Online sales are soaring in the UK. So much so, that Brits spend more online, per household, than any other country. Yet, despite the fact the first purchase made over the web was over 14 years ago, many brands still have [...]

Moss Bros, East, Mothercare, Carpetright, Toys R Us, Maplin, New Look, Poundworld, and House of Fraser – it has been a torrid 2018 for the UK high street with liquidations, CVAs, and restructurings. Here, David Courtier-Dutton, founder and CEO, SoundOut, explains [...]

The concept of virtual reality (VR) as a serious commercial concept has been brewing for well over a decade, with the technology regularly heralded as the next big step in gaming, entertainment, and design. In this piece for RetailTechNews, John [...]

RetailTechNews’ weekly Amazon Watch brings you some of the company’s biggest moves from the past seven days, analysing how the giant is revolutionising the retail space. In this week’s edition: Amazon's Could Represent 10% of All Retail by 2020; Walmart [...]

Because a significant part of its hardware business is driven by resellers, Hewlett-Packard (HP) may not always have access to its customer data and needs to find ways to work around such limitations. Over the last couple of years, as [...]

This week, China's two largest online retail operators have posted higher quarterly revenues and attributed the growth to efforts in driving their respective offline-online commerce strategy. Alibaba said its revenue climbed 61% in the quarter ended 31 March, 2018, hitting ¥61.9bn [...]

Although omnichannel has long been a buzzword in retail, implementing a successful omnichannel strategy is something which more often than not proves easier said than done. In this piece, RetailTechNews and Brian Green, head of EMEA sales, Magento Commerce, discuss [...]

Retailers have known for years that to stay ahead of the game, they must improve their technological capabilities. However, some retailers have adapted to this change better than others. In this Q&A with RetailTechNews, Matt Sebek (pictured below), VP of [...]

The change digital technology is driving in retail is there for all to see. However, while some retailers are diving in at the deep end, others are only dipping their toes in the water for now. In this Q&A with [...]

Location data has long been a widely used technique for retailers to engage their customers. In this Q&A with RetailTechNews, Doug Chisholm, CEO, Rippll, outlines how retailers are leveraging this information, what more they can be doing with their location [...]