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Verdict Research, retail analyst, reveals that online shopping sales increased by 33.4% to £10.9bn in 2006. Verdict also sees Ecommerce sales almost tripling over the next five years,and that in 2011, online retailing will be worth about £28.1bn, or about 8.9% of the UK's total retail sales.
UK consumers spent £4.98bn online during the 10 week period before
Christmas 2005, compared with £3.3bn for the same time a year earlier,
according to e-commerce trade body IMRG.
For 2005 as a whole, it calculated that spending over the internet
on the web in the UK totalled £19.2bn, 32% more than 2004.
IMRG now forecasts that e-commerce online spending will grow by 36%
in 2006, with sales worth £26bn.
Internet shopping among UK consumers soared almost 50% in the 10 weeks before
Christmas, a report by IMRG has found.
Some 24 million UK consumers shopped online in 2005, spending on average £816 each during the year, and £208 in the run-up to Christmas.
IMRG chief executive James Roper said it was time for High Street retailers to make all their product ranges available online, and not just a limited number of items.
Of those retailers that have embraced the internet, Tesco said a record one
million customers bought through its web site in November and December, while
department store John Lewis recorded online and catalogue sales of more than £100m
in 2005.
"Over the last seven years attitudes towards online shopping have gone through a seismic shift," said Richard Lloyd-Owen, head of consumer business at accountants Deloitte.
"Once labelled as the best way to get good bargains and cheaper goods, shoppers now flock to the web for different reasons."
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eCommerce online statistic: 57% of UK households had a internet connection and 69% of those were linked up via broadband (BBC online).
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