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Fashion retailers scramble to adapt as shoppers ditch their suits and frocks
Retail’s ‘golden quarter’ – the three-month run-up to Christmas and new year – is traditionally a time when fashion retailers cash in. Shoppers embrace the new season’s lines, snapping up autumn and winter staples, and are often prepared to splash out on a new outfit for parties and events during […]
Chinese shoppers drive online retail with ‘revenge spending’
SHANGHAI — Homemaker Wu Ting rarely goes out these days to buy groceries in Shanghai’s markets and malls. During the city’s nearly four-week coronavirus lockdown, she got used to ordering ingredients online for her family of three, something she had never tried before. Although Shanghai stores began to gradually reopen […]
Chinese shoppers push online retail to new heights
SHANGHAI — Homemaker Wu Ting rarely goes out these days to buy groceries in Shanghai’s markets and malls. During the city’s nearly four-week coronavirus lockdown, she got used to ordering ingredients online for her family of three, something she had never tried before. Although Shanghai stores began to gradually reopen […]
Woe for retailers as half of shoppers could stay at home
“Consumer spending has dropped off a cliff in the last three months and with continued uncertainty around the economy and job security, it’s maybe unsurprising that around 40pc of the public say that they’re going to spend less than they did before lockdown.” The survey also offered worrying signals for […]
Instacart starts self-serve ad platform to connect brands with shoppers
Dive Brief: Online grocery company Instacart launched a self-serve advertising platform that lets marketers promote products in search results. Brands can choose the products they want to promote, set a budget and pay when users engage with those products, per the Instacart Ads website. Procter & Gamble, Unilever and PepsiCo are […]
Thai shoppers awaken to new retail landscape as pandemic ebbs
BANGKOK — Retail in Thailand is coming back to life as businesses are allowed to reopen after daily tallies of coronavirus cases have not exceeded single digits for weeks. But consumers are awakening to a new service industry, one transformed by the strict preventive measures that were put in place […]
Shoppers prefer brands over private labels in current economic slowdown, study says
Dive Brief: American consumers are reducing their total spending, with 55% cutting spending by 10%-20%, 25% cutting by 30%-40% and 20% cutting spending in half, per the results of new survey of more than 1,000 consumers by Survata that was shared on the company’s blog. Despite cutbacks, surveyed consumers said […]
Retailers go Awol as shoppers struggle with missing or late deliveries
Aleksandra Karpiuk, 28, has been having problems organising deliveries for the online vintage clothing shop she runs. “I’ve had parcels lost and others are taking more than a week to be delivered when usually it should take two days. My business has been really affected since the outbreak and lost […]
‘Stop buying bottled water during coronavirus lockdown’, online shoppers urged
Shoppers ordering groceries online should avoid buying bottled water and drink from the tap instead, campaigners and supermarket staff have urged. They fear it is taking up precious space in vans and leaving supermarkets less able to serve the elderly and vulnerable. Environmental group, Friends of the Earth, has called for a widespread ban on bottled water during the coronavirus crisis, to enable more homes […]