Tag: Electronic Retailing

Almost three-quarters of US consumers surveyed plan to take advantage of free shipping when spending in the 2017 holiday season, while the vast majority of them consider free shipping is more important than fast shipping (88% vs. 12%). When respondents were asked to determine what “free shipping” means for them, most of them (45%) said that …

The majority of US surveyed consumers (72%) plan to take advantage of free shipping when spending during the 2017 holiday shopping season. Easy returns of purchases and price matching will be taken as advantages by only 44% and 42% of US consumers.

Most of all American shoppers shop from large retailers with a rate of 74% and marketplaces with 54%, followed by 44% do so at webstores and 36% at category-spec. But there are some features that American online shoppers would like to see more from online stores. Images (78%) & reviews of products (69%) and side-by-side …

Purchasing is the result of marketing. All generations during the purchasing process value discounts (92%) and brand reputation (90%) as the top factors influence purchasing. Followed by the ease of transactions (88%), ease of buying online (74%), meeting the immediate needs (68%), brand loyalty (62%) and recommended products (45%).

The vast majority of Americans (93%) have done an online purchasing process in the last year. 80% reported that they’re purchasing something online monthly, 30% weekly and 5% daily. In terms of the purchase location and time, most of the online shoppers (43%) said they’ve made a purchase from the bed, 25% did so while …

46% of the sample consisted of 8,751 respondents surveyed in South Africa by Effective Measure have already shopped online. 66% of those online shoppers are shopping online mostly once every three months, while only 6% shop online at least once a week. In terms of the preference of devices, the vast majority of respondents (65%) prefer to shop …

Nearly half (47%) of internet users in the Middle East watch sports online according to a survey conducted by the Northwestern University in Qatar in 2017. In terms of the most popular sports websites in the GCC, “kooora.com” bumped out with over 3 million unique browsers (UBs) and over 85.2 million page views (PVs). This is followed …

In 2017, holiday shopping season accounts for more than $1 trillion and more than one-quarter of annual US retail sales. Expectations of online spending also exceed those of in-store spending for the first time (51% vs. 42% of shopping budget), after reaching parity in 2016. In terms of the devices used during the holiday shopping journey in …