The first Amazon Fresh store has opened today in Ealing in West London, offering the company’s checkout-less experience to shoppers in the UK for the first time.

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Lovehoney turns on new platform to cater to 80% mobile traffic and editorially-led sales push

03 Mar 2021by Paul Skeldon

Lovehoney, the sexual wellbeing brand and online retailer, is going mobile-first as it sees 80% of its traffic coming from smartphones in the Covid ecommerce boom and an increasing need for editorially led content to help make the sale.

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Homebase, Boohoo, The Fragrance Shop among the first customers for new buy-now-pay-later entrant to the UK market

02 Mar 2021by Chloe Rigby

It’s the first time that Homebase will use the fast-growing payment type. Its partnership with Zip operates both online and in its stores

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Five ways that customer expectations are changing: what the research says

18 Feb 2021by Chloe Rigby

Shoppers’ expectations are changing as retail shifts further online during the Covid-19 pandemic, research suggests. We round up the latest findings on how customers now want to buy – and what that means for retailers and brands

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COVID-19 boosts augmented reality adoption among UK shoppers

17 Feb 2021by Paul Skeldon

A quarter (25%) of UK consumers are open to trying on clothes using augmented or virtual reality to avoid physical fitting rooms during Covid-19

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Cox & Cox rides homeware boom with explosion of online and mobile sales...

17 Feb 2021by Paul Skeldon

A strong Q4, with sales 85.4% up on the previous year, has rounded off a strong year of growth for homewares retailer Cox & Cox, with online and mobile – along with AR – lifting the company.

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... and looks to transform online homewares with mobile AR Room Builder tool

17 Feb 2021by Paul Skeldon

Homeware retailer Cox & Cox is rolling out ‘Room Builder’ software that will allow customers to design rooms virtually – from furniture to paint colour – save it, share it and message it in as it adapts to the online homewares boom

Cox & Cox Growth 2000 Homeware Strategy and Innovation Technology

Half of UK exporters facing difficulties with post-Brexit rules for trade with European Union countries; a third of UK shoppers now avoid buying from Europe: surveys

11 Feb 2021by Chloe Rigby

Half of UK exporters say they are having difficulties adapting to the new rules for trade with European Union countries; a third of UK shoppers avoid buying from Europe since Brexit: surveys

Caffè Nero continues to diversify routes to market, launching on Amazon

10 Feb 2021by Paul Skeldon

Adapting to lockdown, coffee house chain Caffè Nero is set to start selling its Coffee at Home product range on Amazon.

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Ecommerce sales tax floated as government looks to prevent retail shifting further online

09 Feb 2021by Chloe Rigby

The government is once more considering an online sales tax as it looks to prevent retail shifting further online, reports suggest. But critics say the measure would not bring back the British high street – and the government should instead concentrate on increasing corporation tax

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First Amazon Fresh checkout-less grocery store opens in London

Lovehoney turns on new platform to cater to 80% mobile traffic and editorially-led sales push

Homebase, Boohoo, The Fragrance Shop among the first customers for new buy-now-pay-later entrant to the UK market

Five ways that customer expectations are changing: what the research says

COVID-19 boosts augmented reality adoption among UK shoppers

Cox & Cox rides homeware boom with explosion of online and mobile sales...

... and looks to transform online homewares with mobile AR Room Builder tool

Half of UK exporters facing difficulties with post-Brexit rules for trade with European Union countries; a third of UK shoppers now avoid buying from Europe: surveys

Caffè Nero continues to diversify routes to market, launching on Amazon

Ecommerce sales tax floated as government looks to prevent retail shifting further online

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