{"id":68168,"date":"2014-09-10T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=68168"},"modified":"2014-09-10T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T14:41:55","slug":"boardmans-launches-e-commerce-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/68168\/boardmans-launches-e-commerce-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Boardmans launches e-commerce site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail group Edcon has announced that home specialist, Boardmans, has launched online, and follows the launch of other brands in its stable, namely CNA, and Red Square.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"http:\/\/www.boardmans.co.za\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boardmans.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">new e-commerce website<\/a> includes an extensive range of well-known premium home brands, including Jamie Oliver, Russell Hobbs, Granny Goose, Zeal, Umbra and Jenna Clifford, as well as new international brands like Cake Boss and Lodge.<\/p>\n<p>Shoppers can navigate the site by room, brand or by using the search function.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customer-written product reviews are encouraged to help guide online browsers and a shareable wish list makes it easy to suggest to friends and families what to get for birthdays and special occasions,&#8221; Edcon said.<\/p>\n<p>Recent local research shows that home and kitchenware items made up 13% of online purchases in the past three months, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Boardmans will also feature a wedding gift registry.<\/p>\n<p>From the time of online purchase, products will be delivered straight to the customer&#8217;s door within 5-7 working days.<\/p>\n<p>Orders over R500 are delivered free of charge, Edcon said. Alternatively, a standard delivery fee of R65 applies.<\/p>\n<p>In the event that the item is not suitable once it has been delivered, online purchases can be returned to any physical Boardmans store, the group said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on e-commerce in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Edcon continues online push\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/38705\/edcon-continues-e-commerce-push\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Edcon continues online push<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Takealot cash boost good for SA e-commerce\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/67636\/takealot-cash-boost-good-for-sa-e-commerce\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Takealot cash boost good for SA e-commerce<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The best e-commerce site in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/67576\/the-best-e-commerce-site-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The best e-commerce site in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail group Edcon has announced that home specialist, Boardmans, has launched online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":68170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[4713,3312,26],"class_list":["post-68168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-boardmans","tag-edcon","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68174,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68168\/revisions\/68174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}