Now there is almost nothing left that you can’t buy entirely online. Autonation is the first to offer this service for buying a car completely over the internet. They are piloting a program that lets customers buy their car online in the Atlanta market with 14 dealerships.
Online Shopping Grows 30%
Online shopping continues to grow and 39 percent of adults reported making a purchase online at least monthly, versus 30 percent in 2005, a 30 percent increase over two years, according to a new study from icrossing, "How America Searches: Online Retail."
Yahoo Hacks New Shopping, Travel Products
The last Internal Hack Day at Yahoo, 24 hours of coding fun fueled by lots of pizza, has yielded a couple of new services that have been rolled out to their Travel and Shopping products.
Online Shopping And Father’s Day
U.S. consumers will spend $9.9 billion for Father’s Day, according to the National retail Federation’s "2007 Father’s Day Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey," from Bigresearch.
Father’s Day Online
TheFind Launches Shopping Search Engine for PayPal
TheFind.com, a discovery shopping search engine that debuted in 2006, has launched a shopping search engine that allows you to search for products being offered by tens of thousands of merchants that accept PayPal payments.
Big Guys Go Startup Shopping
I’m still trying to recover from the incredible two days that was the mesh conference, and will be posting updates and links to video, blogs, photos and reviews as I come across them, but in the meantime here’s a cross-post from my Globe and Mail blog in which I try to catch up with two of the many tech deals that occurred while I was en-meshed:
Shopping Using A Mobile
ShopText is a relatively new company that launched in November 2006 and provides consumers with the ability to purchase items using their mobiles.
On their Web site the company explains their mobile retail concept. " ShopText is a mobile commerce and promotions company. Our software platform transforms any advertisement into a point of sale opportunity. ShopText technology creates a secure, direct-to-consumer marketplace where consumers can shop, sample and save."
EBay Still the Leader in Online Shopping Sites
EBay’s still king of the online shopping ring, and then some, according to numbers released by Hitwise. Amazon, Wal-Mart, Craigslist, and Target combined can’t match the grip the incumbent online auction powerhouse holds on the online shopping public.
Online Holiday Shopping Popular At Work
Shopping online is popular, especially during the hectic holiday season. Shopping online while at work is even more popular according to a new survey from CyberSource. The findings indicate that the peak online shopping volumes are during conventional working hours
Europe Embraces Holiday Shopping Online
This week, comScore Networks released the first in its latest series of studies geared at examining the online shopping activity of European citizens throughout the holiday season.