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Joanna Perry
- Opinion
Opinion: WeChat – What Western brands need to know
With more than 700 million consumers using it daily, brands targeting Chinese consumers need a WeChat strategy.
- Opinion
Opinion: What can Next learn from Matalan?
Value players are giving their more upmarket competitors a run for their money when it comes to the omnichannel customer experience they provide.
- Opinion
Comment: Retailers - have you hired a head of mobile yet?
Apple’s share price has taken a hammering, and the company’s co-founder Steve Wozniak suggested it might be losing its “cool” status.
- Opinion
Comment: Why retailers are going cold turkey on discounting
Less can mean more for brands who are able to reset their customers’ perceptions of what good value means.
- Opinion
Comment: Will the Olympics mean gold for contactless payment?
What’s missing from a winning contactless strategy is the human element on the finish line – at the point of sale.
- Opinion
Time to shine at the BT Retail Week Technology Awards
Don’t forget those busy behind the scenes when you are celebrating the success of your business
- Opinion
Comment: New ways to pay that need a rethink
Is payment innovation really innovative if it involves glue?
- Opinion
Mobile payments momentum
Retailers are both excited and a little scared by the possibilities of mobile phones replacing wallets, finds Retail Week’s report.
- Opinion
BT Retail Week Technology Awards: Judgement day
All retail technology projects are not created equal.
- News
BT Retail Week Technology Awards shortlist announced
Many big name retailers and their suppliers in the running for an award that recognises excellence in innovation.
- Opinion
Retail Week Conference 2012: No crystal balls
Joanna Perry has been a journalist for more than a decade, specialising in technology, ecommerce and the retail sector.
- Opinion
The mobile multiplier
Joanna Perry has been a journalist for more than a decade, specialising in technology, ecommerce and the retail sector.
- Analysis
Retail 2012
Retail Week reveals the highlights from our latest free-to-subscriber research into forecasts from the UK’s leading retailers. Joanna Perry reports.
- News
Debenhams digital boss exits for Gucci
Debenhams’ digital head Harriet Williams has left the retailer to lead Gucci’s global ecommerce charge.
- News
BT headline sponsor Retail Week Technology Awards 2012
Retail Week is proud to announce that for the third year running, BT has signed up as the headline sponsor of the BT Retail Week Technology Awards. The awards are now open for entries, with the ceremony held in London on the June 19 this year.
- Opinion
Dollar Bill
Former US president Bill Clinton was the big speaker draw at New York’s NRF this year. But what does he know about retail?
- News
Carpetright IT and e-commerce director Ian Woosey made redundant
Carpetright group IT and e-commerce director Ian Woosey has been made redundant following a review of the business.
- Opinion
A future for fashion retail
Fashion retailers can’t afford to put barriers in the way of customers who want to make purchases. Technology will be crucial to the customer experience they deliver next year.
- Opinion
A year is a long time in multichannel
The definitive guide to the multichannel strategies of the largest UK retailers.