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E-tailers learn a lesson -- the hard way
News A well-worn radio spot by a New York haberdasher proclaims that an educated consumer is the best customer -- but it's an advertising tag line that's likely to haunt e-tailers this holiday shopping season.
[December 15, 1999, 9:01]
E-tailers looking at a bumper Christmas
News Web spending looks set to continue apace, with analysts predicting that European consumers will give e-tailers some Christmas cheer. Online sales doubled last year to nearly £40bn, according to the government.
[November 22, 2004, 15:15]
E-tailers creak under Christmas rush
News Some of the UK's leading e-tailers are failing to cope with the seasonal rush, with the Web sites of CD-Wow, Currys, Debenhams and Dixons all straining under the pressure. E-commerce is transforming business around the globe.
[December 9, 2002, 12:51]
Over half of UK e-tailers breaking law
News The study found less than half -- 44 percent -- of UK e-tailers complied with basic recommendations of the Data Protection Act such as giving customers information about how their registration details might be passed on to other parties.
[April 4, 2001, 15:14]
Online price deflation threatens e-tailers
News A day before the Trading Standards Institute released its damning report on Internet shopping, UK online consumer price index Goldfish ePI said "Clicks and mortar" retailers are pushing cash strapped e-tailers further into bankruptcy.
[October 12, 2000, 8:15]
E-tailers risk breaking new law
News UK businesses who have failed to act on new e-commerce regulations that come into force on Wednesday could find themselves open to prosecution unless they take urgent steps to change their online operations.
[August 21, 2002, 13:32]
Poor performance 'cost e-tailers £300m' over Christmas
News Site Confidence, a UK Web monitoring company, analysed 35 shopping Web sites throughout December, which is traditionally the busiest period for both online and offline retailers, and estimates that UK e-retailers could have generated 10 percent...
[January 15, 2004, 16:25]
E-tailers face new rules, but same holiday rush
News A recent report from the US department of commerce found that e-commerce sales rose 1.2 percent in the first quarter of the year -- modest growth to be sure, but impressive in a quarter that's generally slow for retail.
[July 10, 2000, 14:32]
Software magic for e-tailers
News IBM, one of the largest players in the e-commerce software field, unveiled MerchantReach on 1 August for retailers that want to compile customer information from their stores and Web sites. The problem that IBM and other software companies are...
[August 14, 2001, 15:39]
E-tailers missing out on teen sales
News Darryl Lewis is an e-commerce marketer's nightmare. said Jim Johnson, chief operating officer of New York-based teen site and e-commerce shop Alloy. When you look at sites popular among teenagers, e-commerce sites are not top on the list -- or...
[July 4, 2002, 12:15]
Online sales more fulfilling this year
News E-tailers are demonstrating that they've learned from last year's mistakes, this year giving shoppers a 92 percent chance of success with their Web orders, according to a new study. E-tailers are being very careful to make sure consumers are more...
[December 18, 2000, 9:21]
Which? to end e-commerce scheme
News Web Trader scheme -- a voluntary, consumer-focused code of practice for e-tailers in the UK -- is to close at the end of the month. Web Trader was launched in July 1999 to promote consumer confidence in online shopping by providing an independent...
[January 6, 2003, 16:15]
London voted e-business capital of Europe
News British e-tailers are the most confident in Europe, with London emerging as the e-business capital of Europe, according to a report published by the Industrial Research Bureau on Wednesday. Over 86 percent of British e-tailers expect online sales...
[April 26, 2001, 7:08]
Tech purchases set to drive Christmas e-shopping
News Christmas is coming -- and the only thing that's looking like getting fat are e-tailers' bank balances. Electronics are proving a popular online purchase, as e-tailers seek to get one over on their bricks and mortar equivalents by offering...
[November 26, 2003, 8:50]
China opens up to e-tail
News On 16 March, businesses outside China will be able to register .cn domain names for the first time ever -- providing Western e-tailers the opportunity to gain access to the country's vast and rapidly growing online population.
[March 11, 2003, 9:03]
The Day Ahead: Many more Value Americas to come
News It was among the first e-tailers to signal problems ahead with a restructuring in December 1999. Yes, there are Internet companies, even e-tailers, that may be worth your time. For the record, Value America said it is transitioning to sell its back...
[August 15, 2000, 11:57]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com woes dash Amazon's revenue hopes
News Since Amazon's margins are generally thin, the company planned to have e-tailers such as Drugstore.com pay lofty sums to gain access to Amazon's customers. and America Online cushioned the dot-com woes with big offline partners, Amazon focused on...
[July 27, 2000, 11:58]
E-Christmas may not live up to promise
News A survey by BMRB (British Market Research Bureau) predicts it will be an equally merry Christmas for UK e-tailers, with up to eight million people shopping online in the run-up to Christmas. Arnbjerg is also not convinced UK e-tailers are ready for...
[November 15, 1999, 16:39]
Net payment firm guarantees against online fraud
News Chargebacks -- where shoppers claim back money from e-tailers either as a result of fraud or bad service -- are used by Internet payment companies as a monitor of online fraud and represent just 0.004 percent of all payments processed by WorldPay.
[December 12, 2000, 11:00]
Watered down EC Directive
News The sanctions originally proposed for failure to comply with these requirements appear to have been tempered in response to lobbying by e-tailers. In particular, some of the sanctions for non-compliance have been watered down in response to...
[September 26, 2002, 10:27]
