Data Report: Black Friday Shopping in South Africa 2019

Black Friday originated as an American shopping holiday, held the day after Thanksgiving to indicate the start of the holiday shopping season, which has recently grown in popularity outside the [...]

Holiday Spending and Black Friday Shopping in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa

The holiday season is in full-swing and GeoPoll research experts have again become curious about how consumers are making purchase decisions around the holidays. In years past, GeoPoll has [...]

The rise of Facebook groups could be a threat to Jumia’s e-commerce dominance in Africa, new poll finds

Informal transactions through Facebook groups are threatening the success of e-commerce giants in Africa according to a recent straw poll on the impact of the Black Friday sale promotion on this [...]

Online Shoppers in Sub-Saharan Africa still don’t trust e-commerce sites despite adoption of Black Friday

A majority of  Sub-Saharan Africans do not trust online shopping sites, this is according to a recent GeoPoll  survey conducted in 5 African countries; Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa and [...]

Black Friday yet to pick up in Kenya despite growth in e-commerce

Unlike other mostly western countries, where black Friday is characterized by long lines of people braving cold days and nights outside major shopping malls, in Kenya, black Friday is simply a [...]

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