More online retail – Page 114
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AnalysisIn the news: Kiddicare's new boss Chris Yates profiled
Kiddicare boss Chris Yates is no stranger to turning around a struggling retailer but his new role is unlikely to be child’s play.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Why did M&S’s new website fail to click into place?
Marks & Spencer’s relaunched website suffered a sales decline – could the retailer have succeeded with greater attention to customer needs?
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OpinionComment: Kiddicare can succeed again under new ownership
Kiddicare’s success relies on the retailer re-engaging with parents whose love of the business was once at the heart of its proposition.
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AnalysisAnalysis: BRC-KPMG June Retail Sales Monitor, sector by sector
UK retail like-for-like sales fell 0.8% in June, the lowest growth for three years, according to the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.
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OpinionComment: Argos’s digital hub feels like an energised start-up
When people think of Argos, that bastion of the high street, what usually comes to mind? I’d wager that laminated catalogues and small pens are uppermost in most people’s minds.
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OpinionComment: Retail needs to wake up to the potential of emerging technology
Some emerging technology solutions have the ambition and the ability to transform an entire industry - it’s time that the retail sector woke up to the fact that change is coming.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Fashion retail report explores how to take fashion forward
Fashion is set to be the retail success of 2014 but experts at Retail Week and Land Securities fashion report launch warn of remaining challenges.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Does mobile retail support or undermine the high street?
Consultancy Capgemini has reported that mobile sales had doubled in 2013 to £3bn.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can technology ensure consumers see retailer’s stores as destinations?
In order to be seen as a destination, retailers first need to consider what they are a destination for.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Is click-and-collect success killing home delivery?
As shoppers come to demand more convenience in delivery, retailers are responding with the most innovative period in the sector’s history.
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AnalysisApp review: John Lewis Vs Argos
Mike Cavers, executive creative director of DST Global Insights Group looks at the usability John Lewis and Argos’ app offers.
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CartoonBlower’s retail cartoon: Marks & Spencer’s website woes
Retail Week’s cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on Marks and Spencer’s online offer in the wake of Bolland’s denial of a ‘botched’ launch.
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AnalysisWhat lessons can retailers learn from the 2014 World Cup?
What lessons can retailers learn from the 2014 World Cup?
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OpinionComment: M&S fall in online sales highlights the risks of replatforming
The hostile reaction to M&S’s disclosure of an 8% decline in online sales, following the launch of its new website, is a timely reminder of the risks involved in major replatforming programmes.
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AnalysisIn the news: Tesco's new finance boss Alan Stewart
The departure of Marks & Spencer finance supremo Alan Stewart looks as if it came as unpleasant surprise to the food and fashion giant.
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OpinionNick Bubb's verdict: Marks & Spencer – a journey backwards
At a time when every multichannel retailer is relying on online sales to boost their overall like-for-like performance, at M&S it is the other way around.
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OpinionComment: When will Marks & Spencer fire on all cylinders?
If it’s not one thing it seems to be another at Marks & Spencer.
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OpinionComment: Asda’s continual innovation drives the retailer forward
Asda has continued to thrive in a rapidly changing retail environment by using innovation to make customers’ lives easier.
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AnalysisPeople: Why a bad AGM can mean bad news for staff
There are few more polarizing events in the calendar of a chief executive than the Annual General Meeting - and June’s job moves show staff often feel the consequences as well.
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AnalysisInfographic: Which retailers are leading the way in the cycling sector?
As the Tour de France speeds though the UK, Retail Week compares the figures of four leading retailers in the cycling sector.