Doors reopened at the Platypus shoe store in the Melbourne Central shopping center last week, but it wasn’t the first time staff had returned to work since it closed in late March.
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Australia Post says online shopping has increased by 80 per cent compared to last year
Footwear retailer Accent Group operated ‘dark stores’, fulfilling online orders while shops were closed to customers
“One in three of the consumers we surveyed said that they would continue this behavior,” says Monica Wegner from Boston Consulting Group
Staff had been working behind closed doors to fulfill online orders using the…
According to a recent study on generational trends in consumer behavior by Jungle Scout, a platform for e-commerce sellers, Gen Z consumers have continued to buy online via varying social media platforms despite the rise in inflation. The study included a survey of more than 1,000 consumers in the US, which found that 32 percent of Gen Z customers shop online at least once daily.
Forty-three percent of Gen Z say they open TikTok first to start their search for products online, which is higher than search engines such as Google. Compared to last year, across all generations, the number…
Every second online shopper in India is a new shopper while one-third of online purchasing in the country takes place at night with the prime time being from 8pm to 11pm everyday, found a survey by data measurement and analytics firm Nielsen.
The results show that the period between 8pm to 11pm, considered to be family time, is when decision-making on products take place at homes. “The e-commerce platforms should target this time effectively, irrespective of the big sale or daily sales. It is such that a person would have shortlisted some of the items he or she wants to…
Online shopping has exploded during the current pandemic, as have the options to pay for purchases.
In addition to the usual debit and credit options that pop up when a customer’s about to buy, a number of services have been set up shop in Canada recently that give customers the option to pay in installations — spreading the cost of shopping trips over multiple payments.
While they all work a little differently, services such as Afterpay, PayBright, Sezzle, Klarna, QuadPay, Splitit, Affirm and others give users the option to pay for purchases over time. Most have lower rates and fees…
Fans using our online shop from Friday afternoon onwards will notice a difference when reaching the Checkout page.
For all UK orders we will no longer use Royal Mail and will instead be offering two choices for postage, depending on how quickly the order is required.
There will be a Standard Delivery option through EVRi, offering a fully tracked service taking a maximum of three working days and a Premium Delivery option which offers a next working day delivery with DHL. The Standard Delivery will be priced at £3.95 and the Premium Delivery at £6.50.
Head of Retail Mat…