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Asda today said it would invest more than £700m to accelerate the pace of development in its multichannel business. Innovations will include same-day delivery for online grocery orders, billed as a ‘world-first’ and set …
British online businesses are growing more than 50 times faster than the economy as a whole, a new study has found. The Barclays report came as separate spending data from Barclaycard showed online sales climbed …
Carpetright today said “self-help initiatives” including investment in digital media had helped the carpet-to-beds retailer to grow its UK sales in the first quarter of the year.
In a trading statement today the company said UK …
The week has started well for the multichannel industry, and today we have some eyecatching developments to report in today’s Internet Retailing newsletter. The champagne corks will be popping at John Lewis as it reports …
In a move that raises interesting questions about what it means to be a online retailer, ecommerce giant Amazon has moved beyond content sale to content production.
Amazon Studios has launched its first TV show pilots …
Claire’s has looked ahead to the way its customers will shop in the future to design its first European website, aimed at the UK market.
Claires.co.uk integrates with social media and has a dynamic mobile site, …
What is billed as the world’s first virtual rail is the centrepiece of a Marks & Spencer e-boutique that opened its doors in Amsterdam this week.
The e-boutique is part of a 500 sq m multichannel …
by Sean Blanks
Postage and packaging is not sexy and no one wants to spend time discussing it. Trouble is, it’s vitally important to the success of any retail and distribution start up and it should …
Consumers bought online rather than venturing to the shops during March’s cold weather, official figures suggested today.
The ONS’ Retail Sales figures for March found that 10.4% of all retail sales took place over the internet. …
Debenhams today reported strong multichannel growth, with online sales up by 46% to £194.4m in the first half of its year. Some 12.7% of all the department store group’s sales now take place over …
Fits.me has won £5m in funding which it plans to use to underpin expansion into Europe and the US, while also scaling up existing operations.
The virtual fitting room provider, whose clients include Adidas, Hugo Boss, …
One of the main messages to come out of Internet Retailing Expo last month was that retailers need to start thinking across all channels about how to deliver experiences to consumers in an attempt to …
Mobile payments is currently a three way battle for consumers being fought out between retailers, banks and mobile network operators – each keen to ‘own the customer’ – but it will be retailers and banks …
76% of major UK retailers do not offer free in-store wi-fi, according to new research from mobile marketing agency Sponge, and so are losing out on collecting rich data about their consumers that they can …
Debenhams , Expedia and Argos have topped the UK Mobile Commerce study by EPiServer, published this week. The report scored the mobile websites and apps of 30 of the UK’s top retailers against a detailed …
Technology appears to be playing a role in reversing the stereotype of the male dislike of shopping. As the number of people owning a smartphone continues to rise, research from Kantar Media’s Global TGI …
In June 2011 at the annual WWDC in California a chance meeting between Danish app developers ignited a passionate app project that aimed to put the joy of cocktails into the pockets of cocktail fans. …
Less than six months after it launched the UK’s first 4G mobile service, EE announced today that it intends to double the speed and capacity of its 4G network from this summer. At present, …
The continued adoption of smart mobile devices has made it essential that marketers integrate mobile focused messages into the customer lifecycle. But how do you make that happen, especially across multiple devices? Here, Jim …
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