More than 80 per
cent of consumers now start their information search on the Internet.
Although the cruise sector is traditionally led by travel agent bookings, the findings show that 38 per
cent of consumers now book their cruise holidays exclusively online, an increase of 20 per cent on last year.
«It's no surprise that online scams are front and centre this year as more than 90 per
cent of consumers now shop online at any given time,» BBC BC...
Not exact matches
Equifax Canada said in a new report Monday Canadian
consumers now owe $ 1.821 trillion including mortgages as
of the fourth - quarter
of 2017, marking a six per
cent increase from a year earlier.
The median expectation
of consumer price inflation over the year ahead
now stands at 3.5 per
cent, compared with levels
of well over 4 per
cent in the previous couple
of years.
Educated
consumers could further drive up sales
of dark chocolate which, according to analysts Leatherhead International
now makes up 19 per
cent of the global chocolate market and is well - positioned for future growth.
European sales
of private label goods has
now reached $ 207 billion, accounting for 23 per
cent of total
consumer packaged goods spending, according to a recent Datamonitor report.
«In our colonial and pioneer days, most people raised their own food, but as our nation has become industrialized and urbanized, we find that
now only 7 per
cent of our population produces the food for our entire nation, and our
consumers generally buy their food in stores.
This has successfully been carried out with salt in the UK: most
of the products that we
now buy from supermarkets have 30 - 40 per
cent less salt, without the
consumer necessarily being aware
of it.
Equifax Canada says
consumers now owe $ 1.821 trillion including mortgages as
of the fourth - quarter
of 2017, marking a six per
cent increase from a year earlier.
The
consumer credit rating agency says the level at the end
of the third quarter was up 7.4 per
cent from $ 1.409 trillion a year ago, with non-mortgage debt held by Canadians
now standing at an average
of $ 20,891.
If 20 per
cent of your take home pay is going towards
consumer debt like credit cards or lines -
of - credit, then you are headed towards financial trouble and should get some help
now — not when you run out
of options.
Two out
of three (67 %) Chinese
consumers now prefer to travel independently, up five percentage points on 2013, while more than 60 per
cent of hoteliers have seen a boost in the number
of independent travellers in the last two years.
The growing sense
of global urgency over our twin crisis — climate change and energy security — is
now driving businesses to become green,
consumers to demand green and policy makers to drive policies to accelerate the market adoption
of green products.The most notorious subsidy is the 51 -
cent gas credit for ethanol.»
With 85 per
cent of consumers reading online reviews for local businesses (BrightLocal 2013 Local
Consumer Review Survey), real estate professionals can
now also benefit from the marketing power
of online reviews.
According to Genworth's survey, 56 per
cent of consumers surveyed across Canada feel that
now is a good time to be buying a home.