IMRG e-retail sales index: web eats into high street
The IMRG Capgemini e-retail sales index has revealed shoppers are turning to find bargains online.
21 July 2008
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The rise of online sales for the first six months of 2008 up 24% has started
to eat into high street sales. These new figures were reported following the release
of the new IMRG Capgemini e-retail sales index.
The report also predicated that between 30% and 50% of all retail will be online in the next five years.
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Further coverage:
- The Retail Bulletin reports on the increase of online spending regardless of the credit crunch.
- The Scotsman reports on online sales soaring.
- Online shopping increases by 38%, Channel 4 reports.
- Mike Petevinos speaks to BBC News on the rise of internet shopping.
- The Mirror reports on how online retail spending is up by 38 percent.
- The FT reports on the buoyant internet shopping sales.
- The Guardian reports on how the boom in online sales shopper desert the high street.
- Mike Petevinos speaks to The Daily Telegraph on how Mothercare has embraced their online shopping channel.
- Shoppers hunt online bargains, The Daily Telegraph reports.
- The Independent reports on how shoppers are bucking the gloom.
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