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Mobile Shopping Insights For The Future
by Jack Loechner, Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:15 AM
“It’s by no means a representative sample of the overall consumer population,” says the author, Bill Siwicki, Managing Editor, Mobile Commerce, but certainly useful as a harbinger
of mobile shopping in the future. According to a December survey of a sample of TechBargains.com visitors, reports Internet Retailer, among smartphone owners in this survey, 32% of women and
25% of men made half or more of their holiday purchases via mobile phones. Overall, 34% of iPhone users and 20% of Android users who made purchases using their phones say half or more of their holiday
purchasing was done via their smartphones. Among tablet owners, 35% of women and 21% of men made half or more of their holiday purchases via their iPads and other tablets. 58% of mobile phone
owners have made purchases via their devices compared with 94% on laptops and 75% via tablets, says the survey of TechBargains.com visitors, who skew tech-savvy. For those who shop with their
phone:
- 79% use it to research products,
- 77% to compare prices
- 73% to browse stores
Of the 58% percent of shoppers who make purchases via their
mobile devices:
- 69% use both the mobile browser and apps to buy products;
- 18% only use apps
- 13% only use a mobile browser
On mobile phones,
- 70% of shoppers purchased digital goods,
- 60% purchased physical merchandise,
- 46% purchased services and
- 38% purchased consumable goods, the survey finds.
- 76%, say ease of use is the reason they would buy on
- 34% cite price point as the reason why they would buy
75% of tablet owners use their devices to make
purchases;
- 90% use tablets to browse stores,
- 89% research products and 85% compare prices.
- 86% of iPad 2 owners make purchases via their tablets while
- 74% of Kindle Fire owners make purchases via their devices.
Yung Trang, president of TechBargains, said “... results strongly indicate that mobile devices are currently much
better for window shopping than for buying... tablets are widely used for research and shopping... “ 59% of men and 54% of women in the survey made purchases using their mobile phones.
Of those who didn’t use their mobile phones to make purchases, 42% of men and 38% of women cited security concerns, and 54% of men and 59% of women cited difficulty completing purchases, notes
the report. 74% of men and 77% of women made purchases using their tablets. At the same time, a Prosper study suggests that 40% of mobile users use their smartphone or tablet to compare prices
while in the store and purchase from another retailer’s physical store... .
Used Smartphone Or Tablet While Shopping In A Store (multiple answers OK),
And:Action% of Respondents Compared prices and purchased from
another retailer’s physical store 40.6% Compared prices and purchased from another
retailer’s website using my device 25.6% Compared prices and purchased from another
retailer’s website using my laptop/desktop after leaving the store 23.1% Compared prices but
still purchased from the same retailer 30.6% Compared prices and purchased from the same retailer’s
website using my device 13.3% Compared prices and purchased from the same retailer’s website
using my laptop/desktop after leaving the store 13.3% Requested a price match 26.4% “Checked in” for a discount 26.7%
Read product reviews to decide between products 5.8% Scanned a QR code
to get more information about a product 29.7%
Source: Prosper Mobile Insights, Mobile
Survey, December 2011 (totals may be greater than 100% because the respondents can select more than one answer) For
more information about the TechBargains report, please visit here, and to the complete
Prosper Holiday Mobile Survey, go here.