Going online: a window to how we are shopping this Christmas
November 26, 2012 by admin
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The poster on the door of the David Jones Elizabeth Street store reads: ”Love giving, Love Christmas. Shop online and instore”.
As passers-by stop to look at the store’s Christmas windows, the emphasis on putting the online option before the bricks-and-mortar alternative is telling.
With 29 shopping days until Christmas, the ongoing battle between traditional stores and online retailers has seen a few interesting trends emerge.
Google search trends reveal it is possible to get an idea of which retailers are being tracked down by shoppers.
A search Australia-wide using the term ”online shopping” shows the rising stars, with more than 5000 per cent growth in search volume in the past 12 months, were clothes retailers Boohoo and The Iconic.
Other brands showing strong growth in search interest were online and traditional store fashion retailer Princess Polly at 70 per cent growth and online fashion retailer ASOS at 60 per cent.
But with 60 per cent growth, David Jones online is also demonstrating it can compete in search interest. Against the might of eBay over the past 12 months though, the presence of David Jones or Myer is insignificant. The lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret, meanwhile, has a higher peak in searches each Christmas since 2009 with this year showing promise of another increase.
Myer chief Bernie Brookes said last week’s online shopping promotion, Click Frenzy, exposed the cracks retailers face when trying to migrate their business online.
”We still have a lot to learn generally in this space in how to manage large quantities going into the website and large transactions taking place,” he said after the Australian Retailers Association awards.
Overall, Mr Brookes said the promotion had been a ”runaway success”, showing major retailers could ”play in the game” and there was an appetite for Australians to shop with local retailers online.
Mr Brookes also allowed that Myer was expecting a ”flat Christmas”.
Google says this season’s biggest opportunity for online retailing is mobile with nearly 40 per cent of shopping-related Google searches now coming from smartphones or tablets. The number of queries coming from mobile devices including tablets has more than doubled over the past 12 months.
Ross McDonald, Google Australia’s Industry Leader for Local Retail, said as consumers branched out from smartphones into new types of devices such as tablets, the mobile revolution was expanding to multiple screens. ”The real moral of this year’s Christmas story is retailers need to mobilise, and fast. They need to be found wherever the web is.”
Bricks-and-mortar retailers will continue to argue that going into a store provides the shopper with a more personal service and the expertise of trained staff.
A visit to Myer on Thursday showed there were plenty of potential customers about the store. But there were very few staff other than those at the tills. The kitchenware department, for example, was a desert as far as staff was concerned. Hard luck if you need help in choosing a meat thermometer to check if the turkey is cooked.
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Beneath the gloss Tulisa¿s a cyber fishwife
November 23, 2012 by admin
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Jan Moir
19:25 EST, 22 November 2012
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02:53 EST, 23 November 2012
Cyber warfare: Tulisa Contostavlos took to Twitter to brand the mother of boyfriend Danny Simpson’s child a ‘liar’
For millions of young girls, Tulisa Contostavlos is the face of Saturday night television. And that’s becoming a bit of a shame.
No one expects hip hop singer Tulisa to behave like Snow White on a Sunday school picnic, but isn’t it all getting out of hand?
Fresh trouble has arrived in the rippling form of her new boyfriend, footballer Danny Simpson. Tulisa is besotted with the Newcastle United player and will do anything to fight for ‘my man’.
Caught up in a love triangle — that’s a polite way of putting it — Tulisa took to Twitter this week to settle some scores.
When the mother of Simpson’s child said she was newly pregnant with his second baby, Tulisa branded her a ‘liar’ and a ‘psychotic obsessed nutta’.
For good measure, she added that this woman’s story was ‘wrongen’.
She also described some of his ex-girlfriends — who suggested that Danny boy might not exactly be a knight in shining armour — as a bunch of ‘lying skanks’.
Tulisa is a disgrace. She puts her whole life through the prism of her Twitter account — and then complains when the responses she gets are not entirely to her liking.
Still, one of the great things about the social network site is that it shows people like her for what they really are. In all their raw and unfiltered, PR-free glory.
Within days of viciously berating a single mother on Twitter, Tulisa appeared in glossy adverts fronting her debut range of festive party clothes for BANK. ‘I can’t wait for Christmas this year. I absolutely love a game of Scrabble after I’ve cooked the Christmas dinner,’ she gurgled in an accompanying statement.
Scrabble? Surely they’ve got that wrongen. And I think we all know which version of Tulisa reality is the authentic one.
Still, is this really what the family-friendly X Factor want? To have one of their lead judges behaving like a chavtastic gangsta’s moll, screaming through space like a cyber-fishwife?
She is every parent and teacher’s
nightmare and increasingly comes across as the kind of baaad girl who
isn’t content unless she is fighting; someone who sees confrontation as
validation.
