Amazon helps sate Aussie tech appetite
Love or hate Amazon (Gerry Harvey is in the latter camp) it is down under with a massive 24, 000 square metre fulfilment warehouse in Melbourne’s Dandenong Sout...
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Coles tasks Airtasker for personalised home deliveries
Coles shoppers in Sydney can now use a qualified Coles shopper Airtasker to go to the store, select your groceries and deliver them to you at the time you speci...
Samsung partners with Woolies so you can order food from your Family Hub refrigerator
The new Woolies app lets you order food directly to your Samsung Family Hub refrigerator....
eBay, Myer make VR the department store of the future
Brick and mortar shops have always been under threat from the internet, but virtual reality could change everything, and two of Australia’s biggest shopping places has created a world first to test it with....
Gumtree reveals how much Aussies love new phones
We can tell you better than most that there’s a new phone almost every week, and sometimes more, but based on research from an online classifieds website, we love new phones to the point where we’re happy to sell of our old ones super speedily....
Farmers get in with a supermarket for the iPad
Sometimes the best experience is the one that’s most familiar, and that’s the angle an online supermarket has taken, delivering an app with the experience of browsing your local....
Gumtree reveals who the real early adopters are
Whenever there’s a new iPhone, all the early adopters and easy upgraders come out of the woodwork, but one of the online classifieds companies has revealed that yup, it’s true, we love selling old models to buy the new ones....
Paypal gets into free returns for online retailers
Some people just don’t see the draw in online clothes shopping. Oh sure, you can save money, and you don’t have to line up behind anyone, but what if the clothing doesn’t fit you? Well if that’s the chief concern, PayPal may actually have a fix....
Sophos security specialist says shopping shows in search (and here’s how to stop it)
Planning a nice gift for that special someone? Beware, because if you’ve spent a pretty penny and plenty of hours of research, the secret might be out long before you give that gift....
Christmas music comes to online shopping as Spotify teams up with eBay
Shopping centres are notorious for playing Christmas music in December, but if you do all your shopping online, you miss out. Online to the rescue, though, because if you’re a Spotify member and you’re using eBay this year, you don’t have to....
Finally, a good use for QR codes: MasterCard shows a new way to e-pay
Square barcodes have never really found a useful place in society, stuck somewhere between posters and ways to set up your printer, but MasterCard has been working on something, and it's pretty freakin' cool....
Woolworths offers inbound travellers a chance to buy milk before going home
You've flown off to a different state or country for business, and now you're coming back and you don't know whether there's fresh milk at home for tea. Rather than go out shopping when you get back, Woolworths is trying a different solution, and Melbourne Airport is the first place to get it....