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Meijer launches product locator app
Meijer has launched a product locator app called Find-it, built upon Point Inside’s mobile destination content platform. Shoppers will be able to see the location of more than 100,000 items in a Meijer store using their smartphones, eliminating the need to ask store employees where to find particular items. The ...
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OpinionZara and H&M set to fight it out for online share
Zara’s move onto online is likely to generate a great deal of interest, which will include praise and criticism, as the world’s largest fashion group Inditex finally embraces the world of online.
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NewsZara unveils transactional website
Zara has unveiled its new transactional website allowing UK customers to buy its entire fashion collection online for the first time online.
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NewsAdvertising regulations extended to social media sites
Advertising regulations will be extended to cover retailers’ websites and non paid-for messages on social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter, from March 1 next year.
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NewsOcado shares fall again on analyst comment
Online grocer Ocado saw its share price fall yesterday (August 31) after a leading retail analyst predicted a decline in its market share and questioned its growth strategy.
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NewsEBay to push fashion credentials through major advertising push
EBay is preparing to launch its autumn advertising campaign, its biggest yet, to push its Fashion Outlet offer.
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NewsAndy Bond gets a Wiggle on
Former Asda CEO Andy Bond is back in the saddle as he takes a stake in fast-growing bikes etailer Wiggle
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AnalysisRetailers test online behavioural re-targeting
Targeting online advertising based on consumers’ browsing history is a contentious issue and for retailers there are both pros and cons to behavioural re-targeting
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OpinionTwittering on about social media
It is right and essential for retailers to invest more heavily in social media in the war for customers. But what use is all this interaction when we still get the basics wrong and on a daily basis alienate existing and potential customers?
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AnalysisBrands: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again
Joining the ranks of high street failures such as Zavvi and Woolworths, high-profile retail casualty of the recession MFI is being resurrected as an online brand. But can failed or struggling brands successfully put their tattered reputations behind them and regain trust
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NewsStruggling Fat Face hit by another departure
Lifestyle retailer Fat Face has suffered another blow to its ecommerce arm with the resignation of ecommerce and communications director Dan Miles, less than four months after taking the role.
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NewsFreemans thinks big as it returns to profit
Home shopping group Freemans Grattan Holdings claims it has returned to profit after a major business restructuring, and plans to launch a plus-size offer for customers early next year.
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NewsTheo Paphitis builds team for DNA Lingerie brand launch
DNA Lingerie, the lingerie retail business being developed by entrepreneur Theo Paphitis, has appointed former Schuh head of ecommerce Dan Lumb as ecommerce director and is expected to open its first stores in the spring.
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NewsOcado shares continue to freefall
Ocado has suffered a disappointing first month of trading on the London Stock Exchange, with its shares losing 20.7% of their value.
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OpinionRetail surgery: What does a mobile version of an ecommerce site need in terms of features and functionality?
What does a mobile version of an ecommerce site need in terms of features and functionality?
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OpinionM&S’s online food for thought
Ocado’s share price since flotation and its ongoing attempt to become profitable will be of consuming interest to retail directors other than just the online grocer’s. Among them no doubt is Marks & Spencer chief executive Marc Bolland, who is gearing up to unveil his strategy this autumn.
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NewsGap sites go live
Gap Sites go live Gap and Banana Republic were due to launch their long-awaited European transactional websites today.
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NewsSite goes live ahead of Asos Marketplace launch
Fashion etailer Asos has today launched a holding page for its Marketplace website, which will become a global marketplace where shoppers and independent retailers will be able to buy and sell clothing to fellow consumers online.
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OpinionI Like.com
Want to know what Google might come up with next to help consumers research products online? Well take a look at its latest purchase, visual search start-up Like.com.
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NewsTesco to open drive-through supermarket
Tesco will this week launch the UK’s first drive-through supermarket in Baldock in Hertfordshire.