Tulisa launched her debut clothing line exclusively with Bank last month – TFB by Tulisa. In the statement announcing the launch she talked of her love of Scrabble
If Tulisa wasn’t famous she would be one of those terrifying women starting endless steel comb catfights over being ‘dissed’ by rivals.
She’d be brawling in nightclub loos, just like Cheryl Cole.
Tulisa has been an X Factor judge for nearly two years. Famously when she makes a grand entrance, she likes to flaunt an arm tattoo that reads: The Female Boss.
This is her favourite image of herself; that of a great she-commander in cool control of a slick business empire and a fabulous career. She sees herself as the empress of success, the big cheese from Camden, a proper businesswoman.
Of course, the reality is somewhat messier. Last year, the first whiff of scandal came when a former boyfriend leaked a sex tape of them together. It was awful for Tulisa and no one could blame her for the embarrassments that followed.
Sadness: Tulisa used Youtube to explain the sex video made with her then boyfriend Justin Edwards.
Except maybe for choosing the wrong person in the first place. And then agreeing to be filmed performing a sex act upon him.
Oh, say what you like about liberating sexual expression, filming sex on phones is a really, really silly thing for any young girl to do — with a very strong chance it will come back to haunt them.
By the same logic, it is then utterly crazy for anyone famous to do it, but The Female Boss always thinks she knows best.
Even when dealing with Stephanie Ward, the mother of her boyfriend’s 18-month-old daughter.
Even when Stephanie claimed to be 11 weeks pregnant with her and Simpson’s second child — a claim one assumes she is not making lightly.
A sensible woman, a real Female Boss, might have thought twice about dismissing a pregnant single mother as a ‘nutta’. At the very least, she might have made discreet enquiries, maybe even checked the details with someone other than Danny himself. Stopped to think.
Star: Tulisa appearing as a judge on X Factor. She blasted audiences for voting off Ella Henderson but has continually backled controversial singer Rylan
Instead, Tulisa chose the ancient, worn path of the deluded girlfriend everywhere. Which is to ignore all evidence to the contrary, and blame the other woman, not the man.
So she is not a good judge of character — but she is not even a good judge on the X Factor any more. When her best hope Ella Henderson was voted off last weekend, Tulisa moaned that the public had forgotten they were supposed to be voting on a talent show.
This from the woman who had continually voted to keep Rylan in, because she found him entertaining.
What a mess, both offstage and on. Bad calls, bad acts, bad thoughts, bad judgment, bad times, bad boys.
With someone like her at the helm, no wonder this year’s X Factor is gurgling down the plughole.
No, it is not all Tulisa’s fault. But she must bear her share of the blame.
Save us from Eamonn’s tiffs!
Quick, hide behind the sofa. Here come Eamonn Holmes and his wife Ruth Langsford.
They’re like that couple down the road you’d do anything to avoid. Up to and including moving house.
Yet the so-pleased stalwarts of the ITV morning sofa want you to know even more about them.
Acting like the new Richard Judy, the pair have filmed themselves arguing at home and invited YouTube viewers to judge their disputes online.
Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford have filmed themselves rowing at home and invited YouTube viewers to judge their disputes online
Thanks, but I’ve got an urgent appointment to de-worm the dog/ trepan my own skull/ smash the telly with an axe instead.
Haven’t we all? The series of films are called He Says, She Says — and Team Eam-Ruth seem to think this is a wholly entertaining prospect.
It would be — if Eamonn’s first wife was allowed to join in.
Domestic disputes? These two strike me as the kind of couple with a five-day-a-week housekeeper habit.
I suspect that at home, Ruth feels hard done by if she has to plump a cushion, while Eamonn sits in his La-Z-Boy recliner all day, watching telly and working his way through a tin of Quality Street as he shouts at other presenters who are more successful than him.
Even Richard and Judy don’t do Richard and Judy any more. Someone has got to stop them. Before it’s too late.
Aww, nice, The Duchess of Cambridge has released photographs of her trip to Borneo. Oh look, there is a forest, some planty things and an orangutan’s backside. Isn’t she invading the poor dumb creature’s privacy? Or have we been here before?
Some have said that the pix aren’t up to much, but I think they are rather sweet. She is an amateur, after all. Kate and William are privy to some amazing sights, so it is nice to share her point of view on some of them. Even if it is only a visual one.
No doubt experience will improve her prowess with a camera. And perhaps one day she could maybe publish them in a nice book?
Many of us would like to see that on bookshelves, perhaps alongside Celebrate by Pippa Middleton and I’m Only Here For The Beer by James Middleton. What a lovely box set for Christmas!
Oh, how we suffer — isn’t it about time to knock the Royal Variety Show on the head?
A hundred years on, it seems to have degenerated into a marketing tool for Simon Cowell’s organisation.
This year’s line-up read like the entries on page one of his bank statement.
For how much longer can we put the Queen and Prince Philip through the horror of Robbie Williams and One Direction?
Still, they seem to have their own coping strategies. ‘We never saw a thing. We’re also stone deaf,’ said a chipper Philip as he fled from the show.
