All Online retail & ecommerce articles – Page 513
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Asda eyes Irish web move to cash in on pound's slump
Grocery giant Asda is investigating opportunities for its online business to take advantage of the boom in cross-border shopping in Northern Ireland.
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AnalysisCustomer Service: Attention to e-tail
Retailers’ websites are increasingly offering consumers advice before they buy. But how good are retailers at replicating in-store product advice online? Joanna Perry finds out
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Findel brands under review as home shopping slide continues
Home shopping group Findel has put two of its brands under review as sales at its home shopping division continued to slide, falling 6 per cent in the 44 weeks to February 6.
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Richer Sounds buys Empire Direct's online business
Electricals retailer Richer Sounds has bought the website of failed counterpart Empire Direct.
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Video: Martha Lane Fox at the Retail Week E-Commerce Summit
Retailers gathered at the Retail Week E-commerce Summit in London on Tuesday to hear Martha Lane Fox discussing the e-commerce lessons she has learnt since the early days of Lastminute.com back in the late 1990s.
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OpinionVideo and mobile will be must-haves for online retail
At yesterday’s Retail Week E-commerce Summit, Martha Lane Fox spoke enthusiastically about the role technology can play in a retail business.
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Flying Brands chief executive steps down
Flying Brands has lost its chief executive Tricia Killen, less than a year after she joined the home shopping group.
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NewsThe Hut sticks with bespoke software in expansion drive
Entertainment e-tailer and white label e-commerce provider The Hut Group will stick with its strategy of developing bespoke software as it continues to increase the list of retailers it works with.
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Online sales soar 19 per cent in January
Shoppers continued to shop online in January, when spending rose 19 per cent year on year.
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Findel assesses future of underperforming brands
Home shopping group Findel has reported group sales down 3 per cent for the 44 weeks to February 6 compared to the same period last year.
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Waitrose to build online social hub
Waitrose has this week launched social networking site Mywaitrose.com to drive interactivity with its customers.
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Asos to up interaction with web community
Asos is planning to launch an online community channel on its website as it seeks to drive customer interaction with the fashion brand.
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Asos: Stock in focus
The fashion e-tailer, now capitalised higher than many main market-listed retailers, was a Christmas winner and is expected to continue blazing a trail.
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Online fraud: Enemies at the gates
Online fraud is still on the rise and the increasing complexity of multichannel businesses is only making it more difficult to identify and crack down on. Joanna Perry investigates
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Vente-privee sales soar 46%
French fashion e-tailer Vente-privee has revealed that sales jumped 46 per cent to 545m last year.
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Tesco Direct to introduce customer reviews
Tesco Direct has signed a deal enabling shoppers to review its products online.
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Retail like-for-likes up 1.1% in January
Like-for-like retail sales figures rose 1.1 per cent in January, the biggest increase since May, although the outlook remains 'challenging'.
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AnalysisMultichannel debate: On the pulse
Retailers’ multichannel strategies may have come a long way but there are still plenty of challenges. Joanna Perry joins some of the UK’s top e-tail directors to find out what their new priorities are
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Traditional home shopping retailers fail to engage customers
Catalogue operators are failing to fully engage with customers, as the home shopping sector continues to change gear to an increasingly online-dominated market.
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Woolworths online rebirth to tap entertainment
Woolworths is to be reborn as a serious player in the online entertainment market under the ownership of Shop Direct.