$1 billion, Amount S'poreans spent on online shopping last year
SHOPPING online has become the main channel through which lawyer Grace Teo buys her clothes.
"I don't always have the time to physically go shopping, so online shopping is more convenient for me, as I can buy what I want from my desk at home," said the 31-year-old.
Ms Teo is among many Singaporeans who are turning to the Internet for their shopping needs. In fact, Singapore consumers spent a staggering $1.1billion on online shopping last year, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Some 46 per cent of that spending, amounting to $508 million, was done on overseas websites. But domestic websites were surprisingly a big hit, with Singaporeans spending $420 million on them, making up 38 per cent of their total online purchases.
Another $178 million was spent on websites whose countries of origin were uncertain. One Singaporean who loves shopping on Singapore websites is civil servant May Chen, 24.
"There's one local site I like to shop at because the person is a senior from my school, so there's that trust in terms of quality," she said.
Ms Chen added that shopping on Singapore websites is easy with Internet banking and less cumbersome than shopping on overseas sites, which comes with concerns like exchange rates.
The survey, conducted by research firm The Nielsen Company and commissioned by online payment service PayPal, polled 407 Singapore consumers in January and February.
Mr Elias Ghanem, managing director and general manager for PayPal in South-east Asia, India and South Korea, said Singaporeans are more comfortable shopping on domestic sites and "local websites are more aware of Singaporean shoppers' tastes and preferences".
He added that this phenomenon is seen in other parts of the world, noting that in a similar survey done by Forrester for Australia, 25 per cent of Australians preferred to buy only from domestic websites.
For home-grown blogshop Ohsofickle, owned by popular blogger Tammy Tay, 20, online stores have a price advantage.
Ms Tracy Tack, director of the blogshop, said webstores here can offer lower prices than those of retail shopfronts where mark-ups can be two to three times more as the overheads are lower.
In Ohsofickle's case, Ms Tay's popularity with Singaporeans is a part of the site's appeal, Ms Tack added. But the popularity of online shops does not make brick-and- mortar stores irrelevant.
Dr Lynda Wee, a retail expert from the Nanyang Technological University, said physical stores have the benefit of the human touch, allowing customers to browse and try out products, as well as giving shoppers instant gratification from immediate purchases.
-News courtesy of Omy-
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我们知道搬东西会流下不少汗水，为了要补充水分！
所以我们将为您提供免费瓶装水！没错，是免费的！
当然别忘了我们的免费手推车！
Our van has finished repairing....
And now we are ready to serve you with our best!
We know that moving stuffs is a sweating task........
So.... We provide all our customers with free drinking water!
Free of charge absolutely!
Not to forget about our free hand trolley too!
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有兴趣把旧书给我寄卖的朋友们，可以直接诚心发送照片（jpg gif png格式）到以下的email。图片必须清晰显示书本的名字、作者、出版社跟edition年份。这样是为了方便本人诚心处理旧书的分类，也方便你们只需要发送一次email就可以。
Email: quekpj [@] gmail.com 谢绝玩弄 请自行将[＠]纠正成@。
－书本名字 (Title)
－作者 (Author)
－出版社 (Publisher)
－出版年份 (2010??)
－科系 EEE, MAE, CEE, NBS etc......（EEE优先处理）
－使用于哪个科目 （例如algorithms = EE2010）
－理想出售价格 (SGD)
－其他问题（简单明白，一针见血）
Email: quekpj [@] gmail.com 谢绝玩弄 请自行将[＠]纠正成@。
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