Even the royals can’t disguise their apathy any more. Which just makes it more embarrassing.
What lingerie model could resist him?
For 11 weeks he thought he was chatting to an attractive woman online.
Instead he was being duped into a cocaine smuggling racket and ended up being jailed for nearly five years for drug trafficking.
British physics professor Paul Frampton thought that the pneumatic Miss Bikini World, Denise Milani, had somehow fallen in love with him.
Glamour model Denise Milani, whom British professor Paul Frampton, 68, claimed he thought he was contacting. He has been jailed for four years and eight months for drugs trafficking in Argentina
The 68-year-old from Kidderminster, who has a double first from Brasenose College, Oxford, was targeted when he was teaching at an American university.
In his distinguished career, the physicist predicted the existence of the exotic axigluon particle — he just couldn’t spot an even more exotic scam when it came screaming down his laptop, all flags flying.
Miss Milani was innocent and had nothing to do with the con; her images were only used by the gang to entrap Frampton. What was it about Miss Bikini World that so entranced him?
Hmmm, it’s hard to say — although there is no doubt about what he thought she saw in him.
Tell me, what nubile lingerie model can possibly resist the dandruffy charms of an English prof in a balding tweed jacket and Cornish pasty shoes?
We all know there is no fool like an old fool — even if we married him.
The scientist’s ex-wife, Anne-Marie Frampton, 71, still has a friendly relationship with him. This week she has described him as ‘a naive fool’ and someone who ‘lives in the stars’.
Makes you wonder what she’d say if they had fallen out.
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Tulisa is a very bad role model for young people. Even just by her spelling.
MJ
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London,
23/11/2012 14:17
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Your article is aggressive and unnecessary. She has made bad decisions in her past and havent we all, but attacking her like this is not right. Yes she’s now with a footballer. And yes he may have a pregnant ex-girlfriend but that isnt Tulisas fault. She worked hard to earn a good reputation and now yet again, some other fame hungry person is trying to take it away from her. If this is the best thing that you have to report on then surely you should stop wasting your time and get a better job.
David Sinclair
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23/11/2012 14:15
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this article claims that Tulissa should not judge and react when she doesn’t have all the facts but what Jan has done here is exactly the same in a slightly more elequant way. I am not Tulissa’s biggest fan but Jan you should be just as ashamed of yourslelf as Tulissa for these cutting judgmental comments. Shame on you.
robo
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23/11/2012 14:12
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This article is unfair and I agree, unnecessarily aggressive. Tulisa is a 25 year old woman, in the public eye, with every move noted and judged. She is trying to be herself and no one has the right to tell her how to live her life. She must feel an awful sense of being ganged up on, and i think Stephanie Ward, pregnant single mother or not, should behave with more dignity. But that’s my opinion and it’s up to her how she manages her feelings.
I feel sorry for Tulisa because it’s only a matter of time before this Simpson character publicly humiliates her. Tulisa is needy and some vile men love nothing more than to humiliate a vulnerable woman. And bitchy Ward will laugh herself sick, even though she won’t come out of it smelling of roses. All that matters to either of them is winning the man therefore the war, even though he’s no prize. Ladies, you don’t need a man’s approval to validate you!
Cat
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23/11/2012 14:12
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You can be very intelligent, an expert in one field and be a dunce in another.
This is why we all need to learn to recognise arguments from those in authority or from those with an authority in one subject area, and evaluate them with a skeptics toolbox.
As humans we all seem to be able to compartmentalise our brains. Thinking rationally and skeptically on some subjects and like idiots on other subjects.
Stan
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Newcastle,
23/11/2012 14:05
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Jan Moir, needs to keep it real. Get with it or retire. I’m amazed at your articles most the time. You are so out of touch.
Victoria Plum
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23/11/2012 14:05
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Yuk let them all have each other. The sad part is there are children born and unborn who have these people as parents. You just cant buy class im afraid.
lemon head
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23/11/2012 14:02
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Still, they seem to have their own coping strategies. ¿We never saw a thing. We¿re also stone deaf,¿ said a chipper Philip as he fled from the show
Oh I do hope this is true, so funny!
Mel1509
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Burnley,
23/11/2012 13:53
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DM, I hate the fact that you are trying to picture Tula as a uneducated woman. Well, she obviously is but stop making silly articles about her then. I don’t think she is going to go to university and get a degree, she is just a young woman who happens to be working for Simon Cowell, so everything about her comes under scrutiny and judgement, but what annoys me is that you are trying to get a reactio from the public. If she is happy with this chap, so wish her luck. The more you publish stories about her the more reactions youare going to get, we all know that, but this is just over nothing really.
Sally
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London, United Kingdom,
23/11/2012 13:46
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BRILLIANT and a very truthful article.. well written!!!!!
Jazy
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Nottingham, United Kingdom,
23/11/2012 13:45
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