many consumers flocked online to buy their essential items, pushing ecommerce sales to new heights.
Ecommerce was growing fast before COVID-19 hit. But the pandemic pushed even more US consumers online and pushed more consumers to spend more online and more frequently. Digital Commerce 360 estimates the pandemic contributed an extra $218.53 billion to ecommerce’s bottom line over the past two years. In 2020, the coronavirus added $102.08 billion in US ecommerce, and it…
Holiday shopping season is starting earlier than ever
As shoppers prepare to welcome Halloween, the Black Friday deals have already arrived.
Major retailers including Target, Best Buy and Walmart are offering Black Friday prices at the same time as Amazon Prime Day on Oct. 13 and 14, the e-commerce company’s two-day shopping event.
“Prime Day is a shopping holiday,” said Best Buy CEO Corie Barry in an interview with NBC News. “That means lots of people are looking for great deals during the shopping holiday and we feel like it’s really important for us to play a role.”
Best Buy announced on Thursday dozens of deals on Oct.…
Online shopping across the EU to be easier from 3 December | News
Consumers will have wider and easier cross-border access to products, hotel bookings, car rentals, music festivals or leisure park tickets in the EU, under new rules addressing unjustified geo-blocking. The legislation approved by the European Parliament in February 2018 begins applying on Monday, 3 December.
Róża Thun (EPP, PL), who steered this legislation through Parliament, said: “This is another step forward in creating a true single market where all consumers are treated equally. When purchasing products abroad, all of us will now have the right to be treated like local consumers.
We can no longer be denied access to the…
Global e-commerce jumps to $26.7 trillion, fueled by COVID-19
According to UN trade and development experts UNCTAD, the e-commerce sector saw a “dramatic” rise in its share of all retail sales, from 16 per cent to 19 per cent in 2020.
The digital retail economy experienced the most growth in the Republic of Korea, where internet sales increased from around one in five transactions in 2019, to more than one in four last year.
“These statistics show the growing importance of online activities”, said Shamika Sirimanne, UNCTAD’s director of technology and logistics. “They also point to the need for countries, especially developing ones, to have such information as they…