Ecommerce Websites: The Future of Retail

It's a well-known fact that footfall on the UK high street continues to decline. Earlier this year, the Office for National Statistics reported that online sales account for 18.2% of all retail spending, a rise from 16.1% last year.

A new study set out to discover the reasons that more and more people are shopping online instead of on the high street and the results have now been published.

The study, conducted in partnership with YouGov and ParcelLab, took the form of an online survey, gathering the opinions of more than 2,000 consumers in the UK. Broadly speaking, the results of the survey show that retailers on the high street fail to deliver comparable levels of convenience and post-sale service than do their competitors in the online marketplace.

The Figures

• 60% cited limited product selection on the high street as a frustration
• 51% blamed poor customer service
• 50% of respondents disliked having to queue to pay for or return items
• 56% of millennials (people aged 18-24) preferred online-only retailers
• 60% said that lower prices attracted them to online retailers

Owning and maintaining an intelligent, responsive and adaptive website is clearly essential in today's retail sector. Whatever the product that you wish to sell is, you can be certain that someone else is already offering it online; with this level of competition, you can't afford to be complacent about delivering a world-class service to your customers.

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