All Online retail & ecommerce articles – Page 536
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Waitrose to build online social hub
Waitrose has this week launched social networking site Mywaitrose.com to drive interactivity with its customers.
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Asos to up interaction with web community
Asos is planning to launch an online community channel on its website as it seeks to drive customer interaction with the fashion brand.
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Asos: Stock in focus
The fashion e-tailer, now capitalised higher than many main market-listed retailers, was a Christmas winner and is expected to continue blazing a trail.
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Online fraud: Enemies at the gates
Online fraud is still on the rise and the increasing complexity of multichannel businesses is only making it more difficult to identify and crack down on. Joanna Perry investigates
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Vente-privee sales soar 46%
French fashion e-tailer Vente-privee has revealed that sales jumped 46 per cent to 545m last year.
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Tesco Direct to introduce customer reviews
Tesco Direct has signed a deal enabling shoppers to review its products online.
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Retail like-for-likes up 1.1% in January
Like-for-like retail sales figures rose 1.1 per cent in January, the biggest increase since May, although the outlook remains 'challenging'.
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AnalysisMultichannel debate: On the pulse
Retailers’ multichannel strategies may have come a long way but there are still plenty of challenges. Joanna Perry joins some of the UK’s top e-tail directors to find out what their new priorities are
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Traditional home shopping retailers fail to engage customers
Catalogue operators are failing to fully engage with customers, as the home shopping sector continues to change gear to an increasingly online-dominated market.
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Adili launches own-label to reduce losses and lift brand
Ethical fashion e-tailer Adili is pinning its hopes on the launch of an own-label womenswear offer to help reduce losses and further its growth potential.
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Woolworths online rebirth to tap entertainment
Woolworths is to be reborn as a serious player in the online entertainment market under the ownership of Shop Direct.
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Argos email campaign lifts customer review response
Argos has generated a massive volume of customer reviews after running an email campaign in January to encourage customers to provide feedback on the products they had recently purchased.
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Opinion
Snow shows the web is a lifeline for consumers
The snow of early this week highlighted just how important the internet has become to society. Retailers should take every opportunity they get to benefit from this.
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The White Company sales leap over Christmas
Upmarket homewares and clothing retailer The White Company saw sales climb 14 per cent in the 10 weeks to December 27.
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Mail order clothing sales hit £56.5m in December
Sales of clothing through mail order hit 56.5m in December.
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Google glitch temporarily halts access to all e-commerce sites
Many internet surfers could have been forgiven for thinking the whole internet was broken on Saturday, after a problem with Google left users unable to access any internet sites.
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EBTM sales plummet
EBTM, the online retailer of music inspired fashion, has revealed losses of 435,352 before interest, tax and depreciation in the six months to October 31, 2008.
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NewsTesco to launch own-label fashion website
Tesco is set to launch an online fashion store selling its own-label clothing ranges.
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Amazon reports strong Christmas
US online giant Amazon continued to storm ahead of the competition, boosted by strong Christmas sales with net sales in the final quarter of 2008 up 18 per cent to US$6.7bn ( 4.6bn).
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NewsAmazon poised to launch UK online grocery range
Amazon UK is set to shake up the grocery e-tail market with the launch of an online food offer.