Mcommerce to play a vital role in UK sales over next decade

Mobile commerce and the future

New report releases results of predictions regarding online shopping by 2022. A new retail report has been released by the Economist Intelligence Unit which showed the way that the retail sector will be changing throughout the next decade due to e- and mcommerce as well as social media sales (s-commerce). It showed that all online purchases will make up more than one third of the sales in the U.K by 2022. At the moment, the combination of s-, e- and mcommerce make up around 10 percent of sales in the…

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Mcommerce expected to bring £11 billion in U.K. sales in 2012

mobile commerce and NFC technology

This year, retail mobile apps should generate sales growth by about 23 percent. The results of a new Netsuite study have been released in their latest report, and have shown that mcommerce apps among high street retailers in the United Kingdom will increase from 70 percent to 80 percent. This includes those that have stated that they intend to have at least one within the next year. The leading platforms for retail mcommerce applications are iOS (at 48 percent), Android (at 45 percent), Windows Phone (at 30 percent) and Blackberry…

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Research shows tablet users watch television while shopping online

Mobile Shopping Trends 2011

A study performed in Britain, Germany, and France by Shopzilla, almost 75 percent of mobile device users use dual screen technology in order to browse for products while they stream television programs. That said, according to the same study performed by the price comparison service, over half of all internet shoppers do so with their friends. Rachel Smith, who works for Shopzilla, said that while mobile commerce has been predicted for quite some time now, it has finally arrived. She added that “With the explosion of the tablet market we…

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