All Multichannel articles – Page 212
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AnalysisDriving loyalty and footfall through mobile commerce
Mobile retail is empowering consumers, but it can be a positive tool for retailers.
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NewsPark Group returns to profit as half year sales soar 49%
Voucher and Christmas savings specialists Park Group returned to profit and experienced a 49% jump in half-year sales as its corporate and Christmas savings businesses soared.
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NewsMasterCard admits cyber-attack service disruption, Visa also targeted
MasterCard has acknowledged interruption of its payment services after it was hacked yesterday, while Visa became the latest payment service to be attacked by cyber-raiders overnight.
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Opinion
Merry cross-channel Christmas
Many UK retailers are into what will be their first peak trading period delivering true cross-channel services. And by the end of January we should have a better idea of what difference these investments in customer choice have made to their trading.
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NewsCo-op trials city-centre home shopping service
The Co-operative Group is to trial a home delivery service to shoppers living and working in Manchester city centre.
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NewsHalfords mobile site goes transactional
Halfords has enhanced its mobile site by making it transactional to give customers a better multichannel experience.
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NewsWeb sales peak at £831,000 per minute on Mega Monday
A record £831,000 per minute was spent online at peak yesterday on the busiest online shopping day of the year, according to Retail Decisions.
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NewsGoogle online bookstore opens in Europe next year
Google will open its online bookstore in Europe next year following its US launch yesterday.
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NewsEBay takes record sales on Super Sunday
Over five million shoppers logged onto eBay.co.uk yesterday in what was a record-breaking week for the online marketplace.
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NewsMobile to be 30% of sales in 3 years, says Asos boss
Etailers are gearing up for a surge in mobile commerce with Asos chief executive Nick Robertson predicting 20% to 30% of all transactions will be made from smartphones within the next three years.
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News7 For All Mankind gears up to expand
Premium denim brand 7 For All Mankind is gearing up for UK expansion with the launch of a transactional website and plans for seven further stores.
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NewsFindel to raise £80m for investment and to cut debt
Multichannel specialist Findel wants to raise £80m of equity through a rights issue to pay down debt and invest in key areas.
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AnalysisGet online returns right
Retailers need to be at the top of their game when handling returns to offer piece of mind to online shoppers. Charlotte Hardie reports
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NewsFirebox launches Christmas gift giveaway
Online retailer Firebox has launched a Christmas promotion called ‘20 prizes on a little donkey’, giving customers the opportunity to win a prize each day until December 20.
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Online sales set to surge today as Mega Monday begins
Today is predicted to be one of the busiest internet shopping days according to retail experts as the Christmas shopping season begins in earnest.
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NewsBlack Friday sales edge higher in US
Black Friday, the post-Thanksgiving US sales day, has seen a slight rise in sales compared to last year according to early reports.
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OpinionA white-knuckle ride into Christmas
It’s ironic that while Christmas decorations come into stores earlier every year, customers are leaving their spending even later.
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NewsLeading retailers reveal multichannel strategies
Retail Week has launched Multichannel Now, the most in-depth research report yet on the true impact multichannel is having on UK retailing, and where the industry’s leaders think it will go on the years ahead.
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AnalysisMultichannel Now
Based on exhaustive interviews with many of the biggest names in UK retailing, Retail Week’s groundbreaking report Multichannel Now is the definitive guide to multichannel in the UK. Here, in an extract from the introduction to the report, its author Joanna Perry sums up the challenges the multichannel world is ...