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As services, shops and venues closed and people turned online, online shopping accelerated at an alarming rate. Retailers had to react quickly not only to the move to solely online purchasing and increased demands for a positive digital experience, but also new trends washing over the sphere of fashion, retail and homeware.
12.08.2021
In the last 12 months, customers have become more conscious of the ethical consequences of their consumer habits. Popular item rental marketplace, Fat Llama has launched new enterprise rental software to allow the high street to meet new consumer demands.
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Abby Wallace
12.07.2021
As the UK remains in lockdown, consumers are continuing to shift online at an ever-increasing rate, with ecommerce sales up 74% last month compared to January 2020. Many traditionally offline industries and companies are now embracing an increasingly online future.
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Maddyness UK
26.02.2021
Google-backed, NearSt, a British retail technology business driving more people onto the high street has raised £2M in seed funding from one of the world’s largest privately-owned international property companies to fuel footfall into bricks and mortar stores at a critical time for physical retailers.
05.01.2021
In 1991, when the WWW went live to the world, eCommerce was born too. It was almost immediate. In the mid-nineties, people started ordering a wide range of products with their dial-up connections. Amazon began its journey in the same period.
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Evelyn Johnson
27.11.2020
Moteefe, the e-Commerce platform providing infrastructure, customisation and global fulfilment for retailers of all sizes, has received $11M (£8.3M) from new investor BGF, who led the round with existing investors Gresham House Ventures and Force Over Mass Capital.
07.09.2020
A lot has been written on Augmented Reality (AR). Usually, the word is thrown in with Virtual Reality (VR) as two technologies that will reshape the world going forward. While it’s true that AR has a use that goes beyond TikTok filters —there’s a lot of misinformation on the potential applications of this technology.
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Evelyn Johnson
11.08.2020
Giles Corbett and his brother Julian co-founded Ksubaka initially as a new way for brands to advertise to shoppers in stores at mass scale. But working with retailers, they came to understand the need to improve the in-store experience and so shifted their focus to help physical retailers revitalise by providing in-store digital interface products and services.
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Giles Corbett
05.08.2020
A worldwide pandemic is certain to change many things that were seemingly standard. According to Winning Omnichannel and their recent research into how the retail environment has reacted to COVID-19, the world’s shopping habits have shifted dramatically within a period of three months.
31.07.2020
The bricks and mortar retail industry has, like many traditional industries, felt the hand of father time on its shoulder of late. The internet and new consumer devices have changed the way that we shop, so retailers have to change the way they engage, sell and support their customers. Tony Hughes looks at how some are adapting better than others.
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Tony Hughes
21.07.2020
Validify have compiled a comprehensive report that guides businesses and retailers on how to boost online performance and customer experience in double-quick time with the latest innovative solutions.
07.05.2020
Led by Magnus Rausing, heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, Blueprint, which lets brands sell to their customers through SMS, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp messages has raised £1M seed investment. The investment was supported by Hambro Perks and Founders Factory, with the private beta version of the platform expected next month.
20.04.2020
Founded by CEO Geoff Watts and Julia Fowler in 2009, Edited is used to analyse markets, drive sales, maximise margins and trade more efficiently. Advised by GP Bullhound, retail decision-making software received a £23.1M growth investment from Wavecrest Growth and Beringea.
16.04.2020
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