{"id":63139,"date":"2014-07-17T12:36:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=63139"},"modified":"2014-07-17T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:26:22","slug":"the-best-online-stores-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/63139\/the-best-online-stores-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"The best online stores in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kalahari.com has beaten off competition from Yuppiechef and Woolworths to be rated as the site South African online shoppers are most satisfied with.<\/p>\n

The inaugural Online Retail SITEisfaction in SA Survey; conducted by online marketing research company, Columinate, scored Kalahari.com with 76 points, with Yuppiechef (71), Woolworths (63), Takealot.com (55), and Groupon (54) taking up the top five positions.<\/p>\n

Electronics good e-tailers scored poorly with Dion Wired at 17 points, and Hi Fi Corp at 14 points, against an average of 40 points.<\/p>\n

Online clothing retailers Mr Price and Zando both scored 46 points.<\/p>\n

Columinate found that 77% of more than 2,000 respondents indicated they have abandoned their shopping cart because they found a better deal elsewhere, or they changed their mind.<\/p>\n

When shoppers were prompted about why they like shopping online, references to \u2018convenience\u2019 and \u2018saving time and money\u2019 were top of mind.<\/p>\n

However, the data revealed that consumers might not be as rational about their motivations for online retail therapy as they think.<\/p>\n

64% of online purchases were made within the \u2018wants\u2019 category\u00a0 (travel, music, books, games, DVDs, event tickets etc.); whereas, only 36% of purchases were made on \u2018essential\u2019 goods such as groceries, clothes and health supplies.<\/p>\n

Columinate said it weighted the number of highly satisfied users against the percentage of highly dissatisfied users. A score of zero would therefore indicate neutrality towards a site, with 100 being the highest possible score.<\/p>\n

\"Columinate<\/a>

Columinate online shopping Siteisfaction<\/p><\/div>\n

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