Yodobashi Camera Online Site Ships Electronics The Same Day For Free Around Tokyo

Yodobashi Camera [J], one of the largest electronics chain store who also runs online commerce site, started and expanding the area for "the same day, free" delivery from Tokyo and around.

On Auguest 18, they announced [J] they would deliver items within the same day if ordered by 10 a.m. to Tokyo 23-wards. They also announced that nationwide shipment fee are waived "for the time being".

Only weeks later, September 1, they added more regions for the same day delivery and the deadlines for the order are improved.

By ordering before 1 p.m., Tokyo (excludes islands), Kawasaki and Yokohama residents can receive items on the same day. By 4 a.m., Miyagi pref. and Nagoya city can enjoy it.

Although Yodobashi does not offer some products Amazon Japan has, for example no food & beverage, and books are limited within PC/IT related, many categories are overlapped. (full list of categories on Amazon Japan [J] and Yodobashi Camera [J])

Amazon Japan introduced the same day delivery in autumn 2009, and offer free shipping charge in competition with Rakuten. But for the same day delivery, customers need to pay extra 500 yen (US$6.5).

Online consumers expectation for delivery in urban area in Japan has been becoming higher with these competitions.

Yodobashi Camera Online Site Ships Electronics The Same Day For Free Around Tokyo

Link to full article

Read More

Tablet Market Share In India – Samsung Rules The Chart

Tablets are the latest craze in India and while we certainly hope that tablet sales will make up for the PC revolution which India had missed out on.

As per a recent study (based on data from November 2010-March 2011), Samsung leads the tablet race in India with whopping 84.7% market share as opposed to Apple which holds only 5.9%.

Vendor	Market Share
Samsung	84.7%
Olive	8.2%
Apple	5.9%
Others	2.4%
Base	85,000 Units

Much of this is owing to distribution and marketing to price conscious crowd.

iPad2 in India

Having said that, market share in tablet business doesn’t mean much.  If you look at the recently launched Android tablets in India, they are just a case of cheap devices bought-in-bulk from China and offer no user experience.

Moreover, very few tablet manufacturers are geared to sell to enterprise customers (like restaurants/sales force etc) and unless that happens, we’d recommend you to stick to branded tablets (i.e. if not iPad, go for Galaxy Tab).

Like other markets, Apple doesn’t need to worry about the ‘device’ market share – the business of tablet starts once the user has bought the tablet and Apple knows this very well. For other device manufacturers, success is all about selling the device – but for apple, that’s the first touch point with the customer. What happens afterwards is a different story (heard of apps?).

What’s your opinion?

Link to full article

Read More