Online holiday shopping growing in popularity
October 31, 2006 by SwizStick
Filed under Misc Logistics, QuickNews
For transportation providers, the move to more online shopping generates parcels and individual shipments moving through distribution centers.
According to a new survey conducted for the National Retail Federation by BIGresearch, shoppers, who are expected to spend $791.10 each this year on holiday merchandise, said they will use the Internet for an average of one-fourth (28.9 percent) of their shopping.
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Nearly half (47.1 percent) of consumers plan to make at least one holiday purchase online this year, up from 36 percent three years ago.
Via Air Cargo World. I started doing my entire holiday shopping online in 1998 and never looked back. So much simpler and stress-free compared to the manic crowds of your local shopping mall or center. A word of caution, though: make sure you pad online retailers’ holiday order deadlines by a good week. Often during the holiday season high demand products will run into short supply and delivery carriers such as FedEx, UPS, and (ugh) USPS get slammed with packages, meaning that someone’s package somewhere will get misplaced or misdelivered. Also try to stick with larger, well-established online retailers or niche retailers who specialize in a particular product.
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