Latest U.K. mobile shopping trends show increase of 254% taking 9% share of e-commerce

mobile commerce and NFC technology

It’s still up to retailers to cater to mobile shopping trends to increase conversion. According to a report from a U.K. e-commerce trade association, Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG), mobile shopping trends data indicates that m-commerce is rapidly on the rise. In fact, their data indicates that when compared to March 2011, there was an increase of 254 percent in the same month of this year. Equally, though, the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Index shows that there is still a tremendous amount of room for conversions in that channel to…

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Boots.com mobile commerce site sees 300,000 visitors within its first month

Boots.com Mobile Commerce Site

Within the very first month that Boots UK Ltd. ran its mobile commerce site, it managed to receive close to 300,000 unique monthly visitors. These are exciting numbers for any merchant advertising through e-commerce channels. Boots UK gave recognition to the growing number of people using the mobile web for the tremendous number of mobile visitors that stopped by the Boots.com mobile site. A spokesperson for Boots UK said that over the last year, there has been a notable rise in the number of visitors to their traditional website from…

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