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Latest Retail Technology News
In pictures: PayPal Etail Awards 2012 winners revealed
The winners of the Retail Week and Drapers PayPal Etail Awards 2012 were announced at a ceremony in London last night.
Poundland launches mobile app
Poundland has launched a mobile app to inform customers about special offers and how to find its stores.
Etailers race to react to new EU cookies law
From Saturday May 26th, online retailers must obtain express consent from customers to set cookies – which harvest visitor data on websites – following a bureaucratic change branded a “waste of time” by ecommerce experts.
In Depth
How Facebook has changed retail
As Facebook floats with a valuation of more than $100bn, Retail Week asks what advantages the social network has created for retailers?
What's in store for the high street?
After years of economic turmoil and the advance of digital, the high street is undergoing a period of unprecedented change. Rebecca Thomson considers how things might look like in a decade.
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Choosing the right multichannel strategy
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High demand for multichannel skills
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How to cut energy costs
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Re-booting digital signage
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Retail Week Supply Chain Summit: Chain reactions
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Burberry: A great British success
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How can IT drive international expansion?
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IT’s quest for talent
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The world’s most innovative technology
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Retail Week Conference 2012: What topics will be covered?
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Technological innovation: Where can retailers invest?
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On the road to success
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10 ways to compete with Amazon
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Retail 2012
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The secrets of a successful store
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In pictures: Argos Christmas pop up shops in London train stations
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Push the button
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Making sense of unstructured data
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Life without loyalty
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How can in store music increase sales?
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Top five technology innovations for retailers
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Which retailers are capitalising on m-commerce?
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Are you being served?
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In pictures: Ocado's virtual shopping wall goes live
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How to cope as budgets shrink
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Affiliate marketing: Online retailers’ best friend
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Dunstone’s dream comes of age
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Making payroll easy
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The not-so-usual suspects
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In pictures: BT Retail Week Technology Awards 2011
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10 lessons to learn from Asos
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The future of payments
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Optimising the mobile transaction process
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The rise of online credit options
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How to reduce checkout abandonment
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Retail Week report: Mobile payment
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Analysis: Warming up shoppers to the new Tesco
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The store assistant of the future
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Global ambitions for Karen Millen
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Driving logistics efficiency
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John Lewis: IT integration takes flight
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The IT director’s changing role
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M-commerce: Making the most of mobile
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Multichannel directors: Driving a retail revolution
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Speeding up the spending process
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Is your supply chain process fit for purpose?
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Averting warehouse disasters
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Think local, think loyal
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Right technology, right time
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2011: The year in retail
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Multichannel Now: Executive Summary
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Price premiums
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A single customer view
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Which 100 brands are providing the best customer experience?
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Whistle while you work
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Building an infrastructure for international trading
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Can cloud computing help save money?
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Does the digital age mean the end for traditional store formats?
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Mark Horgan
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How to mix digital marketing campaigns with traditional media
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Crowd sourcing for retailers
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Turn on the Google box
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Talking about their generation
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The innovation generation
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A future proof investment?
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Is cash still king?
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Payment options for retailers on Facebook
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Taking payment overseas
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The catalogue retailer comes of age online
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Video and Whitepaper
Big changes to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) this June - will these affect you?
Comment
The EU Cookie Directive presents unique challenges for retailers
Retailers need to accept that cookies are now in the hands of the customer and concentrate on educating them.
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Blogging the latest in e-commerce and retail technology news, in association with BT.
Digital edition
Retail Week Customer Insight
Read the Retail Week Customer Insight supplement as a fully digital edition.
Need to Know
Interactive TV shopping: What do retailers need to know?
Interactive TV shopping is the latest opportunity to exploit in e-commerce, but retailers must act fast if they want to turn this channel into a winner.
Photo developing services: What do retailers need to know?
The digitalisation of photography has hastened the demise of traditional processing methods and retailers are acting decisively to stay up to speed.
Retail Surgery
How do I make sure salespeople know as much as consumers?
In today’s digital age, consumers are typically more informed than salespeople. How do we combat this?
