May 24, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A group of investors led by Australian millionaire James Packer recently invested 80 million dollars in ecommerce solution “Catch of the Day,” the overarching company that holds “Scoopon,” a leading Australian daily deals ecommerce solution and holder of the “Groupon.au” domain name (more on that later). The [...]
New Ecommerce Solution for Australian Supermarket Coles
May 11, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Australian supermarket Coles is experimenting with allowing shoppers to buy through their ecommerce solution and pick up in person. Finding a way to integrate their ecommerce solution with the usuall real-world experience of grocery shopping has been a struggle grocery chains have been enduring for years. Growth [...]
Ecommerce Fraud Increasing Down Under
May 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It’s been recorded that the US is one of the top countries in which consumers have fallen victim to hoards of ecommerce fraud, until recent studies have detailed an exponential increase of internet pirates in the land down under. New data collected from over 2 million Australian [...]
Google Shopping for Ecommerce Solutions Launches in Australia
May 5, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Australian merchants with ecommerce solutions are in the midst of the first wave of changes with the birth of Google Shopping in their country. The service (some say long overdue) allows Australian merchants to list their complete store inventories on Google’s expansive search database. This lets users [...]
Groupon Acquires Australian Ecommerce Solution Crowdmass
May 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The daily deals market might just be one of the most competitive sectors for any ecommerce solution. For industry leader Groupon, their latest battlefields are in the east, where they face an uphill (some might say “losing” battle) in China and are the underdog in Australia. Their [...]
Australian Retailers Charge ‘Fitting Fees’ To Make Up For Ecommerce Losses
April 11, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Brick-and-mortar retailers are lashing back at free-loading consumers by charging a fee for trying on clothing. Customers at some Australian ski shops are now being slapped with a $50 “fitting fee” to try on ski boots. The charge, which is refunded if the customer buys a pair [...]
Billionaire James Packer Invests $10M In Aussie Ecommerce Solution
April 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Billionaire James Packer is making his presence known in the world of ecommerce through a $10 million investment toward Australia’s DealsDirect.com.au through Packer’s fund Ellerston Capital. DealsDirect, known as the Aussie online department store, says the investment taken by Ellerston Captial was a “minority cornerstone investment,” which [...]
Google And MYOB Offer Free Websites, May Lead to More Ecommerce
March 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Search engine giant Google has been reported to be teaming up with ecommerce software developer MYOB in attempts to offer free website hosting to Australian small businesses for free. “Getting Aussie Business Online” aims to provide free websites to small businesses in Australia using the MYOB Atlas [...]
Groupon Contendor, LivingSocial, Invests in Let’s Bonus
January 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team Location, location, location! In a bold attempt to gain ground in the online deal space, LivingSocial has taken majority stake in Barcelona based Let’s Bonus, a group buying site that is a leader in the Spanish Market serving Portugal, Italy, Argentina, and Mexico. At the [...]
Groupon Sues Australian Immitator
January 6, 2011 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team Daily deals giant Groupon is suing Australian competitor/imposter Scoopon. The competing daily deals site, is operated by Australian’s Gabby and Hezi Liebovitch, who also own homegrown Australian deal provider catchoftheday.au. Groupon’s problem with the two brothers isn’t that their competing business is just a [...]
Christmas Day Becomes UK’s Biggest Online Spending Day of the Year
December 25, 2010 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team Christmas Day is traditionally a day that marks the end of excessive seasonal spending, where the doors of retail stores are closed, and families are sitting around the tree opening gifts. However with this year’s boom in online shopping, the 2010 holiday is expected to [...]
God Save The Queen, Boxing Day Came Early This Year!
December 24, 2010 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team Every year it seems like people are buying their Halloween costumes in August, tossing the turkey in the oven in October, and setting up their Christmas lights before the cranberries have a chance to even ferment. Now Boxing Day, a day of shopping reserved [...]
Fiji Water Leaves Fiji Due To Tax Increase
December 1, 2010 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team Fiji Water has announced that it will be closing its doors due to what the company is calling “discriminatory” tax increases. Fiji’s government decided to raise the tax from one-third of one percent per liter to 15 percent per liter on companies that extract [...]
Rise in the Australian Dollar is Ecommerce Gold
November 19, 2010 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team It’s all about the Benjamins baby. Correction, it’s all about the Aussies, at least for now. The Australian dollar also known as the Aussie has maintained at the center of the world’s spotlight for the past 6 months. Advancing 17 percent against the greenback [...]
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