All Technology articles – Page 108
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DataData: three key trends of UK’s 30 most productive retailers
Want to know the winning formula for staff efficiencies? Recent Retail Week data suggests there are three trends shared by the country’s most productive retailers: many are pureplay, based outside London and specialise in fashion or food.
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NewsAmazon launches 'Clicks and Mortar' pop-up shops
Amazon is opening 10 pop-up stores across the UK to champion the products of more than 100 of its small business partners.
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NewsKlarna launches pop-up 'store of dreams'
Payment provider Klarna is releasing tickets for a week-long pop-up experiential event in Covent Garden featuring retailers previously only available online.
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NewsMicrosoft to launch Oxford Circus flagship in July
Microsoft has revealed the opening date for its first UK store as it throws down the gauntlet to rival Apple.
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NewsDecathlon launches 'cashierless shopping' across Dutch stores
Decathlon has launched “cashierless” mobile self-checkout capabilities across all of its stores in the Netherlands.
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NewsWalmart hires former Google and Amazon exec as CTO
Walmart has appointed a former Google and Amazon executive to “a new elevated chief technology officer and chief development officer role”.
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Retail VoiceThe invasive ads hijacking shoppers’ online journeys
Shoppers find them frustrating and retailers know they are damaging, so take back control of your customer journey with measures to prevent interruptions.
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NewsNew Waitrose online partner poaches long-serving Ocado exec
Today Development Partners, the newly launched ecommerce platform which partnered with Waitrose last week, has poached a senior staff member from technology rival Ocado.
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NewsWaitrose unveils location of site for new delivery depot
Waitrose has unveiled Enfield as the site of a new customer fulfilment centre, which it said will create “hundreds of new jobs”.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How to treat your retail superfans
It’s not just pop idols or sports stars that attract superfans. Retailers have a contingent of hyper-engaged followers too. How can retailers take advantage of this brand love?
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AnalysisAnalysis: Ocado co-founders square up for online delivery battle
Waitrose has come out fighting in the looming online grocery battle with M&S by linking with an unknown tech start-up launched by Ocado co-founder Jonathan Faiman. Will it give Waitrose the punching power to upset its soon-to-be ex-partner?
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AnalysisAnalysis: How to survive the 'high velocity retail' world
“The customer is no longer king. The customer is now master of the universe.”
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NewsOcado boss: Kroger will be number one in ecommerce
Ocado boss Tim Steiner believes its partnership with Kroger will transform the American grocer into “the number one player in ecommerce in the US”.
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NewsWaitrose reveals Ocado successor and £1bn online target
Waitrose has struck a deal with ecommerce platform TDP to succeed its Ocado partnership and plans to treble the size of its online business over the next three years.
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NewsJD.com exec Ling on the future of 'boundless retail'
JD.com executive Chenkai Ling believes retail will evolve into a “boundless” sector as new shopping channels emerge and combine.
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OpinionOpinion: Don't believe the hysteria over till-free stores
We all know it’s only a matter of time before Amazon Go reaches UK shores. Trademarks have long been registered, the rumours have been flying and, having debuted in New York City earlier this month, it’s fair to say that Amazon has an appetite for urban expansion.
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NewsGoogle launches tool to help retailers boost customer experience
Google has launched a new online tool aimed at helping retailers improve their customer experience across channels.
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NewsM&S seeks to end ‘it doesn’t fit’ worries with digital investment
Marks & Spencer has taken a stake in a specialist clothes-fitting technology company as part of its drive to enhance its digital capabilities and bolster its appeal to fashion shoppers, Retail Week can reveal.
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VideoTech. Cast: How to avoid retail’s ‘graveyard’
Retail Week and World Retail Congress SVP Chris Brook-Carter on how businesses can remain relevant in a multichannel world and avoid toppling into retail’s “graveyard”.