All Click-and-collect articles – Page 4
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Analysis
Geolocation: how location tech can transform retail
Retail Week looks at how to use location-based technology to better target and serve customers and explore what is possible.
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Analysis
Analysis: The store's changing role in the multichannel age
As the retail landscape is convulsed by change, the role of the store has never been more hotly debated.
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Retail Voice
Five new ideas for improving click and collect
Consumers expect a high level of service when they visit a store, yet many retailers are failing to deliver a truly exceptional click-and-collect service.
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News
Argos launches voice shopping with Google
Argos has rolled out a voice shopping service for Google Home devices that enables shoppers to order click-and-collect items.
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Opinion
Opinion: Amazon should follow Coke into coffee shops
Whitbread’s surprise sale of Costa Coffee to Coca-Cola for £3.9bn prompts the question of who else might have been in the race for a caffeine fix – or who perhaps should have been.
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Opinion
Opinion: Click and collect can be an ‘experience’
Whichever way you cut it, clicking and collecting has to be the ultimate non-experience that can take place in a store.
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Analysis
Analysis: Seven start-ups retailers should know about
The opportunities created by digital technology have created a flourishing start-up scene as young entrepreneurs aim to shift the business landscape.
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Analysis
Analysis: John Lewis will be 'a place to shop, do and learn'
Opened 10 years ago in White City, Westfield London’s most significant development will be unveiled this week – the opening of 740,000 sq ft more trading space.
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Analysis
Analysis: How Zara's click-and-collect store stacks up
As Zara opened its first ever click-and-collect store in Westfield Stratford, our stores editor John Ryan compares collection points across the sector.
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News
Asda adopts owner Walmart’s parcel towers in UK first
Asda has launched its first automated parcel tower designed to speed up online collections and returns for customers.
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News
John Lewis extends Christmas click-and-collect cut-off
John Lewis has extended the deadline to make click-and-collect orders in a bid to woo last-minute Christmas shoppers.
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News
CollectPlus boss Ashworth takes on additional Yodel role
CollectPlus chief executive Neil Ashworth is to take on additional responsibilities at owner Yodel, the delivery company.
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Interview
Retail Week Live: John Rogers on how to beat Amazon
Sainsbury’s pulled off the biggest retail acquisition of the year in 2016 when it snapped up Argos owner Home Retail Group in a £1.4bn deal.
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News
Sainsbury’s c-stores to launch Argos click-and-collect
Sainsbury’s has unveiled plans to launch an Argos click-and-collect service in 100 convenience stores as it ramps up its integration of the businesses.
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Interview
Interview: Evans Cycles' new boss Andy King
Evans Cycles’ new chief executive Andy King talks to Retail Week about catering for commuters and his strategy to pedal the business into profit growth.
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News
CollectPlus and Gett launch rapid retail returns service
Retail delivery and returns specialist CollectPlus has teamed up with on-demand transport app Gett to launch a rapid retail returns service for time-strapped consumers.
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Retail Voice
The seven biggest myths about omnichannel
How do leading retailers overcome the omnichannel fear factor? Technology firm Radial attempts to answer this burning question.
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Retail Voice
Three ways to reimagine the role of the store
In the wake of a very turbulent 2016 retailers are re-examining how their stores work, eCommera takes a closer look.
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News
Today in retail: Brexit needn’t mean retail blues
Among the looming “challenges” flagged in Super Thursday’s trading updates, Brexit no doubt featured in the minds of many.
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News
Breakfast briefing: BHS, Overseas retailers and more
Retail news round-up: MPs new plan to avoid BHS-like pension scandal, Online overseas retailers registering for VAT and retailers cancel click&collect service early