All Technology articles – Page 82
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AnalysisData: Top 10 retailers ranked for best online UX
Retail Week’s inaugural Ecommerce 2021 report surveyed 1,000 UK shoppers to discover which retailers are winning in UX, where the new consumer is starting their online journey and what is driving them to purchase
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AnalysisAnalysis: How Ocado plans to make up for lost time
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, when demand for grocery home delivery jumped overnight, many would have predicted that no business in UK food retail was better placed to take advantage than Ocado.
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AnalysisSix ways to fast-track ecommerce strategy in 2021
Online sales have soared 46% year on year, with the pandemic changing consumer shopping behaviour as we know it. As RWRC’s Accelerating Ecommerce Week kicks off, we look at the steps retailers must take to expedite their digital propositions.
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AnalysisThe Big Question: Will tighter regulation spell the end for buy now, pay later?
With the Financial Conduct Authority’s crackdown on buy now, pay later companies beginning earlier this week, Retail Week asks experts if regulation will destroy this rapidly growing sector.
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VideoFace time: Dixons Carphone’s Ed Connolly on consumers’ new relationship with tech
With tech at the forefront of consumer’s lives to keep in touch and keep working during lockdown, Dixons Carphone chief commercial officer Ed Connolly talks to Retail Week about this behavioural shift
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AnalysisData: 78% of global shoppers will wait for promotions in 2021
More than three quarters of consumers say they will be likely to wait for promotional offers post-pandemic before they make a purchase, a Retail Week report reveals.
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AnalysisAmazon’s new boss Andy Jassy – the man filling the biggest shoes in retail
The international business community was shocked last night when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced he’d be stepping down as chief executive of the company he built. Retail Week looks at what Andy Jassy will bring to the role and the challenges he may face.
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NewsAlibaba sales surge amid China’s ‘rapid’ Covid-19 recovery
Alibaba has posted a spike in sales during the final quarter of 2020 following the “rapid recovery” of the Chinese economy in the wake of Covid-19.
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NewsAmazon boss Jeff Bezos steps down as quarterly sales pass $125bn
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will resign as chief executive later this year and step into the role of executive chair.
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OpinionJonathon Ringer: ‘Next wave of digital transformation will be inside retailers’
Even before the Covid-19 crisis, retail had been transformed by the impact of digital.
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AnalysisTalking shop: Five ways to galvanise staff when stores reopen
Store staff are worried about their jobs, are suffering from low morale and do not see retail as a good career choice, our groundbreaking report Talking Shop reveals. So, what can retailers do about it?
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Retail VoiceDispelling the ‘free and fast’ myth is the first step to a smarter strategy
It’s easy to get caught up in the hyperbole regarding the meteoric rise of ecommerce. But for thousands of independent online retailers, the last 12 months have been a rollercoaster, not a procession.
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Retail VoiceWhy Cyprus needs to be on your radar in 2021
With the new UK-EU trade agreement meaning no tariffs or quotas have been introduced following Brexit, Cyprus is a great sourcing destination for the year ahead boasting a fast-developing export trade and a reputation for high quality and competitive pricing.
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NewsAsos scoops up Topshop in £265m deal
Asos has acquired Topshop and other Arcadia brands in “a hugely exciting moment” for the online fashion specialist.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Is this the death of cash?
The contactless limit was upped to £100 in yesterday’s Budget. With the use of cash already plummeting, is this its final nail in the coffin? Retail Week reports on the implications of a cashless society.
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Retail VoiceHow to empower consumers with frictionless self-service journeys
Retailers today face many challenges. Consumption patterns have changed – and keep on changing – and Covid has only expedited this change process.
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NewsLidl boss: The costs of going online just don’t add up
Lidl GB boss Christian Härtnagel has ruled out wading into the burgeoning online grocery market as he believes the pandemic has artificially inflated demand and the costs are too high.
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AnalysisHow Dixons, Joules and Hotel Chocolat’s online prowess saved Christmas
Bricks-and-mortar retailers up and down the country had feared a Christmas washout as the UK veered in and out of lockdowns at the end of 2020.
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Opinion‘Retailers must rebuild after Covid crisis – start-ups can help’
Last year’s Retail Week Discovery 50 (which I was also lucky enough to judge) feels a bit like it was a lifetime ago.