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"The convenience of online shopping and the diversity of available products continue to drive consumers onto the Internet to meet their gift-giving needs," said Scott Ferber, chief executive officer of Advertising.com.
Online shopping is not a new idea, nor is speculation about how it would impact retailers and space demand. What is new is how quickly it is going to impact retail property. Until recently it was an over the horizon issue but now it is in view. The rapid diffusion of internet in our daily life has compressed the time for merchants to change how and where they sell.
At the start of the millennium, just two years away, real property investors and lenders will confront a radically changing demand milieu for retail space brought about by the popularization of online buying. Strategically and financially having an online presence makes sense for retailers. This will require restructuring the sales channel away from location based selling.
Stores will not disappear but merchants will question their preeminence as the most productive sales channel.
Recognizing the need for an online presence will be an epiphany for many retailers and cause them to question their leasing strategy. A very different leasing strategy will emerge.
As a result of the growing importance of online shopping, the environments in which consumers make purchase decisions are increasingly artificial, rather than physical in nature.
Consumers clearly value their time. In fact, 42 percent of Internet users agree that they are always looking for ways to spend less time grocery shopping. However, only 11 percent would be willing to pay more for products or services that save them time. Therefore, online grocery offers, general merchandise have to be competitive with supermarket prices.
When online commerce was new, it was almost taken as received wisdom that people would shop online because it would provide a "perfect market." The idea was that shopping online would create a place where people could always get the best price.
That market has essentially come to pass, but that's not the reason people are shopping online. Instead, in the most time-starved of all eras, people are shopping online because it's quick and convenient, if you are looking to buy gifts, general merchandise, beauty products, candles, electronics, or anything else you can all find it easy and quick.
Even in the online world there is no such thing as the "rational consumer" that economists love so dearly. Instead people seek value from their shopping and that value is delivered in a variety of forms. The relationship of price to benefit is, indeed, one of those forms, but there are others. There is convenience. There is ease. There is reliability and service.
If you do provide online ordering or shopping from a Web site, make sure that you pay attention to all of the dimensions of value. Make things as easy, convenient, and safe as possible in addition to as inexpensive as possible.
The growing importance of online shopping is most apparent in buy travel.
While the importance of tourism shopping is widely recognized and tourism destinations are aware of the contributions of shopping, there is still little known about the actual behaviour and expectations of tourists, and what influences their preferences and behaviours. Previous research findings consistently indicate that certain associations exist among age, gender and trip typology or trip activity profiles with tourists’ shopping behaviors and preferences.
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Five new shops offer latest must-haves
Admit it, you like being clued in. That's why you keep up the fashion mag subscriptions and stayed up to watch what Nicole Kidman wore on Jay Leno the other night. To help with I-need-to-know-the-latest-and-coolest cause, we give you five new local places with buzzworthy appeal
One of the biggest benefits of the DVD format's popularity is that it makes holiday shopping a lot easier.
DVD players are now as ubiquitous as the lowly VCR used to be, and who doesn't love receiving a shiny new DVD to feed their machine?
