Online Shopping

Rather than send those old Kallax shelving units to landfill, you may soon be able to pocket some extra cash from Ikea. It has decided to dip a toe into the used furniture marketplace with an online platform named Ikea Preowned.

Last month Walmart put forward a kind of unnerving idea where couriers just go ahead and let themselves in to complete the delivery when the customer isn't home, something Amazon is now keen to test out with a new service called Amazon Key.

Would you be comfortable with a Walmart employee wandering into your home and restocking your fridge? What if you could watch on as they did it? The retail giant is at least looking to test out this possibly unnecessary concept through a new partnership with smart home security company August.

Online supermarket Ocado in the closing stages of a grocery delivery trial, where customers get their shopping delivered by a self-driving electric CargoPod. Developed by Oxbotica for the experiment, the vehicle uses sensors and software to make its way around without the need for GPS.

Amazon has announced that its Dash Replenishment Program has added a new set of devices, including Nestlé's baby food dispenser and a trash-tracker that monitors your garbage can's incoming traffic.​

We can shop without ever leaving the house, but there's still something nice about actually going to a physical store. Now, virtual reality might become a good middle ground, as eBay teams up with Australian retail brand Myer to let shoppers browse, examine and purchase items in VR.

Some say our tech-heavy world makes life more convenient. Others say it makes us lazy. We'll leave it to you to decide what you think about Sweden's new pilot program that lets you purchase groceries online and then have someone enter your home and put them in your refrigerator.

This year's Christmas shopping just got easier for Volvo drivers in Gothenburg, Sweden. The carmaker has launched its In-car Delivery service, which allows users to order shopping online and have it delivered to their car while they are elsewhere.

We all know the frustration of getting home from the supermarket only to realize we've forgotten something – or to find that someone else has also been. The Hiku grocery button is aimed at helping users to avoid shopping list mix-ups. it can even help users avoid going to the supermarket altogether.

No matter how sure you are of your size, buying clothes online always carries the risk that they won't fit correctly when they arrive. So Italian fashion startup Xyze has developed a smart measuring tape that records your body's dimensions and translates this to a brand's particular size chart.

If you're shopping for glasses online, it's important to know whether or not they will fit, and how they'll look on you. That's why Australia's CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) has developed the Smart Vision system.

A full 3D body scanner has been designed to make finding the perfect pair of jeans a lot easier.