Archive for October, 2007

Social Shopping

It’s not an unfounded gender stereotype; men and women really do have different styles of shopping. As described in a Wharton research article “Men Buy, Women Shop“, men and women have very different goals when they are shopping in retail stores.
This paper, along with other research, supports what most people would have guessed: shopping [...]

How Shoppers Find Products

According to recent eCommerce research from Marketing Sherpa, online consumers prefer shopping on the web to shopping in stores. When online Americans were asked where they would prefer to shop if they had only one choice, 55% chose “online” over “separate stores” ( 17% ) or “the mall” (13%).
Furthermore, when asked how they find new [...]