All Technology articles – Page 276
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OpinionComment: Walmart is quietly becoming quite the mobile hipster
Despite a staggering $444 billion in annual revenue, Walmart has generally been sluggish and conservative, allowing tech innovations to be toyed with by rivals such as Amazon.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How can shopping centres embrace technology?
Shopping centres and technology at first seemed like adversaries, then uneasy bedfellows, but now they are positively united – or at least they should be.
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OpinionComment: Property’s change of pace
In terms of retail property, 2012 has been a year of extremes.
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GalleryStore gallery: Marks & Spencer’s Cheshire Oaks new concept store
Marks & Spencer said today that its new concept store at Cheshire Oaks has delivered a sales performance that is 30% ahead of plan. John Ryan took a trip to the store shortly after it opened in August.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Kindle Fire vs the iPad
Two updated versions of Amazon’s Kindle Fire are set to launch in the UK in a bid to rival Apple’s iPad. Is the Kindle Fire a serious threat to the iPad’s dominance?
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Opinion
Blog: SaaS and ERP - indestructible force meets immovable object
It has always been one of the unsolved mysteries of the universe, something that our minds can’t grasp, the intellectual challenge that relates to the question: “What would happen if the indestructible force met the immovable object?”
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OpinionRetail Surgery: How can we get our CEOs interested in digital?
How can we get our chief executive and board to engage with digital?
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OpinionRetail Surgery: Does SEO for mobile sites differ from desktop sites?
Does SEO for mobile sites differ from that of desktop sites?
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News
Peapod launches click-and-collect service
Online grocer Peapod has launched a click-and-collect service in partnership with Ahold’s Stop & Shop chain.Shoppers can order groceries online through Peapod and then go to stores for collection. They must live within 10 miles of the store to use the service and payment is made online. Customers can shop ...
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OpinionBlog: HMV uses FourSquare to promote Hunger Games release
Entertainment retailer HMV used location-based social media platform FourSquare at events over the weekend to mark today’s DVD release of The Hunger Games.
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OpinionBlog: Ann Summers performs a BlippTease
Ann Summers is the latest retailer to use augmented reality app Blippar to help bring its catalogues and in-store marketing to life with its new BlippTease campaign.
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OpinionComment: Why in-store wi-fi matters and QR codes do not
Trust, transparency and trade are all benefits of the true deployment of wi-fi as part of a store blueprint, so why have so few retailers rolled this out?
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AnalysisAnalysis: Why are mobile conversion rates so low?
Mobile conversion rates can be much lower than websites, so why aren’t shoppers buying on their phones?
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NewsMobile transactions set to boom in run-up to Christmas
One in five online purchases could be through a mobile devices by Christmas, new research has forecast.
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OpinionComment: Why in-store wi-fi is worth the investment
Sainsbury’s decision to remove free wi-fi from its trial stores has come as a surprise as the wi-fi bandwagon rolls forward.
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OpinionComment: M&S multichannel store is last hurrah of space race
Renewed speculation of a takeover bid for Marks & Spencer has been inevitable since it reported its worst trading performance in three years last month.
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NewsSainsbury's ditches wi-fi trial in store
Sainsbury’s has scrapped a trial of wi-fi in store which it introduced earlier this year.
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OpinionBlog: Sainsbury's redesigns marketing emails for mobile
Many retailers understand that email marketing is a valuable way to stay in touch with their customers, drive traffic to their sites and increase sales. Most also know that mobile is the future for ecommerce and are developing mobile sites.
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Opinion
Blog: Why IT should report to marketing
A retailer’s marketing department arranges promotional shoots, designs window displays and produces creative brand-focussed literature. So aren’t they a team of creative, flowery types who really don’t understand computers, applications and service levels?
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OpinionComment: Retailers lead the charge in online domain applications
On 13 June, the movers and shakers of the technology world came to a standstill as ICANN announced the much-anticipated list of the new ‘generic Top Level Domains’, or gTLDs.