“Retail needs to be fun and entertaining, not a chore. And mobile phones can allow you to do that,” … [+] says Bhrugu Pange, managing director of technology services at AArete.
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Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan famously said, “The medium is the message,” in his seminal book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published in 1964. Back then the medium were television, movies, books, newspapers and magazines. He couldn’t have imagined the explosion of mediums that carry the message in the digital age.
Today the ultimate “extension of man” is the mobile device. If mobile is the medium, then mobile…
Commissioned by delivery specialist Hermes, the 2014 Parcel Deliveries Usage and Attitude Survey polled 2,000 UK consumers and 1,000 each in France and Germany aged 18 and above who had shopped online three or more times in the past three months.
Around 27% of British consumers said they had shopped online in that time, compared with 14% of the French and 10% of the Germans.
Conducted by market research firm BDRC Continental between May and June, the survey also found 42% of British shoppers are planning to increase their online shopping over the next year, compared with 30% in France…
Japan’s first online “MOOMIN SHOP” in collaboration with Moomin Characters of Finland, the copyright holder of Moomin, will finally open at 3:1 on March 12st (Tuesday).This online shop has a wide range of products from Japan and overseas, including products that were very popular during the limited-time pre-opening in December last year.Moomin’s stuffed animals “Angry Face” and “Nervous Face”, which were sold out on the same day at the pre-opening, and “Hattifattener Glass Object” will be resold at the same time as the grand opening.In addition, we have a wide variety of items that can only be purchased here, such…
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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…
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…
CITRUS HEIGHTS (CBS13) — As e-commerce takes over the retail industry, malls across the country are at risk of closing up shops and many are struggling to survive.
On any given weekday if you walk around the parking lot at the Sunrise Mall, you’ll notice it’s mostly empty. The city says business is bad and has been for years now.
City leaders say it’s because everyone is shopping online and now Citrus Heights could be planning to redevelop the space.
Chris Ferguson is an avid “Sunrise Mall Walker.”
“Every day for 20 years,” she said.
She’s seen the mall grow…