A new survey conducted by Kalahari.com shows that the number of connected South Africans\u00a0planning to do their festive season shopping online has increased by 5% from last year, to 92%.<\/p>\n
The survey points to the growing number of shoppers planning to use to their iPads to shop online (17.9%); but the majority of people still plan to use laptops (59.2%), followed by desktop PCs at (49%).<\/p>\n
According to Kalahari.com,\u00a040.8% of shoppers have already started their festive season shopping, with 33.6% only planning to fill festive stockings during the first and second week of December.<\/p>\n
Tablets are predicted to be the biggest seller this festive season (35.7%); followed by media items such as books, CDs, DVDs and games.<\/p>\n
The Apple iPad is still the most wanted tablet (55%); followed by the Samsung Galaxy Tablet (28%).<\/p>\n
Samsung and Apple are jostling for a spot on the Smartphone gift wishlist, with 35.8% of \u00a0shoppers wanting an iPhone 5, followed by 30.7% who want a Galaxy S3; whilst 19.6% want a BlackBerry 9900.<\/p>\n
Jamie Oliver; Game of Thrones; Fifty Shades of Grey and JK Rowling are battling it out as festive season literary favourites.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur local increase in festive season shopping is in line with that of counterparts in the US. According to Google\u2019s Retail Survey released last month, US shoppers will be spending $900 on holiday shopping this year compared to $854 in 2011; with 80% of respondents indicating that they found going online as the most useful way to get information for holiday shopping ,\u201d said Liz Hillock, head of marketing at kalahari.com.<\/p>\n
Electronics are still the most coveted gift by shoppers, with the craze spearheaded by tablets (34.6%); followed by eReaders (13.8%) and the DStv HD PVR Decoder (13.1%).<\/p>\n
Kalahari.com says that its\u00a0best selling device remains the gobii 7\u201dcolour eReader, which plays music and video, and retails at an affordable R799, with a free R160 eBook voucher.<\/p>\n
A quarter of shoppers that will be buying toys for kids, are opting for the timeless classic Lego, for their children. Close to 10% of shoppers said they would buy the educational LeapPad 2 and only 6.2% of shoppers saying that they would buy Barbie Dolls.<\/p>\n
Batman, meanwhile, beats the other action-filled titles as the most coveted holiday season DVD with The Dark Knight Rises (36.4%); followed by the cool Ice Age 4 (25.8%). The clash of superheroes in The Avengers takes third position (22.7%) as a holiday favourite, followed by Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man in fourth place (15.9%).<\/p>\n
Call Of Duty: Black Ops has emerged as the gaming favourite (24.7%), followed by Assassin’s Creed 3 at (24.2%). FIFA 13, with close to 20% of respondents, was third.<\/p>\n
\u201cKalahari.com is also giving Santa a break this year and offering free delivery on all orders this festive season, until the 31 December 2012,\u201d said Hillock.<\/p>\n
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