| 60% of the UK's online population visited an ecommerce website in
December 2002. The UK is Europe's biggest ecommerce market with 70%
of online window-shoppers going on to make a purchase via the Net.
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| - Nielsen NetRatings |
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| The organisation, whose members include everyone from Tesco to Argos,
Ikea and Lastminute.com, says UK shoppers will spend £17bn online
this year.
And as purchasing over the web becomes ever more popular, it estimates
that this figure will rise to £80bn by 2009.
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| - BBC News |
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| According to a new report by IMRG, the industry body for global
e-retailing, UK online shopping in November was 44% higher than 12
months ago. It estimates that during the month, UK internet shoppers
spent £1.175bn, some 7% of all retail sales. |
| - BBC News (12 Dec 03) |