UK Web Fulfilment - Bumper Christmas

[dburdon]

I had a delivery today from a courier who does the fulfilment (pick, pack, delivery) for many online retailers. He claims, he's never been so busy and is deliverign twice the volume of last Christmas.

[ctabuk]

Yes, there is a lot of money about, I thought the demand for lending would drop this year, but it's up by about £12million on last year(my bizz) and the lenders are desperate to get funds out. I find it hard to reconcile our low inflation figures with disposable cash, I think in real terms wages have outpaced inflation while consumables have stayed static and in white goods and IT sales are well and truly up.

[dburdon]

The monthly Hitwise survey, out today, shows a 14% increase in UK online purchases over November 2004. Maybe the delivery courier is ahead of the market.