More online retail – Page 69
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OpinionOpinion: Substance wins over style for etail sales
There are myriad ways for retailers to adapt their ecommerce division, but which tactics have a tangible impact on sales?
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OpinionOpinion: Amazon’s Whole Foods deal looks like a mistake
While everyone talks about what the online behemoth’s acquisition of Austin-based Whole Foods means, could it just be an error of judgement?
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CartoonBlower’s retail cartoon: Alexa's Whole Foods mix-up?
Cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on the acquisition of Whole Foods by Jeff Bezos’ Amazon for $13.7bn.
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OpinionOpinion: Amazon gets physical with Whole Foods deal
Online Goliath Amazon has become the poster boy of market disruption, revolutionising everything from business models to shopping habits.
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AnalysisBloggers, boxes and brands: Beauty's new battlegrounds
Beauty has proven a resilient retail sector, but as the market becomes more crowded, are there stormy skies ahead for its traditional behemoths?
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OpinionBlog: Is fulfilment a new revenue stream for retailers?
First Amazon, now Zalando. Will third party fulfilment be run by retailers in the future?
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OpinionWhat Amazon’s Whole Foods deal means for grocers
The retail sector is used to change, but every so often an event occurs that shakes the industry to its core.
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AnalysisAmazon's acquisition of Whole Foods: what the experts say
What are the implications of Amazon’s shock purchase of grocery chain Whole Foods?
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AnalysisScarlett & Jo: Eyeing a plus-sized opportunity
When fashion retail entrepreneur Gifi Fields launched his career at the height of the swinging Sixties, clothes were designed with Twiggy’s waifish figure in mind.
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AnalysisSeven ways to navigate post-election uncertainty
As the retail sector’s current state of uncertainty looks set to continue, we identify seven things retailers can do to successfully navigate it.
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OpinionOpinion: Politicians could learn from retail
Whatever your perspective on the outcome of this year’s general election, I get the sense that many voters will have felt torn between policies, promises and people across the spectrum of political parties.
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AnalysisPower List 2017: Reinvention, revivals and Brexit
Few will be surprised about who is sat atop this year’s Retail Week Power List.
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OpinionRetailers battle for customer votes after election farce
Business confidence plummeted in the aftermath of last week’s tragicomic general election.
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AnalysisHow can Sir Philip Green stop the rot at Arcadia?
Fashion giant Arcadia, owner of famous fascias such as Topshop, Evans and Dorothy Perkins, suffered a steep fall in profits last year.
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AnalysisEcommerce and data hit hardest by seasonless fashion
Trans-seasonal buying is affecting the inner workings of fashion businesses in a range of different ways – find out how in Retail Week’s new report.
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DataData: Top 25 pureplay retailers by sales
Retail Week Prospect’s ranking of the largest UK-based pureplay retailers by overall sales throws up some surprise entries.
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OpinionBlog: Drones, clones and (self-driving) automobiles
This week two of the UK’s biggest grocers unveiled positively futuristic fulfilment trials designed to meet growing customer demand for super-quick delivery.
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AnalysisOpinion: Are merchandisers now data scientists?
There is not a day that goes by where we don’t hear the words ‘transformation’, ‘digital’ and ‘omnichannel’ in the same sentence.
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AnalysisThe disruptors: The firms setting trends in menswear
The menswear market is the latest focus of Retail Week’s ‘The disruptors’ series, which looks at the businesses creating waves across the industry.
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OpinionOpinion: The politics of the high street
As Britain goes to the polls, I’m going to resist the temptation to predict the outcome, especially after recent votes on both sides of the Atlantic.