Travel

French retail figures tripled in year

Two percent of visitors to retail sites – 700,000 people – made online purchases in 1999, and numbers of visitors to e-commerce sites have doubled in the past six months alone. The trends are attributed to the increase in new sites and improved promotion. Average promotion budgets for French retail sites have doubled from less … [Read more…]

Security issues deter shoppers

Less than one third of the 15m British internet users have purchased online. Fifty percent of interviewees were unhappy at the prospect of using their credit card for internet shopping and only 18% would trust online vendors with their credit card details. The survey found the British keen to research travel, books, CDs and computer … [Read more…]