Internet shopping sales buoyant
According to Capgemini and the IMRG, the surge in e-commerce showed online sales were resilient to tough high street trading conditions.
18 July 2008
Publication
New figures from the Capgemini IMRG e-Retail sales index revealed that shoppers
spent 38% more online during the first 6 months of 2008 than the same period last
year.
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Further coverage:
- The Retail Bulletin reports on the increase of online spending regardless of the credit crunch.
- Computer Weekly reports on how the web is eating into high street sales.
- Online retail takes 20p of the shoppers pound, Silicon.com
- Sky News reports on online shopping accounting for a fifth of all retail spend.
- The Scotsman reports on online sales soaring.
- Online shopping ‘up 38%’ on 2007, Channel 4 reports.
- The Mirror reports on how online retail spending is up by 38 percent.
- 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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