Xmas shopping sucks and costs business big bucks
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Blog, Internet, e-commerce on
With the holiday season fast approaching, many of us are starting to consider doing the Xmas shopping. For an ever increasing number of people that means avoiding the high street crowds and high street prices by heading online instead. Unfortunately, while the shopper is saving money the same cannot be said for the employer if that shopping is done on work time. A new set of surveys reveals that the average cost to business this Xmas could be as high as
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