Optimise your credit card this Black Friday

The most anticipated shopping day of the year is fast approaching. Originally a US tradition, most stores — online and off — now offer huge savings and discounts on almost all products ranging from make-up and toiletries to big-ticket items like TVs and...

What will Black Friday look like in future?

South Africans have well and truly jumped on the Black Friday bandwagon over the past few years, embracing the Americans’ Thanksgiving shopping holiday to take advantage of pre-festive season deals. Whether big or small, online or mall, retailers across product...

How safe is online shopping?

Online retail is a huge business, with an increasing number of consumers across the world turning to the Internet to buy products and services. There are several reasons for this, but the obvious ones are convenience, affordability and range of choice that physical...

Internet use opens SA’s e-commerce doors

The closure of the 159-year-old “Harrods of South Africa”, department store Stuttafords, has brought to the fore important questions about how industries need to develop stronger business plans and innovate in order to serve the tech-savvy customer, writes...

Get the best price for your car

While the used car market seems to be thriving on the back of high price inflation on new vehicles, consumers continue to struggle to get good prices on trade-ins. get\Worth provides some valuable advice and tactics to adopt to give consumers a better chance of a...

How to slash e-commerce cart abandonment

Kyle Rozendo, chief technology officer at SID, puts forward nine simple ways to make sweeping changes to e-commerce website performance. Global shopping cart abandonment on e-commerce websites is reported at anything between 60% and 70%. Yet simple tweaks to the...