{"id":352839,"date":"2020-05-20T15:16:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=352839"},"modified":"2020-05-20T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T13:18:08","slug":"most-popular-products-on-takealot-revealed-which-include-a-few-unexpected-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/352839-most-popular-products-on-takealot-revealed-which-include-a-few-unexpected-items.html","title":{"rendered":"Most popular products on Takealot revealed, which include a few unexpected items"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 14 May, the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition published new regulations<\/strong><\/a> which allowed all goods to be sold through ecommerce platforms, except for alcohol and tobacco products.<\/p>\n

Allowing unrestricted ecommerce was widely welcomed as it is a great way to allow business to continue with limited risk of COVID-19 transmissions.<\/p>\n

Takealot Group CEO and founder Kim Reid said ecommerce is a segment which can operate with a far lower risk of COVID-19 transmissions than brick-and-mortar retail channels.<\/p>\n

Many online shops, including Takealot, saw very high levels of activity after they opened their full catalogue of products to be sold.<\/p>\n

An interesting trend, said Reid, was the influx of new buyers trying online shopping for the first time, specifically on mobile.<\/p>\n

This bodes well for ecommerce in South Africa, which is expected to receive a welcome boost during the extended COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n

Most popular products on Takealot<\/h3>\n

When the ecommerce restrictions were lifted, Reid predicted<\/strong><\/a> that household appliances, TVs, PlayStation, and toys were likely to be popular. He was correct in his prediction.<\/p>\n

Takealot has released the purchasing trends during the first few days after the opening of ecommerce, and it includes the items which Reid anticipated would sell well.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsidering the shift to homeschooling and working from home, most trends are expected,\u201d Takealot said.<\/p>\n

There were, however, a few unexpected items which made the Top 10 list, including exercise equipment and non-alcoholic beer.<\/p>\n

Here are the most popular products and the top search terms on Takealot since Friday.<\/p>\n

Most popular products<\/h3>\n
    \n
  1. Vacuum Cleaners<\/li>\n
  2. Laptops<\/li>\n
  3. Gaming consoles<\/li>\n
  4. Treadmills & home gym equipment<\/li>\n
  5. Media Players<\/li>\n
  6. SIM cards & airtime vouchers<\/li>\n
  7. Face shields<\/li>\n
  8. Ink cartridges<\/li>\n
  9. White A4 paper<\/li>\n
  10. Non-alcoholic beer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Top searches<\/h3>\n
      \n
    1. TV<\/li>\n
    2. Laptops<\/li>\n
    3. Lego<\/li>\n
    4. PS4<\/li>\n
    5. Vape<\/li>\n
    6. Toys<\/li>\n
    7. Xbox One<\/li>\n
    8. PlayStation 4<\/li>\n
    9. Gym equipment<\/li>\n
    10. Face mask<\/li>\n
    11. iPhone<\/li>\n
    12. Heater<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Now read: Takealot is now selling everything<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Takealot has revealed the most popular products in its online store after the restrictions on ecommerce were lifted, which include a few unexpected items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":343475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[35,1179,995],"class_list":["post-352839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-kim-reid","tag-takealot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352843,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352839\/revisions\/352843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}