Thinking about Future e-commerce
A thought leadership paper on the future challenges facing e-commerce
Thinking about Future e-commerce. This paper looks at the influences and trends that will impact the evolution of e-commerce in the future
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Thinking about e-commerce failures
A thought leadership paper on e-commerce failures and how to resolve them
Thinking about e-commerce failures. This paper examines e-commerce failures related to physical and digital services and suggests a number of approaches to addressing them.
Fevad France online Christmas shopping 2007
This report details the Christmas 2007B2C online shopping in the French market
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Fevad France Internet shopping 2007 – 2008 statistics
French online shopping in 2007
Issued in February 2008 this is a detailed overview of B2C online shopping in France during 2007.
The price of posting standard first and second class letters in the UK has risen
For smaller items, first class stamps are now 38p instead of 36p and second class stamp now 27p instead of 24p. For larger items, first class has risen from 48p to 52p and second class from 40p to 42p.
Royal Mail says that stamped mail continues to run at a loss despite the increases – as much as GBP 178m in 2007. Royal Mail said that it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the subsidy on stamped mail whilst it was under so much pressure from competitors for business mail. Several key contracts have already been lost to rivals TNT Post.
Both Postwatch and Postcomm have said that it was essential that Royal Mail made greater efforts to be more efficient rather than rely on stamp prices to offset losses.
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