All Online retail & ecommerce articles – Page 528
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Amazon could face £73.8m tax bill in Japan
E-tail giant Amazon could face a $119m (£73.8m) tax bill in Japan for unreported income over a three-year period.Local reports said that Japan’s tax bureau judged that because part of Amazon’s operations are Japan-based, an income report of tens of billions of yen should have been submitted and therefore would ...
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NewsMysears.com: Sears adopts OpenID platform
US retail giant Sears has adopted the OpenID platform to more closely connect the social networking sites it runs for its Sears and Kmart chains with sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
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NewsSocial site teams with aggregators to push products
Website iVillage.co.uk, an information network that targets women, has partnered with shopping aggregator sites Mydeco.com and ShopStyle.co.uk to integrate products within its content pages.
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OpinionBecome part of the story
Retailers should make the most of the media circus to raise their profiles, says Jacqueline Gold
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NewsCelebrities signed to mark rebrand of Littlewoods Direct as Very.
A raft of fashion faces and celebrities have been signed to celebrate the rebranding of Littlewoods Direct as Very.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Hidden costs when relaunching e-commerce sites
We plan to relaunch our e-commerce site and have been given a cost for development. Will there be any hidden costs for the business?
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OpinionWindow shopping has moved online
A look at some recent results shows interesting diversity in the world of online retailing.
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OpinionHas the retail information age arrived?
One of the main conclusions of Retail Week’s webinar on information management recorded last week was that all the data retailers need to maximise their businesses is already there – what’s needed now is staff and systems who can make use of it.On a blisteringly hot day in central London ...
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NewsN Brown sales up 5.1 per cent
N Brown has made a strong start to its financial year with continued growth across its home shopping brands and a 5.1 per cent rise in turnover in the 18 weeks to July 4.
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NewsShoppers flock to buy Michael Jackson music
Entertainment retailers have reported a surge in sales of Michael Jackson’s albums after the sudden death of the music legend last week.
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NewsAsos’s staggering growth expected to slow
Heavy high street discounting and unemployment among younger shoppers is likely to slow the meteoric growth of Asos.
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AnalysisWhat it’s like to work at…Firebox
The inside view from Firebox managing director Christian Robinson
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OpinionRetail surgery: What to expect from law requiring screening of online customers
We have heard a law is coming in that will require us to screen our online customers to check their age. Is this going to be difficult and expensive to do?