At the moment, Google provide a free shopping feed for any e-tailer who wants to upload a feed of their products to the Google servers. Today, Google announced they’ll be phasing this out and replacing it with Google Shopping, which, from early reports, will run like a comparison shopping site, similar to those already popular [...]
The face of retail continues to change in Australia
We’ve seen it on the subway in Tokyo, but now, in Australia, you can go shopping with your smart phone at Sports Girl without actually setting foot inside the store. The outside of the store has giant photos of selected products with QR codes on them. Scan the items with your phone and add them [...]
Turn your iPhone into a credit card facility
PayPal are introducing a new service called PayPal Here. With an iPhone ap and a swiping device that can be plugged in to the headphone jack on your iPhone, you can turn your phone in to a mobile eftpos machine. It’s not available yet, but you can sign up for notification when it arrives. Visit [...]
Has the bubble burst on ‘daily deal’ websites?
According to data released by SMH today, group buying websites have had their bubble and it’s now burst. The article starts of with “There are only so many sets of cheap sheets and discounted gadgets the Australian public can buy.” which is hilarous, because there’s a spare set in my linen cupboard! Sales are down 34% [...]
Is your Free Shipping really free?
As we have long suspected, a lot of online retailers who offer a blanket ‘Free Shipping’ are building the cost of of the shipping in to their goods. news.com.au did their own price comparison and found that majors like Myer, David Jones & JB Hi-Fi were more expensive than smaller competitors who offer the goods [...]
Inika Natural Mineral Makeup
Our flagship e-commerce store, Shop Naturally, has launched the range of Inika Mineral Makeup this week. A full service makeup range, it consists of foundation, eye shadow, lipstick, mascara, eye makeup remover, brushes and many other supporting products. A full range of testers for the range is available in our showroom. Contact the customer service [...]
ACCC to champion small online retailers in 2012
We read an article today on Power Retail about the ACCC’s plans to help small online businesses get their hands on stock without the ‘big boys’ cornering the market. They’re also going after distributors and wholesalers who are telling their retailers what they can and can’t sell product for. This part I absolutely don’t agree [...]
Give your online shop a boost
If you’re running an online store and you’re wondering how you can take it to the next level, a visit to the Online Retailer Roadshow is a must. It’s a one day conference travelling to Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane in March. We attended last year and learnt some valuable information. This year, Martin Mewman from [...]
Lunch Box range expanded at Shop Naturally
With Back To School just around the corner, Shop Naturally have expanded their lunch box range to include the Fit & Fresh range of lunch boxes and snack boxes with ice packs built in. Available in a 1 cup snack, 2 cup snack (pictured), square sandwich box and large lunch box for older kids and adults, [...]
e-tailers refund policies under the microscope
It seems that some of the countries biggest online retailers has less than impressive refund policies, including Apple, Coles Online & Officeworks. The Consumer Action Law Centre went through many of Australia’s major players and found fault with almost all of them. Personally, in the past, I was rather miffed at the ‘store credit’ only [...]