This week, we kick off the new year with a look at how Alibaba is adding merchants to its ecosystem by modernising China's convenience stores as well as arming local prisoners with e-commerce skillsets. The Chinese online retailer runs a programme [...]

The death of physical shops, and indeed the high street, has long been predicted ever since online shopping began to grow in earnest. And the figures around online spending certainly back that up: last year in the UK, we spent [...]

One of the fastest growing tech verticals out there, augmented reality (AR), is looking at a USD$90bn (£67bn) market by 2020 – a figure which, if met, would be 15-times greater than in 2016. It is fair to say, AR is [...]

Across the globe, offline FMCG retail and e-commerce are on a collision course to create a new converged reality. Amazon’s multibillion-dollar acquisition of Whole Foods is leading the charge, with Alibaba's investment in Indian grocer Bigbasket likely to be in [...]

Once a company that had just one product on its inventory, SunMoon is discovering a whole new world of possibilities that an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can bring. It is, however, taking the time to ensure all processes and [...]

More than three-quarters (76%) of consumers have made a purchase on Amazon during their Christmas shopping, with 48% making it their first port of call when searching for items. These are among the findings from RetailTechNews’ latest whitepaper, which also [...]