All Online retail & ecommerce articles – Page 145
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Retail VoiceEliminate in-store queues – not revenues
Sebestyén Dóra, head of business development at Ultinous, on the three ways predictive queue management can help to boost business.
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DataData: 70% of consumers want more flexible delivery
Retailers are failing to deliver on high consumer expectations around fulfilment, new research has found.
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NewsBoohoo full-year profits surge as sales double
Boohoo has unveiled stellar full-year results driven by an “exceptional performance” at PrettyLittleThing.
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OpinionOpinion: Competing with Amazon – without its budget
Amazon’s ambition was on display recently with the disclosure that it spent close to $23bn (£16.5bn) on research and development in 2017.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How digital is central to JD’s growth plan
JD Sports has hit the acquisition trail hard recently, but key to the success of its spending spree will be digitally integrating its businesses into a global network.
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OpinionOpinion: Primark is the non-digital elephant in the room
Online or offline: it’s not a binary choice – both need to be in place for retailers.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How JD.com will open 1,000 stores a day
Chinese online retail giant JD.com is plotting the biggest store expansion in retail history. Retail Week looks into why and how.
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OpinionOpinion: Retailers should fear a more direct approach
With more consumer packaged goods companies now going direct to consumer, what does this mean for retailers?
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NewsAgenda: Boohoo, N Brown and Carpetright's CVA vote
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with updates from Booho and N Brown and Carpetright’s CVA vote on the agenda.
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Retail VoiceGetting personal: Why convenience is not enough
Future tech investment strategies need to look beyond the practical and towards a more personal approach, says Kendal Stacey, major account manager at Daisy.
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AnalysisAmazon's Jeff Bezos on the keys to a brilliant business
Amazon founder and boss Jeff Bezos’ annual letter to shareholders never fails to hit the headlines – and this year’s edition was no exception.
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NewsIceland launches online in China with JD.com
Iceland is to tap into the Chinese market after opening an online store in partnership with ecommerce giant JD.com.
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InterviewQ&A: JD.com boss Liu on robots, millennials and the UK
JD.com boss Richard Liu talks to Retail Week at the World Retail Congress about his UK ambitions, Cambridge vs. Silicon Valley and staying relevant.
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NewsRetail will be run entirely by robots, says JD.com boss
JD.com chief executive Richard Liu says that, in the future, retail will be operated not by humans but by “data, technology and robots”.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Why 44% of retailers are launching marketplaces
Some 12% of retailers have launched their own marketplace and a further 32% are planning to launch one, exclusive Retail Week research has found.
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Report StoreA Marketplace Mindset
Why retailers are operating their own marketplaces to increase choice and win customers
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NewsRiver Island to launch online third-party brand shop
River Island is set to launch an online shop for third-party menswear brands in a bid to capture a greater share of the market.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Why Asos' rising capex will pay dividends
Asos has revealed another set of strong results and chief executive Nick Beighton was on bullish form.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How to run your stores like a website
As online and offline retail merge, an increasing trend is the physical store that aims to behave like a website. John Ryan considers the implications.
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NewsAsos profits climb as web visits pass the billion mark
Fashion etailer Asos’ profits leaped in the first half of the year as visits to its website in that period exceeded a billion for the first time.