All Innovation & disruption articles – Page 90
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AnalysisAnalysis: The 10 most popular store galleries of 2013
Retail Week looks back over the 10 most popular store galleries of 2013.
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AnalysisAnalysis: The 7 biggest multichannel stories of 2013
Retail Week looks back over the 7 most popular multichannel stories from 2013.
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NewsTesco Metro launches augmented reality store fronts
Tesco has launched interactive Christmas window shops in twelve Metro stores around the country, including on Regent Street, with augmented reality technology enabling shoppers to scan and shop using their mobile phones.
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AnalysisMapped: London's retail and technology start-ups
London is full to bursting of innovative technology start-ups, many of which are directly or indirectly related to retail.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Highlights from Retail Week’s free Innovation Review report
From mannequins that can track the age, race and sex of retail customers, to fingerprint imaging that can activate bank cards, technological innovations are transforming the retail environment.
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AnalysisInnovation watch: Mixing coffee, whisky and shirts at Sydney's Shirt Bar
Nestled among the Amex, Westpac and Macquarie banks in the financial district of Sydney, Shirt Bar is a shirt store with a difference.
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NewsThe Hut launches £5,000 personalisation challenge for students
Etailer The Hut Group has launched a £5,000 programming contest challenging computer science students to make personalised user recommendations.
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AnalysisInnovation: Macy's trials Bluetooth transmitters
Macy’s - ever the mobile innovator - is trialling a service that uses Bluetooth location-sensing technology.
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GalleryIn pictures: Morrisons unveils its innovative 'lab' store in Preston
Morrisons has ratcheted up its focus on innovation with a new testing ground store in Preston as it attempts to inject dramatic retail theatre into its offer.
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AnalysisAnalysis: The 6 biggest retail technology stories of 2013
Retail Week looks back over the 6 biggest retail technology stories from 2013.
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NewsVideo: Inside Tesco's Erith dotcom centre
Tesco opened its seventh dotcom centre in Erith at the end of October.
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OpinionComment: Amazon drones on about its innovation – but are delivery octocopters future fact or fiction?
By 2018 our cities are set to be a lot busier, according to Amazon. Not only will we need to watch out for traffic and the umbrellas of jostling commuters as we walk down the street, we will also need to look out in the skies for descending drones – or octocopters as Amazon calls them.
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OpinionComment: Tesco's Mike McNamara on the grocer's latest technology innovations
The Innovation Team at Tesco never stops thinking about how we can use technology to help our colleagues and customers.
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NewsVideo: Amazon trials unmanned drones to deliver customer orders
Online retail giant Amazon is testing unmanned drones that could deliver products within 30 minutes of a customer placing an order.
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AnalysisInnovation watch: Tokyo chocolate shops providing gender-specific treats and candy theatre
Two very different, but innovative, confectionery concepts deliver experiential retail to sweet-toothed Tokyo residents.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How technology is fuelling Tesco's multichannel ambitions
Tesco home shopping managing director Simon Belsham has said technology is the key to creating a truly multichannel retailer.
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AnalysisDigital wallets: What do retailers need to know?
Visa has launched its digital wallet, V.me, across Europe and says it hopes 4,000 merchants will have signed up by January.
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OpinionComment: eBay's festive panto provides shopping inspiration... and fun
Those good people at eBay have a knack at capturing both zeitgeist and Christmas spirit every year.
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NewsBarker & Stonehouse plans augmented reality website
Furniture retailer Barker & Stonehouse is planning to launch an augmented reality website next year as it reveals an increase in sales and profits.
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NewsPop-up space provider Appear Here secures £1m funding
Appear Here, the online marketplace for short-term retail space, has secured £1m funding to grow the business across the UK.