Consumers are expected to spend 1.3% or £1.07bn more from June to August as a direct result of the UK’s two major events
• With both the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics sweeping the nation this summer, overall retail sales are expected show a year on year increase of 3.7% from £82bn (June – [...] View more ›
This summer alone, Britons will be charged almost £1 million a day for exceeding baggage limits
• 55% of consumers that exceeded their excess baggage allowance in 2011 incurred charges, a total of 3.8 million people. On average, limits were exceeded by 3.5 kilos costing a total of £186 million or £48 each [...] View more ›
21% of parents admit they don’t spend any time teaching their kids to cook
• One in five parents (21%) claim that teaching their children to cook is not a valuable use of time, 19% feel kids don’t need to learn as they cook for them and 12% think there are more important [...] View more ›
Retailers in London will see the biggest hike with a 9% increase in Sunday retail spend, accounting for almost half (47%) of the country’s total increase
• Extending Sunday opening hours by up to four hours in the eight week Olympic period is predicted to increase retail spend by £189.8 million, a 4.2% hike [...] View more ›
Shopping on mobile devices is set to increase by 584% this year from just £0.7bn in 2010
• Shopping on mobile devices is set to increase by 53% in the next 12 months hitting £4.5bn, making Brits the biggest mobile shoppers in Europe for the third year running followed by Germany (£2.7bn) and France (£1.9bn)
• Last [...] View more ›
European online shoppers are expected to spend €14.6bn on mobile devices in 2012, up from €2.4bn in 2010
• Shopping using mobile devices in Europe is set to increase by 62% in the next 12 months alone hitting €14.6bn. The biggest hikes will be in Switzerland (111%), Spain (73%) and France (71%)
• For the third year [...] View more ›
TOTAL RETAIL SALES TO RISE BY JUST 1.8% OVER THE SAME PERIOD
Online retailing is one of the fastest growing markets in Europe. Worth €120bn in 2008, it grew by 67% to €200.52bn last year [1]. In 2011 e-commerce sales continued to perform strongly, increasing by 18% year-on-year and representing 7.8% of total retail sales across [...] View more ›
British spend represents almost a third of all online goods sold in Europe[1]
Online retailing is one of the fastest growing markets in the UK. Worth £33.96bn in 2008, it grew by 48% to £50.34bn last year [1]. In 2011 e-commerce sales continued to perform strongly, increasing by 14% year-on-year and representing 12% of total UK [...] View more ›
• The busiest high street shopping day this year is expected to be Saturday 17th December when 11 million Christmas consumers are set to spend £1.05bn[1] (£128 each)[2], just over £1.5 million per minute[3]
• On average, each UK household is predicted to spend a total of £682 this Christmas, £508 of which will [...] View more ›
Kelkoo reveals ‘boozy shopping’ secrets as the Christmas season is in full swing
• Nearly half (43%) of all Brits have shopped online after drinking, more than a third of these (39%) confess they will do some or all of their Christmas shopping online whilst under the influence this yea
• Overall, [...] View more ›