(Source: B&T Magazine) Australian consumers have a high tendency to abandon virtual shopping carts, with 57 per cent discarding their carts sometimes or all the time, particularly in the product categories of fashion (67 per cent) and furniture (65 per cent), according to findings from the SAP Consumer Propensity Study. The research found that Australians are also price-savvy, with 60 per cent of Australian consumers abandoning their shopping chart due to shipping costs and 4

(The Source: The DRUM) Both companies are hoping that the merger will deliver annualised cost savings of at least $50 million over the next two years. Australian media companies Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment will merge at the end of 2018 to form a new company called Nine, subject to regulatory clearance. Nine will include a free-to-air television network, Fairfax's newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and The Age, property listings portal Domain, subscription vid