All Multichannel articles – Page 43
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News
Waitrose launches full roll-out of 'scan as you shop' mobile app
Waitrose has rolled out its Quick Check ‘scan as you shop’ mobile app to all of its stores following a successful trial earlier this year.
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Video
Watch: Boots launches app for store staff to drive bricks-and-mortar sales
Boots joins forces with Apple and IBM to create an app for store staff that uses analytics to monitor in-store availability and customer reviews.
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Retail Voice
Opinion: Five ways retailers can take the headache out of returns
eCommera reflects on the top five ways retailers can manage returns cost-effectively and how ever-improving technology can help.
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Video
Watch: Ikea is testing smaller-format stores to increase accessibility
Ikea is testing a number of smaller “order and collect” units. We visit its Aberdeen store to see how it has scaled down its offer.
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News
Data: Amazon Fresh at least 17% cheaper than big four rivals, study reveals
Amazon’s Fresh grocery proposition is at least 17% cheaper than each of its mainstream supermarket rivals, according to a new study.
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Report Store
When Digital and Physical Collide
How fresh thinking is future-proofing the stores of tomorrow
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News
Reiss turnaround plan bears fruit as full-year profits and sales soar
Reiss has posted a jump in full-year profits and sales as the luxury fashion retailer’s three-year turnaround plan bears fruit.
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Opinion
Opinion: Five things every retailer should be thinking about right now
Speaking to a retailer last week about the future of the industry, we both agreed that looking back at history wasn’t helpful any more for informing new thinking.
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Opinion
Opinion: Never mind the omnijargon – today it’s just retail
Bricks-and-mortar retail is not dying. Online retail isn’t stealing real world sales. Ultimately, retail only exists as one entity.
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Analysis
Start-up of the week: Try-before-you-buy fashion platform Try.com
The number of start-ups in retail technology is growing quickly and Retail Week is highlighting some of the best. This week Try.com is in the spotlight.
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Opinion
Opinion: Experience wins over convenience in the bid for customers
The city centre, it seems, may be the clear winner when it comes to the challenge of delivering a world-class customer experience.
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Opinion
Opinion: The retail benefits and pitfalls of smart device payments
Smartphones provide shoppers with a convenient and secure way to buy in-store, but will they be adopted as a mainstream payment method?
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Analysis
Power List: Risk-takers and innovators in retail reap rewards
Conditions remain hard in retail, but the risk-takers are coming out on top as this year’s Retail Week Power List makes clear.
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News
Find out how retailers can minimise risk of cyber-attacks at Legal Club dinner
Hear from the Government’s top tech advisor on how to protect your business from modern-day attacks at an exclusive dinner on June 28.
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News
Holland & Barrett profits soar as UK drives like-for-like growth
Holland & Barrett’s full-year sales and profits rose in what finance boss Christian Keen deemed a “strong financial performance”.
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Opinion
Opinion: Sainsbury’s Rogers is a good choice to run Home Retail
The dismal demise of BHS and resulting fall-out is a reminder that, today more than ever, retail cannot afford to stand still.
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News
Opinion: Today’s successful retail landlords need to be placemakers
Successful shopping centre operators need to be as passionate about their business as retailers are about theirs.
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News
Bonmarché falls victim to tough trading conditions as profits slide
Womenswear retailer Bonmarché has posted a fall in full-year earnings after suffering amid tough trading conditions.
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News
Sainsbury’s finance chief John Rogers to become boss of Home Retail
Sainsbury’s finance supremo John Rogers is to become chief executive of Home Retail after the grocer’s takeover of the Argos owner.
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Video
The Retail Week with Bryan Roberts: BHS inquiry and launch of Amazon Fresh
Analyst Bryan Roberts joins the team to discuss key moments as Chappell and Topp face MPs and Amazon enters the grocery market.