91% of back-to-school shoppers find online purchasing stressful
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91% of back-to-school shoppers find online purchasing stressful

SOASTA, which specializes in performance analytics, has unveiled the findings of its annual SOASTA Back to School Shopping Report Card, which found that nearly all (91%) of parents who plan to shop online for back to school report there are stressors for them when making online purchases for the new school year.

According to SOASTA’s research, back to school online shoppers cited shipping costs (57 percent), out-of-stock inventory (51%) and not being able to see or test the product before buying (50%) among the top stressors when shopping online for back to school. Additional frustrations they’ve experienced include:
 
° Credit card security – 30%;

° Slow load times – 27%;

° Page crashing in the middle of a transaction – 25%;

° Hard-to-navigate websites – 23%;

° Out-of-date website and buying process – 19%.
 
While most back to school online shoppers report feeling stressed while making their online purchases, SOASTA’s research confirmed that a majority of back to school shoppers (55%) do plan to shop online for the new school year, with nearly 1 in 5 (17%) planning to shop using their smartphone or tablet. Millennials are the most likely to shop online for back to school, with 66% of men ages 18-34 and 63 percent of women ages 18-34 planning to shop online to get their families ready for back to school.
 
Among the items back to school online shoppers plan to buy online, more than one-third (36%) say they plan to buy clothing, and nearly one third (33%) say general school supplies (such as pens, folders and notebooks) are on their online shopping lists.
 
SOASTA’s research revealed that nearly three-quarters (73%) of smartphone/tablet owners would use a shopping app such as Amazon, eBay and Zappos to do their shopping.  Nearly half (49%) of smartphone/tablet users would use a shopping app when looking for deals, and more than one-third (37%) would turn to a shopping app for price comparison when shopping in a store.

This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of SOASTA (www.soasta.com) from July 14-16, 2015, among 2,056 adults ages 18 and older. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.

 

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