All Online retail & ecommerce articles – Page 412
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OpinionBlog: Amazon offers customisable pages and posts
Online giant Amazon has launched Amazon Pages and Posts to improve the look, feel and performance of other retailers’ pages on its site.
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NewsAmazon debuts luxury fashion offer
Amazon has launched a new upmarket fashion site in a bid to emulate the likes of Net-a-Porter.
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NewsJohn Lewis achieves record online sales last week
John Lewis sales jumped 9.3% to £124.2m last week, representing the third best week ever at the department store group and its best ever week online.
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NewsRetailers braced for Cyber Monday
Retailers are today bracing themselves for what they expect to be the busiest online shopping day of the year.
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Opinion
Blog: eBay is putting the fun into Christmas shopping
It’s not Christmas without an eBay festive themed pop-up shop.
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GalleryIn pictures: eBay's social media pop-up shop
Online giant eBay opened the door to it Social Shopping pop-up store in Covent Garden today, which features screens displaying up to the minute social media trends for the top gifts this Christmas.
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Opinion
Blog: Ignore your customers and provide them with a better service
‘The customer is king’ is a long accepted truism in retail. Everything retailers do revolves around the customer.
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NewsAnalysis: Gap UK faces fierce competition
Despite 25 years in the UK, the US fashion giant has struggled to find its gap in the market.
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AnalysisCampaign of the week: Argos, I Can Shop From Here
Argos declared its intention to move away from its traditional catalogue heritage last month and instead focus on multichannel.
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NewsThe future of Comet hangs in the balance
Comet’s future hangs in the balance as crunch talks between administrator Deloitte and potential white knight Clive Coombes commence today.
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OpinionComment: Christmas will be the real multichannel test
The sceptics remain in the ascendancy when it comes to whether the UK can replicate the consumer feeding frenzy witnessed around Black Friday in the US.
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OpinionComment: Retail today is web, web, web
Consumers can fulfil their every need online, so it’s vital retailers invest.
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AnalysisSites: Waitrose Vs Sainsbury's
Dominic Monkhouse, managing director of PEER 1 Hosting, shares his view of good and bad apps.
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NewsDixons to scale back Pixmania business
Dixons is to pull its loss-making Pixmania business out of a number of markets, cutting staff and closing stores in the process.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Sir Philip Green - 10 years at the top of fashion
In his decade-long tenure at Arcadia, Sir Philip Green has confounded his critics, rode out tough trading and pushed his retail empire in new directions.
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OpinionBlog: Google glasses make me feel like Marty McFly
Former Shop Direct boss Mark Newton-Jones was waxing lyrical about the rise of mobile shopping at our sister magazine Drapers’ Fashion Summit last week.
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InterviewInterview: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on Littlewoods' Facebook TV show
Littlewoods launched the latest installment of its popular Facebook TV Show Littlewoods Live last week which had nearly 5,000 viewers tuning in. Gemma Goldfingle speaks to one of its charismatic hosts Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen to find out how to the format works and why using social media in retail is crucial in the digital age.
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AnalysisCyber Monday: What do retailers need to know?
Cyber Monday falls next week and is forecast to be the busiest online shopping day of the year. Retailers need to prepare for a surge in traffic and orders.
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NewsEBay to launch social media pop-up store
EBay is opening a social media-led pop-up shop on Friday on what the retailer expects to be its busiest online shopping weekend.
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News
C&A rolls out click-and-collect services
Clothing retailer C&A has rolled out click-and-collect services across its operations in Germany.The service will allow customers to pick up items ordered online from any C&A store, at no extra charge. It came a week after rival retailer Karstadt unveiled a similar service.“With click-and-collect, we come one step closer to ...