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Online Christmas Shopping Soared In 2001
News More than 10 million Britons visited e-commerce Web sites over Christmas -- an increase of three million on the number of online shoppers in December 2000. This was an increase of nearly one million over the number of purchases made online during...
[January 24, 2002, 17:03]
Tech Purchases Set To Drive Christmas E-shopping
News Another e-tail sector that could be having a very merry Christmas is online food shopping, according to the analyst house. Christmas is coming -- and the only thing that's looking like getting fat are e-tailers' bank balances.
[November 26, 2003, 8:50]
Spam Fears Dampen Online Christmas Shopping
News Nearly half of consumers are planning to limit their online shopping during the Christmas season due to fears related to privacy, with smaller online retailers particularly affected, according to a survey commissioned by nonprofit certification...
[December 1, 2003, 16:55]
E-Christmas: How Many Shopping Days Left?
News Ironically, none of the e-shops ZDNet UK News spoke to could come up with a solution to extending the window for Christmas shopping simply because the vast majority of them rely on that technologically barren institution we all love to loathe.the...
[December 2, 1998, 14:24]
Christmas Shopping Crush Stalls Walmart.com
News Online shopping is typically heaviest in December, and Black Friday — a term that refers to the day after Thanksgiving, also one of the biggest shopping days of the year — has sometimes been a good indicator of whether online retail stores are...
[November 27, 2006, 8:35]
Amazon.com Blackouts Hit Christmas Shopping
News Its stock took a brief nosedive after the company reported lower-than-expected sales during the Thanksgiving weekend, which is considered the busiest shopping time of the year. Nevertheless, as retailers push sales through their Web sites, it's no...
[December 7, 2004, 7:45]
Beeb.com Puts On Christmas Wrappings
News The BBC's commercial online arm, beeb.com, has relaunched with a new look for the Christmas season, focusing, not surprisingly, on shopping. The site also includes a new Christmas-shopping section including gift tips -- mostly BBC books and video...
[November 25, 1999, 12:01]
Europe's Christmas E-spending To Surge
News The technology downturn will not stop Europe's Internet users from shopping online in the run up to Christmas 2001, with analysts predicting a significant increase in spending compared to a year ago. Europe's Internet users will spend over £6bn...
[October 23, 2001, 16:04]
E-shoppers Put Faith In High Street Names
News Traditional high street retailers will take a big slice of this Christmas's Internet shopping bonanza, according to the results of a survey from Directline.com. UK consumers will spend £1.3bn shopping online this Christmas, according to a recent...
[December 2, 2003, 12:45]
E-Christmas May Not Live Up To Promise
News The attitude to Christmas shopping in the US is different with a lot of Americans regarding it as a hassle, with relatives to buy for that live a long way away, et cetera. Whereas Europeans still enjoy the experience of Christmas shopping...
[November 15, 1999, 16:39]
Poor Performance 'cost E-tailers £300m' Over Christmas
News The company monitored the Web sites of 10 of the UK's biggest and best retailers, and found many were failing to take all the hassle out of Christmas shopping. Internet retailers missed out on an estimated £300m of trade over the Christmas period...
[January 15, 2004, 16:25]
UK Heading For A Record E-Christmas
News Online retailers can look forward to a particularly merry Christmas, with latest research predicting a record breaking season for UK Internet shopping. This is twenty times as much as was spent online for Christmas in 2000.
[November 24, 2005, 16:40]
Christmas Online Spending To Break £5bn Barrier
News And Monday 3 December is predicted to be the most popular day for online shopping on the record-breaking run up to Christmas. Sandra Quinn, director of communications at Apacs, said the internet takes the stress out of Christmas shopping but it's...
[December 3, 2007, 11:22]
E-Christmas: Online With Santa Looking Good...
News Interest in e-commerce, coupled with the sheer volume of people going online, means, in theory at least, that Christmas 1998 stands to be an important time for electronic commerce. Inteco states that the development of online retail depends not...
[December 2, 1998, 13:55]
Websites Deliver Christmas Woe
News Empirix monitored the websites of 10 of the UK's biggest and best retailers, and found many were failing to take all the hassle out of Christmas shopping. While e-tailers will doubtless be counting their takings from bumper Christmas sales well...
[December 22, 2003, 10:45]
Yahoo! Pulls Remote Village From Wilderness
News to install a Christmas shopping station in the community's only pub, The Old Forge, which itself is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most remote pub in mainland Britain. The inhabitants of mainland Britain's most remote village have...
[December 2, 2002, 14:33]
Online Holiday Sales Slow In US
News The highest traffic day this Christmas season was 12 December. Many sites stopped guaranteeing Christmas delivery around the middle of the month. It looks like the online shopping spree may be over -- at least for the holiday season.
[December 23, 1999, 10:34]
Merry Christmas! E-commerce Set To Soar
News The research, commissioned by ISP and portal service Freeserve, found that 71 percent of those surveyed found online shopping appealing for Christmas purchases such as presents and food and drink. One-third of respondents said that the biggest...
[November 15, 1999, 12:52]
Jane Wakefield: Dreaming Of An E-Christmas
News While the endless surveys about e-commerce suggest the UK could be gearing up for its first e-Christmas, I am not convinced our shopping patterns have radically changed as a result of the Net. There is a lot to be said for the personal touch and I...
[November 26, 1999, 15:37]
US Online Shopping Passes £7bn
News But while the festive season gets people focussed more on shopping, as Christmas gets closer, people spend more time out of the house or the office, and less time online. In the UK, more than seven percent fewer Christmas shoppers visited major...
[December 24, 2002, 8:30]
