All Personalisation & analytics articles – Page 10
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Shop Direct reports a Very merry Christmas with sales up 4%
Shop Direct has reported a 4% rise in total group sales over Christmas, as the home-shopping group said Black Friday was its busiest trading day on record.
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NRF: What chief information officers are prioritising for 2015
An NRF panel of IT bosses discussed the challenges they will face this year, from tightening security to dealing with data.
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Waitrose to roll out real-time feedback system for store shoppers
Waitrose has entered into a partnership to deliver a new real-time customer feedback system across its convenience stores.
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Analysis
Analysis: How Shop Direct came back from its golden quarter IT meltdown
Shop Direct has turned its website around from going down during peak trading times two years ago to achieving 100% availability last year.
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Opinion
How can I move away from siloed working?
With Forrester Research reporting that the web will influence $1.8trn (£1.15trn) of retail sales by 2017, there is increasing pressure on retailers and brands to ensure their departments and systems are fully integrated to meet changing consumer demand and buying behaviour.
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Opinion
Comment: Retailers should not let big data cloud the big picture
Big data is an essential tool for retailers but it shouldn’t get in the way of good old-fashioned intuition and judgement.
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Analysis
Analysis: Inside Shop Direct’s user experience lab and experimental culture
Shop Direct’s user experience lab has revolutionised how the retailer manages its sites – how has the ecommerce team done it?
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Opinion
Comment: What is Shop Direct’s secret to ecommerce success?
Following Shop Direct’s latest pre-tax profits increase, how has the etailer gone from a catalogue company to digital department store?
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Santander becomes latest bank to join Cardlytics’ personalisation service
Santander has joined the list of banks using Cardlytics software, which analyses customers’ past purchases to create personalised offers.
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Analysis
Analysis: Can IBM’s Watson supercomputer improve retail?
IBM’s Watson supercomputer has won a game show and helped diagnose and treat cancer patients. Now it’s being put to work in retail.
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Analysis
Analysis: Shop Direct and M&S on the changing face of customer experience
Retail Week’s inaugural Customer Experience Summit highlighted how businesses are transforming in response to shopper expectations.
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Analysis
Analysis: Retail's Uncanny Valley - when is personalisation too personal?
Personalisation has become one of retail’s favourite buzzwords, but how far can it go before it’s just creepy? Retail Week investigates.
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Analysis
Analysis: Mobile as a customer feedback channel
Leveraging customer mobile devices to open a channel for personal customer feedback is essential for any business, especially those operating at scale.
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Analysis: Real-time in-store customer engagement
Repositioning point of sale (POS) systems as the hub of multichannel customer engagement.
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Gallery
Store gallery: Tesco Express stores cater for local shopping needs
One Tesco division that has done well recently is its Express c-store chain, which caters in different ways for local shopping needs.
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Analysis
Analysis: Using mobile devices to personalise loyalty
A creative and innovative approach to loyalty schemes can build long-term and profitable relationships between retailers and customers.
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Analysis
Emerging retailer: $1bn personalised women’s apparel etailer JustFab
It seems a little incongruous to call JustFab an emerging retailer. The US ecommerce site expects to turnover $500 million in 2015, is eyeing an IPO, is valued at $1bn and already operates in seven countries.
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Graze.com reports rising sales after targeting family market
Snacks etailer Graze.com has reported sales up 31% to £52.7m after successfully targeting the family market.
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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: 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.