The Business Times

online shopping

Style & Travel
RETAIL

How AI is transforming Singapore consumers’ shopping habits

Amazon in April added a “Buy for Me” mode to its Rufus digital assistant, allowing users to command it to make purchases at retailer websites off Amazon’s platform.
Telcos, Media & Tech

AI personal shoppers hunt down bargain buys

The platforms should set flexible pricing strategies for charges including commission, membership and service fees to reduce merchants’ burdens, and they should offer better support to smaller businesses, according to the statement. 
Companies & Markets

China publishes draft guidance for online-platform merchant fees

Prices will rise for Americans who buy US$5 shirts, US$10 lamps and US$20 shoes on direct-from-China shopping sites like Shein and Temu after US President Donald Trump this week imposed 10 per cent tariffs on goods from China.
International

Trump’s tariffs on China bite US bargain-hunting online shoppers

In-store sales rose 0.7 per cent, lower than last year’s pace. E-commerce was a bright spot with online sales growing 14.6 per cent, higher than last year’s. 
International

Black Friday sales accelerate with online a bright spot

A shopper walks past Black Friday sale signs at a store on Oxford Street in London, Britain November 28, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams
International

Anxious retailers look to deals, doorbusters to revive sales

Isidora Olave, 20, showing her order from fast fashion e-commerce company Shein in Santiago, Chile, Nov 12, 2024. Ultra-cheap Chinese online shops are causing concern in Latin America because of the unfair competition they pose to traditional commerce.
International

Buy now, pay later: Latin America pressured by Chinese online shops

Advertisements for Singles' Day on Alibaba's Tmall e-commerce platform at a subway station in Shanghai, China, Nov 4, 2024. Singles' Day is China's biggest annual bargains extravaganza built around a Nov 11 event that Alibaba popularised more than a decade ago.
Global Enterprise

China’s ‘Singles Day’ shopping spree in spotlight as spending flags

Deliveroo is not aiming to compete with e-commerce platforms, says Jason Parke, general manager, Deliveroo Singapore.
Startups

Deliveroo launches shopping service, but food delivery still the mainstay: Singapore GM

DFI Retail Group has begun its strategic turn towards the higher-end of the retail grocery market, focusing on its CS Fresh labels.
Property

FairPrice, Sheng Siong in fine fettle even as Giant shrinks footprint

Latest T-bills Treasury Bills Results & Interest NewsLatest SSB Singapore Savings Bonds NewsLatest COE Certificate of Entitlement News
Latest Johor-Singapore SEZ NewsLatest BTO Build To Order & Sales of Balance NewsLatest STI Straits Times Index NewsLatest SGX Dividends, Share Price NewsLatest Bonds Market NewsLatest Singapore Stocks To Buy NewsLatest Singapore Economy News
View More