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Mobile search for fashion and retail up 23 percent

London - As smartphone usage and digital technologies change how consumers shop, it comes as little surprise that online retail searches has grown by 7 percent in the first quarter of 2017. Fashion is the most searched for sector According to the latest BRC-Google Online Retail Monitor retail searches on smartphones saw an increase of 23 per...

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Smartphone sales increase 101 percent in March

Online smartphone sales increased a whopping 101 percent year-on-year in March, far surpassing that of tablets, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini eRetail Sales Index. Transactions carried out on tablets increased a mere 6 percent year-on-year last month compared to smartphone sales. During the first three months of the year, smartphone...

Fashion Featured

M-commerce responsible for most UK online sales

Mobile phones and tablets are now responsible for more online sales in Britain than traditional desktop or laptop computers, the IMRG Capgemini Quarterly Benchmarking report showed. In the key holiday and clearance season running from November to January, m-commerce accounted for a history-making 51 percent of e-sales. That was a significant...

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Put down your smartphone? Not at Paris fashion week

Usually, smartphones are the bane of organised events, but one Japanese designer decided to use snap-happy fashionistas to his advantage and make them work to see his latest collection. As Paris kicked off a nine day fashion frenzy on Tuesday, tech-loving designer Kunihiko Morinaga for Anrealage unveiled a spring/summer 2016 ready-to-wear...

Fashion

Smartphone use influences retail store sales

Smartphones currently influence 5.1 percent of annual retail store sales, translating into $159 billion in forecasted sales for 2012, according to new Deloitte research. For the first time in the industry, the in-depth study measures the "mobile influence factor" on in-stores sales. The mobile influence factor captures the in-store sales driven...