All Innovation & disruption articles – Page 35
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Data
Data: The UK's top 30 growth retailers 2018
A connected customer experience is key to grow your business, finds exclusive research published in Retail Week’s annual top 30 growth retailers ranking.
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Analysis
Analysis: What is retail's next big tech shift?
We ask speakers from Retail Week and World Retail Congress’s Tech. event to pick the technology that will have the biggest impact on retail over the next three years
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Opinion
John Roberts: Complacency has killed high street jobs
The death of the high street is a much-used term, but some bricks-and-mortar retailers are starting to pay the price for not inventing their own future.
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Analysis
The new global tech hubs you need to know
From Lisbon to Singapore, thriving start-up scenes are emerging with booming levels of entrepreneurship and super-slick B2B technology.
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Opinion
Opinion: How to survive the crisis on the high street
Three years ago, I gave a talk called ‘Is There Life After The High Street?’ about what I thought the future of retail would look like and why I withdrew my company Argenteus from physical retail in favour of online.
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Analysis
Analysis: Can Big Tech partnerships reboot retail?
Where once a retail deal might have meant a merger or acquisition, the focus now is increasingly on partnerships – especially with technology companies.
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Opinion
Opinion: Talking a good game is not the same as innovation
Retailers are some of the most efficient and effective organisations in existence today.
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Analysis
Analysis: How to get the most out of start-up schemes
As new technology continues to transform retail – and everyday life – retailers are becoming increasingly adept at tapping into the opportunities it brings.
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News
M&S and Microsoft strike 'game changer' tech deal
Marks & Spencer is teaming up with Microsoft on a strategic initiative designed to transform the retail experience through AI, Retail Week can reveal.
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News
Iceland launches tech start-up accelerator programme
Iceland has become the latest retailer to establish a start-up tech accelerator programme as it seeks to take advantage of the opportunities heralded by digital innovation.
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Opinion
Opinion: Carrefour-Google deal shows way to retail future
French grocer Carrefour revealed earlier this week that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Google – a first in European food retail.
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Analysis
The disruptors: The shake-up in retail delivery
Delivery has long been a key battleground for retailers. In Retail Week’s latest instalment of ‘The Disruptors’ series, we profile the companies shaking up delivery.
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Retail Voice
Five ways high street retailers can appeal to Gen Z
For Generation Z, self-service checkouts and contactless payments are among the most desirable features when it comes to in-store tech, according to YouGov research.
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Opinion
Opinion: Digital shift creates high street opportunity
The retail landscape has evolved hugely over the past few years, but it’s not all doom and gloom for the high street.
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News
Ikea pledges to remove all single-use plastic by 2020
Ikea has revealed plans to ditch all single-use plastic products in the next two years as concerns grow over the impact of plastic pollution on the environment.
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Retail Voice
Retail destinations need to live up to experiential expectations
In today’s multichannel world, retail destinations need to live up to the demands of modern tech-savvy consumers.
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Opinion
Opinion: In Barcelona, shoppers are voting with their feet
“The people have spoken”, the clarion call of the Daily Mail, among other organs, is the mantra of people who voted for Brexit, airbrushing out the inconvenient detail of the millions of people who voted the other way.
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Opinion
Opinion: Asda needs Sainsbury’s shoulder to lean on
The old analogy of two drunk men propping each other up at a bar has been used in the past to describe retail mergers.