25/09/007 - Record Online Christmas Expected In UK
Christmas online spending in the UK is expected to smash the
£10 billion mark for the first time in lead up to Christmas.
Average spend is expected to go up 57% with an estimated 70% of internet users planning to make purchases online this Christmas.
1/07/07 - Two years old today!
Two years on, and we feel as though the Safer Shopping scheme is making a real difference for both the retailers that display the logo and for customers who choose to shop on approved sites.
We still reject more applications that we accept meaning that the number of customer disputes we've dealt with has been kept incredibly low. If we're not sure about a website, we won't include them in our scheme.
1/09/06 - Inviting New Applications
When the Safer Shopping scheme was launched last year, we made the decision to limit the number of member sites initially. After the initial batch of invitations were sent to retailers, the only new members to join have been companies that have approached us. Having established that the scheme is working as it should be and that the number of consumer disputes is very low, we are now ready to start inviting websites to join the scheme.
1/07/06 - Safer Shopping is 1 year old today!
Over the course of the past year, we've kept the number of approved retailers fairly small to make sure that we had all the correct systems in place. We are pleased to say that the scheme has been a great success and will now be expanded. Most pleasing of all is the tiny number of complaints we've received about Safer Shopping approved websites. Every single one of those disputes has been resolved amicably, and in most cases they've been simple misunderstandings (eg: post office not leaving a card when the customer has been out).
4/08/05 -
 The current issue (195, 4-17 Aug) of Computeractive magazine includes a feature on the Safer Shopping scheme.
27/06/05 - According to a survey carried out by Infosurv, 13 per cent of e-banking customers and 12 per cent of ecommerce users said they had stopped trading online because of security concerns.
20/06/05 - The Safer Shopping scheme officially launches on the 1st of July. Retailers are currently being contacted and invited to submit their applications this week.
15/06/05 - UK e-commerce up 29.3% in April 2005 by ZDNet's Alex Moskalyuk — British consumers spent 1.4 bln pounds online in April 2005, 29.3% more than in April 2004, reports the Interactive Media in Retail Group. |
