From smart phone applications to everyday appliances, more than a thousand products are road tested by CHOICE every year.
Now CHOICE’S members and visitors will be able to purchase those products online armed with the best prices from the most suitable retailers.
The consumer group has announced it is teaming up with leading comparison shopping site Getprice in a partnership that will provide price information about a range of products with an option to purchase.
“This partnership with Getprice will provide members and visitors a channel to instantly …

Online media company Yahoo!7 and Australia’s leading online comparison shopping destination Getprice have today joined forces to create a new online comparison shopping initiative – Yahoo!7 Shopping.
Through its partnership with Getprice, Yahoo!7 furthers its goal of partnering with industry leaders and innovators.
The new destination will be available on the Yahoo!7 Network and will provide independent price comparisons for over 2.4 million products from 1000 merchants in 500 individual categories.
The site will also fully integrate with Yahoo!7 Answers. Each time a visitor searches for a product …

Australian flower retailer 1300 FLOWERS today announces the friendly acquisition of the privately held Fast Flowers Group. The acquisition further cements 1300 FLOWERS’ position as one of Australia’s leading floral retailers.
1300 FLOWERS’ chairman Jack Singleton says he is “delighted by the transaction that brings Fast Flowers under the 1300 FLOWERS umbrella. Fast Flowers has strong brand recognition and has grown to become an industry leader over the last decade. This is testament to the abilities of CEO Jonathan Barouch and his management team”.
1300 FLOWERS will take operational control of the …

In a recent interview on ABC’s Inside Business, Myer CEO, Bernie Brookes comments that online sales would be “one of our three or four big drivers” of growth.
“For us it’s very profitable for the simple reason that you get no cost of fulfilment, you only get the cost of freight. So this can be an enormous opportunity for us going forward, but we’ll move along with the customers.”
Click here to read the full interview transcript.

Consumer domestic online spending accounts for only 3% of total retail sales
SYDNEY, 20 July 2010 – Australia’s consumer eCommerce market is underdeveloped, lagging both the US and UK markets by approximately three years according to the latest eCommerce analysis issued by consulting company, Frost & Sullivan. Online retail consumer spending in Australia in 2010 is expected to account for approximately five per cent of total retail sales, however if spending on overseas sites is excluded, this drops to around three per cent. In contrast, online as a percentage of total …