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TV Beats PC For Home Shopping
News UK consumers would favour the television over the PC for home shopping services, according to the Pace Report on interactive television. The survey of 1004 consumers, carried out by Gallop, found that 42 percent would feel more comfortable using...
[October 11, 1999, 16:31]
News Burst: Consumers Favour The TV Over The PC For Home Shopping
News Carried out by Gallop, the survey of 1004 consumers found that 42 percent would feel more comfortable using interactive television for home shopping, compared with 26 percent who said they would prefer to use a PC.
[October 11, 1999, 13:43]
Tesco Online To Create 7,000 Jobs
News Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket, says it will triple the number of stores offering its home-shopping service and expand its non-food-related e-commerce businesses, creating 7,000 jobs in the process.
[January 19, 2000, 12:01]
Supermarket Axes Online Store
News Struggling frozen food supermarket chain Iceland is to close its loss-making online and telephone home shopping service later this month. The Web and phone shopping service will close from 23 April and is expected to lead to the loss of around 100...
[April 1, 2005, 17:15]
Tesco.com Takes 60,000 Orders A Week
News I'd much prefer to do my food shopping from home rather than dragging my three children down supermarket aisles," said Mike McNamara, tesco.com's chief technology officer. UK supermarket Tesco is taking 60,000 online grocery orders a week making it...
[October 10, 2000, 12:56]
A Year Ago: Tesco Online To Create 7,000 Jobs
News Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket, says it will triple the number of stores offering its home-shopping service and expand its non-food-related e-commerce businesses, creating 7,000 jobs in the process.
[January 19, 2001, 6:03]
Consumer Online: Web Retailers Need To Get The Logistics Right
News According to Harris, Web based shopping is currently worth only 2% of the total home shopping spend in the UK. It will not have been missed by Paul Harris and others attending the conference that Germany has a huge catalogue-based home shopping...
[October 28, 1998, 9:20]
E-grocers Make Another Go At Home Delivery
News With Tesco's know-how and the Safeway brand, we have the perfect combination to bring grocery home-shopping to the world's largest market," Tesco executives said in a statement last month. When a shopper walks into one of Tesco's 900 stores in...
[February 5, 2002, 6:40]
Lycos-USA: No E-commerce Home Run
News The theory behind the deal is simple: USA Networks has holdings whose expertise is selling, foremost among them, Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch (Nasdaq:TMCS) and the Home Shopping Network. While Ticketmaster could realise an immediate synergy with...
[February 10, 1999, 10:22]
Jesse Berst: Make Money From Your Personal Home Page
News I'm not talking about building an e-commerce site; I'm talking about using one of the just-add-water storefronts to add a shopping option to your home page. With services available today, you can add a shopping option for free and recommend model...
[September 28, 1999, 9:56]
Broadband Lures Tesco.com Into Korean Expansion
News Tesco.com is to extend its online shopping service to South Korea -- the country with the highest penetration of broadband in the world -- this winter. Webvan was one of our biggest critics, and insisted that warehousing was the best way forward...
[August 13, 2001, 16:28]
One Pound In Six Now Spent Online
News A spokesperson for IMRG told ZDNet.co.uk that the spread of home connectivity across the UK had been a major factor in the growth of online shopping. The amount of money spent in the UK on internet shopping last year was more than 50 percent higher...
[January 18, 2008, 14:56]
Tomorrow's Tech At Microsoft Innovation Day
News When unpacking shopping, you can scan items against the screen (using RFID) which notes which items are being brought in. You can also interact with the Smart Board by using the touchscreen to write the names of items you want to check are in the...
[December 6, 2007, 16:30]
The Day Ahead: Will Amazon Hit Its Sales Targets?
News Consumer-oriented tech giants such as Gateway and Apple have issued profit warnings, citing a slow holiday shopping season. The Nielsen//NetRatings Holiday E-Commerce Index shows that the shopping season got off to a slow start, but has picked up...
[December 18, 2000, 13:37]
Jane Wakefield: Get Real Bill, You're Not Cool
News Now these are possibly the three shops I would avoid on an average trip down the high-street so the thought of shopping in them from home is, frankly, unappealing. Shopping, banking and email through the TV is, so far, something of an unknown and...
[October 15, 1999, 10:51]
British Gas Switches On Email Billing
News A survey of over 1,000 people, commissioned by British Gas, found that many are using the Internet at work for personal reasons with 41 percent checking bank balances, 39 per cent shopping for gifts, 37 per cent booking holidays and 28 per cent...
[October 29, 2003, 16:45]
Internet Advertising Changes Gears
News In the background, it monitors Web surfing behaviour and uses that data to deliver ads when customers are shopping or using a search engine. Visiting the jewellery site Ice.com delivers a window for another shopping site.
[March 31, 2004, 12:35]
Freebox To Open Phone Lines Monday
News The only feature about which Freebox will give details is a DVD-based shopping service, which it touts as "a whole new medium". The DVD will simulate a broadband experience by including shopping sites chock full of images, video and 3D content, but...
[October 6, 2000, 14:09]
Jesse Berst: MSN Takes Another Swing At Web
News Search will be integrated with a new shopping service in November. Microsoft boasts it will have the largest database of products and services on the Web, plus smart tools and true one-stop shopping. So bad he used the legal drug androstendione...
[September 24, 1999, 9:57]
Jane Wakefield: On Sexism And Bugs
News The idea of "chatting" to other women about issues that affect me is one of the biggest turn-offs I can imagine and if I want to go Net shopping I will go to specific shopping sites. Nowadays such books are banned from schools and teachers spend...
[December 20, 1999, 9:14]
