All Technology articles – Page 138
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AnalysisThe retailer's passport to global ecommerce success
Consumer willingness to cross-border shop is being curtailed by persisting global ecommerce complications. Honesty and transparency will help negate the impact of these obstacles.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Five key themes from day one at Tech.
As day one of Tech. powered by Retail Week draws to a close, we analyse five of the key themes to emerge from the inaugural event today.
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VideoWatch: Facebook's retail director on driving discovery
Facebook’s retail and ecommerce director Martin Harbech discusses how mobile will drive product discovery and the future of shopping on social media
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AnalysisProfile: Halfords' new service-smart boss Stapleton
As Halfords prepares to bid farewell to yet another boss, the cycling and motoring specialist has invited a Dixons Carphone executive to take the wheel.
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NewsAsos tech director: 'You have to be obsessed with optimisation'
Asos’ technology director Andrea Trocino has said that retailers must be “obsessed with optimisation”.
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VideoWatch: Teams compete in the 24-hour Tech. Sprint
Contestants have 24 hours to build the connected shopping experience of the future and pitch their ideas to a panel of judges.
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NewsAmazon’s innovation boss on building ‘autonomous’ drones
Amazon innovation boss Paul Misener spoke about the retail giant’s development of its Prime Air service and making innovative decisions fast.
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VideoWatch: How Here East became a hotbed for tech innovation
Chief executive of Here East Gavin Poole discusses how the development of its technology campus in east London has encouraged innovation for retailers.
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VideoWatch: Inside Superdrug owner's content and etail lab
Superdrug owner AS Watson’s chief digital officer Dan Jarvis gave Retail Week a tour around the group’s London e-Lab and spoke about the group’s online ambitions.
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NewsLipsy to shut down website and drive sales through Next
Lipsy is shutting down its website as the business focuses on selling through its own stores and via partnerships with Next and Asos.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Pureplays tone down tech for debut stores
Established retailers have bent over backwards to digitise stores to attract younger consumers, yet online retailers opening physical space have stepped back from tech. Mark Faithfull asks whether retail is going back to basics.
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NewsAlibaba to unveil its first tech-driven shopping centre
Alibaba is building a five-storey shopping centre at its headquarters entitled ‘More Mall’ with a keen focus on merging online tech with offline shopping.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Ian Cheshire’s to-do list for tomorrow’s CEOs
The need for digital-savvy and creativity in retail’s future leaders opens the pool of candidates far beyond this sector.
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OpinionOpinion: Asos sets benchmark for embracing tech change
Cast your mind back 25 years, to a world in which digital giants like Amazon and Asos didn’t exist.
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AnalysisWhat to expect at our inaugural Tech. event
With less than a week to go before Retail Week’s inaugural Tech. event, we look at what attendees can expect.
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OpinionOpinion: The three tech-led models disrupting retail
The ability of technology to disrupt the retail market is well-known, but does the emerging trend of online to offline suggest that things may be changing?
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AnalysisAI in action: The transformation of retail
The opportunities presented by artificial intelligence are potentially transformative. And far from it being a technology of tomorrow, many retailers are already exploiting it.
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NewsBHS.com sales jump as website wins back shoppers
BHS.com has posted surging second quarter sales as the fledgling online business continues to attract new shoppers.
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OpinionOpinion: Automation means shopper-free shops
The trend towards automating everything in the interests of speed and ‘convenience’ is one to be wary of.