De Beers opts for Oracle in-store
Luxury retailer De Beers Jewellers is adopting modern Oracle Xstore technology to enhance its customers' shopping experience. Each of De Beers' 33 stores, located in 15 countries, are equipped with the proprietary De Beers Iris technology that allows customers to see...
Stay safe while shopping online
Individuals and retailers aren't the only ones getting ready for the biggest shopping season of the year. The holiday shopping season is also a big event for cybercriminals. By Doros Hadjizenonos, regional sales director at Fortinet Every holiday season, security...
GoDaddy, WooCommerce make e-commerce easier
GoDaddy has announced an integration with WooCommerce, the most popular and powerful eCommerce engine available for WordPress. The integration, now available in South Africa, reduces the typical four-step set-up process into a single easy step, so GoDaddy WordPress...
Meals are always on time with Picup
Online meal kit provider UCOOK has scaled from 24 meals in its first delivery five years ago, to thousands every week now. The mise en place for this scalability was Picup's disruptive logistics solution. UCOOK provides high-quality ingredients, well-written recipes...
FNB expects spike in Black Friday purchases
FNB debit and credit card holders made over R2,5-billion worth of purchases during last year's Black Friday. FNB retail chief executive Raj Makanjee says: "We expect the value of Black Friday transactions to rise by 16% this year. When comparing typical Friday spend...
DHL Africa eShop for international Black Friday deals
With Black Friday only a couple days away, many ardent shoppers have been on the lookout for the best possible deals. Black Friday originated in the US and has fast become known as the start of the famous sales weekend following Thanksgiving Day, with brands offering...
Takealot prepares to ship an order per second
South Africa's leading ecommerce group expects to ship at least one order every second, with roughly 10 000 boxes leaving its warehouses every hour this shopping season. Black Friday was first introduced to South Africa in 2012, and has since become an important day...
Ace Black Friday with this cheat sheet
What started as a post-Thanksgiving blowout sale by US retailers has snowballed into one of the most significant calendar days for consumers and the retail industry the world over. Black Friday, which always falls on the day after the US's Thanksgiving holiday, is...
Cut through the Black Friday clutter
Black Friday, although an American shopping tradition, gets bigger every year in South Africa. In just a few years, it has disrupted sales trends and patterns, changed consumer shopping habits, and forced businesses to rethink their year-end sales strategies and...
Get the most out of Black Friday
Retailers hoping to secure their portion of the expected 30% year-on-year online Black Friday growth should ensure co-ordinated marketing across channels and making payments as easy as possible. With the big day fast approaching, two ecommerce specialists believe...
Keep customers and make sales this Black Friday
Five years ago, Black Friday and Cyber Monday didn't even exist in South Africa. Today, they're a major cash cow for local retailers. On Black Friday last year, consumers spent a record R2,9-billion, and that number is expected to jump 30% this year, with e-commerce...
Strategies for reducing cart abandonment
When it comes to e-commerce, reducing cart abandonment is critical to increase sales and revenue. The industry norm for abandoned carts is an astonishing 75% to 80%, which means that merchants are losing 4 out of every 5 sales due to poor checkout conversion - this is...