Retail

Amazon’s Buyout Of Whole Foods To Speed Up Its Move Into Grocery Sales

ANALYSIS: The on-line retailing giants long quest to become a major player in the grocery industry is about to come…

7 years ago

Salesforce Gives Some Personality To Commerce Cloud Einstein

Salesforce is pushing its Einstein AI platform hard and personalisation is the order of the day

8 years ago

Waitrose Quick Check Mobile Scan App Combines Best Of Physical & Online Retail

Waitrose Quick Check lets customers scan items as they move around the shop, saving time, boosting sales and giving supermarket…

8 years ago

Gumtree CTO: Giving Up Control Is Worth It To Foster Tech Responsibility

INTERVIEW: Gumtree UK CTO Bas Anneveld talks cloud, microservices, big data, security and the abolition of top down development

8 years ago

eBay: Big Data Can Humble A CEO And Change The Future Of Retail

eBay's head of analytics in Europe says big data will change both online and offline retail forever - if you…

8 years ago

Silicon 360: Gumtree UK CTO – Cloud Was Easier For Us But We Still Had Challenges

Gumtree UK CTO Bas Anneveld tells our Silicon 360 panel why it used the cloud and what challenges it faced…

8 years ago

Drone Crime Rises In UK As Switzerland Trials Deliveries

Incidents involving the use of drones in nuisance or criminal cases grew twelve-fold in the UK over the past two…

8 years ago

Jack Dorsey’s Square Mobile Payment System Arrives In UK

Square arrives in the UK, helping even the smallest of retailers digitise and accept mobile payments

8 years ago

Co-op Hopes Overhauled Network And IT Will Support Food Retail Growth

BT and Co-operative Group agree five year deal to overhaul IT infrastructure and make it simpler and easier to shop.…

8 years ago

DFS Embraces Rackspace, Cloud And Virtualisation To Drive Digital Transformation And Suck-Up Sales

INTERVIEW: DFS discusses how Rackspace partnership helps it cope with sale demand and how mobile, VR and AR are the…

8 years ago

Card Scammers Hack Top Restaurants In POS Attack

A list of well-known restaurants across the US are amongst those affected by the latest mass point-of-sale breach

8 years ago

Mastercard And Oracle Bring Smartphone Digital Payment Service To The World Of Retail And Hospitality

Partnership will seek to improve the in-store experience for consumers in restaurants and retail stores

8 years ago

Ocado Works With EU Universities To Create Soft Touch Robotic Arm

The online grocery giant is looking to further push its automation agenda

8 years ago

Doddle: The Right Network Infrastructure Makes Click & Collect, Well, A Doddle

INTERVIEW: CTO Gary O'Connor explains how a network infrastructure transformation has fuelled the rapid growth of UK-based click & collect…

8 years ago

Tesco Bank Halts Transactions After Online Fraud

Cash taken from 40,000 bank accounts over the weekend, prompting Tesco to halt online transactions

8 years ago

Sainsbury’s Local To Get Contactless ‘Before Christmas’ But No Word On Larger Supermarkets

Sainsbury's lack of support for contactless has been noticeable, but the supermarket has confirmed the first stage of rollout

8 years ago

Ocado Mixes AWS & Google Cloud Because Retailers Fear Amazon Having Their Data

Online retailer Ocado uses a mix of AWS and GCP for its cloud needs so that retail customers of its…

8 years ago

Amazon CTO: We Were A Technology Company Long Before AWS

Boxworks 2016: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says Amazon has always been a technology company, just one that happens to do…

8 years ago

How 3D Printing Will Change Your Industry

3D printing is on the verge of becoming a mainstream technology but how will it change your business?

8 years ago

Boots Hopes iPads And IBM SalesAssist Will Maximise High Street Advantage

Boots co-develops SalesAssist app for iPad with Apple and IBM, claiming 3,700 tablets will give staff as much information as…

8 years ago

IT Life: Walkbase CTO Talks Analytics And Connected Worlds

Bjorn Sjolund, CTO at Walkbase, talks us through his life in IT so far

8 years ago

Amazon Brings Full Supermarket Delivery To The UK

AmazonFresh now available to Prime customers across London, with nationwide expansion coming soon

8 years ago

Worldpay: SMBs Must Adopt New Payment Methods Or Face Extinction

Reluctance to introduce new systems could see up to 60,00 British small businesses could face the chop as consumers ditch…

8 years ago

Contactless Payments Set To Surge Across UK

Recent Android Pay launch spurs awareness of contactless payments in the UK to new high

8 years ago

Deloitte Backs Blockchain With New Development Lab

Dublin-based centre will look to encourage blockchain development and roll out across the financial industry

9 years ago

Contactless Will Help Card Payments Overtake Cash ‘In 2021’

The simplicity and popularity of contactless will see card payments overtake cash within five years, according to Payment Assocation

9 years ago

NXP Takes Contactless Payments Into The Home And Beyond

NXP FTF: NXP says its first POS system will allow more companies to build contactless payments to tables, TVs and…

9 years ago

Are Free Returns Hampering UK E-Commerce?

Barclaycard research claims that managing returns is damaging profits for many British online businesses

9 years ago

Amazon Takes Prime Now To Leeds And West Yorkshire

One-hour delivery for over 15,000 Items now available for Amazon Prime Members in Leeds

9 years ago

Almost All Apps Have Flaws, Trustwave Study Finds

2016 Trustwave Global Security Report reveals shocking cybercrime trends

9 years ago