US sale events spur e-commerce in S'pore

[SINGAPORE] Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be US sales events, but that has not stopped them from creating waves in Singapore's shopping scene.

In fact, these are the busiest days of the year for local online shopping and shipping service provider vPost, said its senior vice-president for eCommerce, Marcelo Wesseler.

The company does not provide details on sales volumes; however, it saw an increase in unique visitors by more than 140 per cent on those two days. Its recently established Omigo.com shopping site, which currently stocks about 7,000 consumer electronics, toys and baby products from the US and Singapore merchants, recorded a 127 per cent jump in transactions in the week leading to Black Friday compared to the week before.