The MFI furniture retail brand is reborn online today, offering ‘affordable luxury’ and launch discounts of 60%. But will this be enough to guarantee success for a pureplay furniture retailer in an increasingly multichannel world?

Charles Tyrwhitt, the upmarket shirts retailer, has chosen multivariate testing technology from Maxymiser in order to boost its online sales.

Christmas is always a time of giving, increasingly unwittingly to online fraudsters. As more shoppers turn to mobile and social this season Michael Norton, Managing Director of PayPoint.net looks at what retailers should be doing to combat the associated rise in fraud in the run up to Christmas this year

As many as a third of UK consumers have made a purchase using a mobile website this year, and 26% have done the same using an app, according to research of 1000 consumers carried out by EPiServer. However, the study also finds that the mobile internet is not free of frustrations, with as many as 35% of consumers finding logins difficult

Mobile shopping is becoming an increasingly significant factor in driving sales and overall brand affinity, finds a survey by Limelight Networks. The survey results suggest that retailers who create smooth, rich mobile experiences can increase conversions and build their brands with consumers purchasing on their mobile devices, on their computers, and in the store

Many UK retailers are losing out on sales due to poor usability of their mobile web presence, according to Hitting the Mobile Checkout, a new report from eCommerce consultancy, dotCommerce. Only one third of retailers surveyed had dedicated mobile sites available, dramatically impacting a positive buying experience

You won’t need your wallet to go shopping on Britain’s high streets in 2016 according to a new report by PayPal, which says in its report ‘Money: The Digital Tipping Point’ that 2016 will be the year when UK shoppers will be able to use their mobile phones to pay for things on the high street with digital money rather than cash, cheques or cards

Simply providing consumers with the convenience and functionality of mobile wallet technology will not be sufficient to drive mass-market adoption, asserts Mobey Forum in a new white paper out this week

House of Fraser, a leading UK premium department store group, is partnering with network operator O2 to deliver a range of mobile services – from free in store wifi to targeting mobile marketing – to create more mobile engagement in the run up to Christmas

Global luxury fashion brand Jaeger has launched a new transactional mobile site, created by DesignUK, to close the circle on its multichannel strategy that will give Jaeger customers across the globe a consistent shopping experience

Paul Childs, Chief Marketing Officer, Adfonic talks us through a week-by-week guide for retailers as to how to most effectively use mobile as a marketing channel to reap the full benefits of mobile this Christmas

Now That’s What I Call Music! the UK’s biggest selling compilation series ever, has added mobile augmented reality to the latest NOW That’s What I Call Music 80 compilation that pops up a 3D menu that music fans can access using a mobile app simply by pointing their mobile at any NOW 80 logo – whether its on a CD cover, a poster, in-store, an ad, a computer screen or even a printout

Ich besuche gerade in Wien die HP Discover. Die neue Chefin des IT-Herstellers, Meg Whitman, hat endlich klargestellt, wo es mit HP hingehen soll. Außerdem wurden einige Neuheiten vorgestellt.
Whitman will wieder den Kunden ins Zentrum …

Online retailers will have to grab the attention of Christmas shoppers where they can this year, as many expect to spend as little as six hours buying presents for their nearest and dearest, new research from eBay suggests.

Cutting prices has helped boost sales at value home shopping multichannel retailer Express Gifts. Its owner Findel reported its first-half results today and said this was an early result for its three-year turnaround programme.

Wiggle has launched its website in Russian and Chinese, targeting markets that it says represent “a huge opportunity” for it.
The move takes its total number of sites to 10: the bike and trisports retailer …

Collect Plus now delivers four million parcels a year, the delivery service said today. Following fast take up of its returns service, it now plans to focus on Click and CollectPlus in the coming year.

Money-saving website DiscountVouchers.co.uk has moved into the daily deals market through a partnership with NimbleCommerce. The two say the service is different because retailers are guaranteed payment, even if a customer does not appear to claim the deal.

The IVIS Group has opened its doors in China, with the aim of helping UK retailers to break into the market.

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