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AnalysisMoonpig: Success on the cards
It has pioneered the online greetings card market and now its competitors are playing catch-up. Lisa Berwin talks to Moonpig founder Nick Jenkins about the secret of the etailer’s rapid growth
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Opinion
Retail surgery: Protect your online brand name
How can I protect my brand when it comes to website domain names?
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OpinionLike-for-like differences linger on
A feature on like-for-like sales that I wrote a few weeks ago caused more controversy than was intended; and one retailer has quickly responded by issuing multiple sales measures for comparative purposes.
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OpinionCan retailers deliver the goods?
The postal strike has cast the spotlight strongly back onto the doorstep and with it the abiding challenge of ecommerce; the ‘Last Mile’, that final hurdle of fulfilment for pure-play and multichannel alike.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Ensuring minimum disruption during the postal strikes
The Royal Mail strikes will severely affect our online fulfilment. How can we keep track of everything and ensure minimum disruption?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Ensuring online shopping carts cope at Christmas
We lost business last year in the run-up to Christmas because our shopping cart couldn’t cope with the traffic spike. How can we prevent this happening?
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OpinionIs multichannel worth the money?
Investment in ecommerce and creating a multichannel customer experience is no longer optional according to the many retailers I’ve seen present at various ecommerce events in the past couple of weeks.
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AnalysisLike-for-like sales: time for a different measure?
Like-for-like sales figures are the measure the retail industry has traditionally judged itself on. But how relevant are they in the multichannel world and what can replace them?
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AnalysisAs e-readers launch, is it the last chapter for bookshops?
As Amazon launches its Kindle e-reader in the UK, George MacDonald asks if it will bring about bookshops’ demise, or if the world of print will prove resilient
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OpinionRetail can close the online divide
We need to start a wide-ranging national effort to ensure that as many people as possible are brought into the digital world.
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OpinionTwitter.com/Twelpforce
Best Buy has a reputation for excellent customer service and online savvy that has its UK rivals worried even before its debut here next year. Some of its efforts in social media are examples of both.
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OpinionTesco bids to step out of Asos’s online shadow
Tesco has launched what has widely been reported as its challenge to Asos; its much anticipated online clothing offer.
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OpinionConsumers go upwardly mobile
Retailers who believe that m-commerce is a long way off should think again with the news that there will be two mobile phone subscriptions for every three people in the world by the end of this year.The announcement, from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), that there will be 4.6 billion ...
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OpinionSocial media is ideal for online ads
Despite the growing evidence that customers spend more of their time these days online, retailers valiantly cling to traditional and long understood media like TVand press — Just 20% of retail media spend goes online.
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AnalysisNo more online excuses?
As etail continues to outpace other markets, retail giants such as Zara and Gap are finally gearing up to take the plunge online. Is there any reason for other laggards not to join them, asks Lisa Berwin
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OpinionRugby.com/iphone allows users to create their own shirt designs
Several cutting-edge technologies – mass customisation, QR barcodes and oversized touchscreen store displays – are cleverly combined in the latest campaign by Ralph Lauren sub-brand Rugby.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Ensuring customers can pass online CAPTCHA tests
We ask that customers complete a CAPTCHA test when they sign up for our website. How can we make sure that it is a test they can pass?
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OpinionBetter late than never for fast fashion online
In the space of a week, both the giants of fast fashion retailing — Zara and H&M — have overcome their resistance to selling online.