More online retail – Page 138
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AnalysisAnalysis: Will the UK ever be a cashless society?
As new payment methods take off, a retail landscape without coins and notes could be on the horizon.
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OpinionNick Bubb’s Verdict: Shopping Centres - Can they adapt to an online shopping world?
Shopping centres have a tough job to compete with online retailing these days, but the big landlords seem surprisingly confident.
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OpinionBlog: Sports Direct's new magazine is boosted by mobile
Sports Direct’s new magazine might seem a strange choice for a media launch in 2013, considering that retailers are generally busy battling it out over who can be the most digitally innovative.
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OpinionComment: What Bezos's Washington Post deal says about retail and HMV
Amazon is as much a media business as it is a retailer, so are there retail lessons to be learned from the etailer’s founder Jeff Bezos’s acquisition of US newspaper the Washington Post?
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AnalysisMobile site review: Mothercare Vs Babies R Us
Vicky Wilkinson, senior planner at Savvy Marketing, shares her view of good and bad sites.
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AnalysisInternational analysis: Kmart’s Pay in Store offer breaks barriers to online
Sears’ Kmart is the latest retailer to enable online shoppers to pay in cash. Its Pay in Store scheme allows customers to reserve goods at Kmart.com and pay for them in store on collection within 24 hours.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Habitat makes itself at home in a new retail landscape
Habitat almost disappeared a few years ago, but in an exclusive interview managing director Clare Askem says its strategy under new owner Home Retail Group is working.
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Analysis
Infographic: How speed is increasingly vital in retail
New research from Worldpay has shown that speed is the most important consideration for time poor consumers. Retail Week takes a look at how speed is affecting shopper perceptions.
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OpinionBlog: Nordstrum stops tracking shoppers' mobiles in-store
US department store chain Nordstrum has stopped collecting data from shoppers’ mobile phones in store, partly because of complaints it received from shoppers.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Smart TV, dual screening and ads - how TV's role in retail is changing
TV has come a long way since its black and white beginnings. Suzanne Bearne takes a look at the latest developments and the impact interactive TV could have on retail.
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OpinionBlog: Why Ikea's use of augmented reality is clever
Ikea has been quietly getting on with its own take on multichannel innovation, and its latest offering - a 2014 catalogue with augmented reality - is unique.
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AnalysisWebsite review: The White Company Vs Laura Ashley
Dave Gurney, managing director at Alchemetrics, shares his view of good and bad sites.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can I use mobile technology to encourage people to buy in store?
How can I use mobile technology to encourage people to buy in store?
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OpinionComment: Mountain Warehouse founder on being a retail entrepreneur
I’m a former consultant, so of course I had a business plan 15 years ago. But plans can change - not least because sometimes they don’t work.
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Blog: Becoming more agile - retailers’ thoughts on platform and design
With a plethora of legacy systems and multiple channels to manage it can seem almost impossible to bring everything together to meet customer demands without getting tangled up behind the scenes.
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OpinionComment: Lessons to learn from the cyber-attack on Lakeland
The Lakeland breach is the latest high profile account data compromise event to make the headlines.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Why retailers haven't yet cracked big data
Has managing the retailer-customer relationship become harder with the growth of data, or easier as technology advances?
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AnalysisOnline retail searches: What do retailers need to know
The BRC Google Online Retail Monitor today revealed that the total number of retail searches on Google jumped 15% in the second quarter of 2013. Retail Week takes a closer look.
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OpinionBlog: Westfield's new personalised app
Shopping centre operator Westfield has launched its My Westfield app, which enables retailers to offer personalised offers to shoppers.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Is image recognition less useful than QR codes?
QR codes are ugly. They’re intrusive. Most designers hate them because there’s no way to make them look any less like the brick-full-of-blocks they are, especially when they’ve been slapped next to a great-looking retail marketing image.