All Online retail & ecommerce articles – Page 211
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Video
Retail Week Live: Alex Baldock discusses the dangers of ecommerce
Chief executive of Shop Direct Alex Baldock joins the Retail Week Live team to discuss the importance of personalisation in ecommerce.
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Analysis
Watch: Ao.com boss John Roberts on living wage and bricks and mortar
Boss of Ao.com John Roberts joins the Retail Week Live Studio to discuss the future of the online retailer and the state of the industry.
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News
MFI brand to be relaunched through owner VictoriaPlum.com's website
The MFI furniture brand has been relaunched online by owner VictoriaPlum.com as the bathroom specialist expands into new household categories.
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News
Retail Week Live: Amazon uses Twitter to target its Prime shoppers
Twitter’s European vice-president said retailers including Amazon and Marks & Spencer used the social platform to advertise to shoppers.
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News
Retail Week Live: Facebook boss says social messaging is future of retail
Facebook EMEA vice-president Nicola Mendelsohn says mobile is “the most important consumer trend of our lifetime” for retail marketers.
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Analysis
Retail Week Live: Debenhams director John Scott on overseas expansion
Agreeing terms with local partners is one of many challenges when expanding abroad, according to Debenhams international director John Scott.
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News
Retail Week Live: Etsy provides a platform for female entrepreneurs
Etsy’s international vice-president Nicole Vanderbilt said its platform provides a “low-risk way” for retail entrepreneurs to expand.
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Interview
Interview: Alibaba UK boss on globalisation and being an online landlord
Alibaba wants to be UK retail’s gateway to China. Ahead of her talk at Retail Week Live on Thursday, we spoke to UK managing director Amee Chande.
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News
Ocado sales and weekly average orders increase: what the analysts say
Ocado first-quarter retail sales rose but concerns grow around its partnership with Morrisons. This is what the analysts said.
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News
Ocado finance chief insists Morrisons' tie-up with Amazon is 'good news'
Ocado finance boss Duncan Tatton-Brown has insisted that the etailer can benefit from Morrisons’ supply tie-up with online rival Amazon.
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Analysis
Delivery survey: Take part for a chance to win a ticket to the Customer Experience Summit
Take part in this three minute survey about delivery to be entered into a prize draw to win a ticket to the Retail Week Customer Experience Summit in June.
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News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on BHS and Dick Smith
Retail news round-up on March 15, 2016: Hermes investment firm against BHS' rent cut demands and Collapsed Australian retailer Dick Smith to return as an online-only store.
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Opinion
Blog: Fulfilment costs could shrink retail margins to just 1%
Retail margins could shrink to 1% by 2025 unless retailers address the economics of online fulfilment, new research has revealed.
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Retail Voice
Opinion: Cloud computing can be a tool for fast digital change
Find out how the cloud is giving retailers a digital lift in a quickly shifting technology landscape in the new Retail Week and Cisco guide.
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News
Missguided website crashes as half-price Sale sees demand soar
Missguided’s website has crashed as an increase in traffic from a half-price Sale left customers unable to complete orders.
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Retail Voice
Opinion: How to prepare for a new era of retail in 2020
Fast-forward four years from now and there will be a very different set of shoppers who have adopted a very different way of shopping.
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Retail Voice
Opinion: The golden opportunity available in retail returns
How retailers treat shoppers when they need to return a product is a crucial factor in the overall customer experience.
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Analysis
Analysis: Why online retailers have turned content producers
As consumers spend more of their time online, etailers are creating their own content to attract the increasingly digital-savvy shopper.
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News
Agenda: Sainsbury's, Ocado, Ted Baker results and Argos deadlines
Retail Week looks ahead to next week with full-year figures from French Connection, Ted Baker and bid deadlines for Argos on the agenda.
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Opinion
Opinion: Retailers must invest in training to create valued jobs
As retail continues to change, so will jobs in the industry in order to adapt to new realities such as the national living wage.