According to our friends at WebUser, the latest market research into Internet shopping has found that us Brits are much more likely to buy our stuff online than any of the other European countries.
A report from Mintel found that the real market driver for this is our grocery shopping with many of us going online to do our weekly and monthly shops.
I have used both Tesco's and Asda's services and my wife swears by them now as although it can be a little time consuming to get started it's much easier and means we both don't have to trail around the local stores on a Saturday afternoon.
Richard Perks, director of retail research at Mintel comments: "The main reason for this is the sophisticated online offering of the UK's food retailers and the fact that so many of us now more than happy to turn to the Internet to do our weekly shop," he continued.
According to Mintel, UK online sales were worth £12.8 billion in 2007, and the online retail market grew by 75 per cent between 2005 and 2007. To be honest I still think this has room to grow further as more and more of us seem to be buying anything and everything online.
Other good quality online shopping sites I would recommend using include:
- Price Runner - Probably the best site for gadgets, computers as it includes technical and customer reviews
- Kelkoo - great for most things especially electrical, gadgets etc
- ASOS - a good site for buying ladies clothing if you don't know where to turn
- eBay - for anything and everything although always compare the prices to other online stores as they aren't always the cheapest and you can get sucked into the community
- Amazon - great for books and music
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