Indix Releases New Data Report Highlighting Consumer Shopping Trends

SEATTLE, Nov. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Indix, the Cloud Catalog company that provides structured product information via Data-as-a-Service, today released a new data report titled, "A Look Into Consumer Shopping Behavior." This comprehensive study on the trends taking place both online and in-store provides brands and retailers insights into how factors like price, discovery, and availability influence whether or not a purchase is made.

The independent survey was conducted in partnership with Research Now, a digital data collection company and market research firm. The report examined several aspects of consumer shopping behavior, of which the following key findings were identified:

• Women prefer to purchase products in store (43 percent vs. 36 percent), whereas men prefer to shop online (31 percent vs. 24 percent).
• Women are less likely to purchase products online if shipping and handling is expensive, and men are less likely to purchase products online if they aren't able to make comparisons between products.
• 34 percent of respondents ages 18-34 still purchase goods in store once a week.
• 62 percent of Millennials are concerned with mobile app payment security, whereas only 40 percent of those ages 55 and older are concerned. At the same time, 55 percent of women worry about mobile payment security versus 44 percent of men.
• Millennials are more likely to shop from a preferred store than any other generation.
• PayPal is the most popular payment method for online purchases, and the Starbucks app is the popular mobile payment method against other options such as Google Pay, Apple Pay and Venmo.

"Purchases at brick and mortar stores are at an all time low, and at the same time, consumers are using their mobile devices to make purchases more frequently than ever before. Yet, retailers and brands still struggle to provide their customers with a seamless shopping experience that bridges both physical and online stores," said Sanjay Parthasarathy, CEO and founder, Indix. "We conducted this survey to not only better understand the shopping preferences of different generations, but to gain insight into how we may be able to better help our customers deliver the right product offer to the right person, at the right time, and through the right channel."

To download a copy of the full report, please visit https://www.indix.com/consumer-shopping-survey/.

About Indix

Indix is building the world's first Cloud Catalog. Using patented technology, Indix collects product offers data such as price, availability, and seller information along with product catalog data like code-based identifiers and attributes from a combination of the web and its partners. Indix engineers use AI and machine learning to gather, structure, clean, and verify product information from thousands of websites and feeds, and then surface this product information through a Product API and Product Feeds to help customers make better decisions, drive innovation, and sell more products. With more than one billion product offers from 1,600+ sites and nearly 50,000 brands, only Indix has the scale and quality of product information needed to power the future of commerce.

For more information, please visit http://www.indix.com.

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