Although overall like for like sales are up only 1.4% in the quarter to 27 June, online sales at M&S Direct are up 28%.

The online grocer has placed an order with Juniper Networks that will see it bringing its website hosting in-house.

Keynote’s Performance Index for May has found that all but one of the retailers hit over 99% availability, but none achieved 100%

Argos’ multi-channel sales continue to grow in popularity, Home Retail Group has reported, accounting for 42% of sales in the last quarter, up from 26% in the year to end February

The online fashion retailer has reported sales up by 48% in the year to 31 January and profits up by more than 230%

28% of respondents to a new survey are using their credit card much less or not at all and 34% would use cash online if it were as easy as doing so over the counter

Traffic to Marks and Spencer’s website grew by 36% over the last year and it now has 5.3% of the UK online clothing market, the retailer revealed in its final results for the year to 28 March 2009

Except for market leaders like Amazon and eBay, “custom development is likely to be a waste of effort and money”, say analysts Gartner

Keynote, which provided weekly reports on the performance of a basket of top websites over the Christmas shopping period, has now put together the first in a series of regular monthly reports for Internet Retailing

Homebase and Argos are now working together to improve the group’s overall online performance, Home Retail Group has revealed in its annual report

Following a ground-breaking EU decision, mail order and delivery businesses that have contracts with Royal Mail are advised to make a protective VAT claim now

The retailer has reported an increase in profits for the six months to the end of February, including strong growth at Debenhams.com

The billionaire Amazon boss has been spending a week working in one of Amazon’s regional warehouses in the US

The domain name for the much publicised, soon to launch Whatsmybrand.com has been snapped up by a ‘domainer’ after the domain name registration was not renewed in time.

The delivery specialist, now renamed ‘Hermes’, is the UK arm of a pan-European home delivery (and returns) network being built by Germany’s Hermes Logistik Gruppe. JD Williams and Land’s End have become the first to sign up…

The supermarket chain’s site will be down over the weekend in a move that could cost it more than £1m

The Ministry of Sound, Oasis and others had their ecommerce sites go down last week following the collapse of their website supplier Trinity Street

The entertainment etailer’s managing director has been waxing lyrical on the subject of e-procurement

Despite the cancellation of The Retail Business Show, the Vendorcom cards and payments event will take place as planned at Olympia, London on 28 and 29 January

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