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...
DHL rolls out eShop to more countries
Since its initial introduction in April of this year, the DHL Africa eShop app has seen its user base grow rapidly and, within the first three months of operation, it had already been rolled out to 20 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. DHL Express has announced that...
HomeChoice launches e-commerce platform
HomeChoice International, a provider of retail and financial services products, and the largest home-shopping retailer in southern Africa, has partnered with Oracle to launch a new e-commerce website hosted on Oracle Cloud Commerce (OCC). OCC is a new commerce...
A new way to shop for travel
Travel commerce platform Travelport is working with multiple airlines and partners to offer next-generation storefront (NGS) capability. Industry partners working with Travelport to pioneer NGS development are WhereTo, an online booking tool, and Travel Technology...
In Moscow, just 18% of men shop online
The Department of Information Technology (DIT) of the City of Moscow and the city's digital technologies platform ICT.Moscow have carried out a study of the capital's digital ecosystems. The results show women shop online (82%) and use food delivery services more...
Takealot, Superbalist plan annual shopping bonanza
The Takealot Group is planning what it believes to be a first-of-its-kind shopping event in South Africa. The Ultimate Checkout Sale is the Takealot Group's beginnings of creating a South African version of an annual shopping event akin to those already established in...
Amazon beats Google in the e-retail search
When thinking 'search', you'd be forgiven for assuming that Google leads the pack. A global study has shown that consumers begin their retail related searches on Amazon first (46%) followed by Google searches (34%). By Michael King: head of Reprise Digital South...