E-tail sales remain immune to downturn
The Capgemini and IMRG e-Retail Index showed that online retail is proving resilient to the credit crunch.
18 July 2008
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Online sales now account for 17p in every £1 consumers spend, which is roughly equivalent to half of all supermarket sales and greater than all retail sales for clothing and footwear.
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Further coverage:
- The Retail Bulletin reports on how online spending is increasing regardless of the credit crunch.
- Silicon.com reports on online retailing taking 20p in every shoppers pound.
- Sky News reports on how online shopping now accounts for almost a fifth of all retail spend.
- The Scotsman reports on soaring online sales.
- Mike Petevinos speaks to BBC News on the rise of internet shopping.
- The Mirror reports on how online retail shopping is up by 38 percent.
- The FT reports on the buoyant internet shopping sales.
- Shoppers hunt online bargains, The Daily Telegraph reports.
- The Independent reports how online shoppers are bucking the gloom.
- The Guardian reports boom in online sales as shoppers desert high street.
- The Mirror reports on how online retail spending is up by 38 percent.
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