All Online retail & ecommerce articles – Page 282
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: Retailers should embrace creative content, says BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed’s European advertising boss has urged retailers to embrace social media and imaginative content to engage with customers.
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: Shop Direct's UX lab helps it focus on customers not competitors
Bringing user experience labs in-house has changed Shop Direct’s culture to focus on the customer rather than its competitors.
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: Learn from other industries to innovate, says Volvo CIO
Innovation should come from industries that are external to your own, as well as within a sector, says Klas Bendrik, the chief information officer at Volvo.
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Retail Week Hackathon: Day One
Retail Week kicked off its 24 hour hackathon yesterday, as 10 teams battle it out to create the ultimate customer experience. Here’s how the first day went.
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Card Factory's underlying profits grow as IPO costs lead to statutory loss
Card Factory grew its half-year underlying operating profits by 9.3% as it made a statutory loss of £7.9m in its first results since floating.
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Breakfast briefing: Retail news on MyWardrobe, Mr Porter and Phones 4u
Retail news round-up on September 18, 2014: MyWardrobe plots new fundraising drive, Mr Porter becomes exclusive Google Glass retail partner and Phones 4u creditors draw up rescue plan.
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: Monsoon Accessorize trials mobile point of sale
Monsoon Accessorize is trialing a tablet-based mobile point of sale system in 11 of its stores.
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: All Saints' conversion surges after cutting checkout time
All Saints is partnering with Amazon to test a payment system and has found speeding up its checkout process significantly boosts conversion rates.
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Notonthehighstreet.com launches first international site in Germany
Notonthehighstreet.com has launched in Germany as the first step in its international expansion plans after significant UK business growth.
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: PrivateFly boss says crypto currencies are here to stay
The chief executive of private jet charter company PrivateFly says payment methods such as Bitcoin will be increasingly important in retail.
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: ‘Mobile is key to our strategy,’ says Lyst
Fashion retailer Lyst’s head of product says that by 2017 consumers will primarily make online purchases via their mobiles.
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: Analyst David Reynolds on why 'mobile is king'
Getting the customer mobile offering right is more important than adopting the latest technology, according to Jefferies International analyst David Reynolds
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: Google retail boss on how wearables can change customers' lives
Wearable tech from Google Glass to contact lenses and even password pills will all make a splash in the next few years, according to industry retail head at Google John Gillan.
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In pictures: N Brown's Simply Be and Jacamo Oxford Street store
N Brown has opened a flagship dual branded store for its Simply Be and Jacamo fashion brands on shopping mecca Oxford Street.
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Retail Week Hackathon: The live blog
Follow all the action from the first Retail Week Hackathon.
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: “We want to keep the spirit of a start-up alive,” says Net-a-Porter
The Net-a-Porter CIO Hugh Fahy wants to ensure that his 300-strong team retains an agile approach to the delivery of the etailer’s technology.
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Tech & Ecomm Summit: Wearables and robots five years away, says Tesco’s McNamara
Wearable technology such as internet-connected clothing is only five years away from being used in-store at Tesco, chief information officer Mike McNamara said at Retail Week’s Tech & Ecomm Summit.
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JD Sports Fashion doubles profits in the first half
JD Sports Fashion doubled its profits in the six months to August 2 as the retailer’s sales jumped 27%.
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Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Phones 4u, click and collect and Labour's high street levy
Retail news round-up on September 17, 2014:Vodafone and EE in talks to buy elements of Phones 4U, Shoppers to pick up £6.5bn of goods using click and collect, Labour Party mulls new high street levy
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Video: Through the Google Glass - behind the scenes at Very's Fearne fashion show
Etailer Very unveiled Fearne Cotton’s spring 2015 collection at a circus-themed fashion show last Thursday. Retail Week uses Google Glass to film the goings-on behind the scenes.