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78% of online shoppers will turn to Amazon if their preferred brand’s website is poor

on Sep 22, 2014 | 0 comments

By Jennifer Faull

It is vital for brands to allow consumers to buy directly from their website, according to an e-commerce study from Digital River, which found that 89 per cent of people would visit a brand’s website when shopping online, yet 31 per cent would “change allegiance” to a rival brand if they couldn’t buy an item directly online.

In the survey of 1,000 UK consumers, 78 per cent said they would buy an item from Amazon if they couldn’t get it directly through their preferred brand’s website. Only 22 per cent would go to a retail outlet.

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Source: The Drum