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  • How to Win the On-the-Go Consumer with Data

    Today's tech-savvy consumers are on the move; and if you want your brand to succeed, you need to keep moving with them. In this piece for RetailTechNews, Smriti Kataria, director for research and marketing, Near, explains how retailers and brands need [...]

    Today's tech-savvy consumers are on the move; and if you want your [...]

  • The Elephant in the Changing Room: Why Fashion Retailers are Adopting Technology to Slash Discounting & Boost Net Margins

    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 [...]

    Moss Bros, East, Mothercare, Carpetright, Toys R Us, Maplin, New Look, Poundworld, [...]

  • Successful Audience Modelling: Retail Data as a Catalyst for Creativity

    In this piece, Lars Engelbrecht, director, ad operations and solutions, Retail Media Group (pictured below), tells RetailTechNews how advertisers have increasingly come to understand that it generally makes little sense to roll out campaigns using a scattershot approach. Pure branding [...]

    In this piece, Lars Engelbrecht, director, ad operations and solutions, Retail Media [...]

  • Through the Looking Glass – a VR/AR Wonderland for Retail?

    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 [...]

    The concept of virtual reality (VR) as a serious commercial concept has [...]

  • Amazon's Could Represent 10% of All Retail by 2020; Walmart Beats Amazon to Flipkart Deal

    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 [...]

    RetailTechNews’ weekly Amazon Watch brings you some of the company’s biggest moves [...]

  • HP Balances Data Access with Retail Partners in Bid to Offer Omnichannel UX

    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 part [...]

    Because a significant part of its hardware business is driven by resellers, [...]

  • Walmart Snaps up Flipkart; April Retail Sales Slump in UK

    RetailTechNews rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European retail technology space. In this week’s edition: Walmart Snaps up Flipkart; Early Easter Responsible for UK Retail Sales Slump in April; H&M Turns to AI for Predictions & Customisation; [...]

    RetailTechNews rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European retail [...]

  • Organisations Struggling to Activate Their Data; Similarities Between Sainsbury’s & Asda Customers

    RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. In this week’s edition: Organisations Struggling to Activate Their Data; Similarities Between Sainsbury’s & Asda Customers; and The Battle for Mobile Wallet Dominance Continues. Organisations Struggling to Activate Their Data While sales and [...]

    RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. [...]

  • Weekly Focus: Alibaba & JD.com Attribute Higher Revenue to Offline-Online Push

    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 [...]

    This week, China's two largest online retail operators have posted higher quarterly [...]

  • Walmart Eyes India E-Commerce Potential with Flipkart Acquisition

    U.S. supermarket chain Walmart is making a major play for India's e-commerce market, dishing up USD$16bn (£11.82bm) for a 77% stake in local player Flipkart. The move put an end to weeks of market speculation, and was announced after SoftBank CEO, [...]

    U.S. supermarket chain Walmart is making a major play for India's e-commerce [...]