Retail

You Can Now Spend More Money Using Contactless Than Ever Before

Limit on contactless spending to be raised to £30 from September

10 years ago

Amazon Now Controls A Quarter Of Online UK Sales

Major Christmas boost pushes retail titan into conquering position in the UK market

10 years ago

Omni-Channel And Beyond – Are Supermarkets Ready For The Next Wave Of IT Change?

SQS' David Rigler tells TechWeekEurope why supermarkets need to be on the ball when implementing new technology

10 years ago

How One UK Retailer Upped Its Online Transaction Game

Liberty Games needed to provide its global customer base with the assurance that their transactions would be safe and fraud-free

10 years ago

Barclaycard Brings A Bit Of Glove Love To Contactless Shopping

Laden down with bags? Concept wearable device allows contactless payment with just a wave of the hand

10 years ago

‘Please Sir, We Want More Mobile Payments’ – UK Shoppers

Oxygen8 study finds rising demand for goods and services supporting the technology

10 years ago

72 Percent Of UK Retailers Are Not Cyber Secure This Christmas

Despite Christmas surges around Black Friday and Cyber Monday, large amounts of customer data was worryingly available to hackers, Sophos…

10 years ago

Amazon Calls In Robot Helpers To Deal With Christmas Rush

Amazon has deployed 15,000 robots at its US warehouses to boost capacity and reduce shipping times

10 years ago

Argos Opens Underground Collect Store To Speed Up Digital Shopping

Company also launches eReceipts scheme as part of its online transformation

10 years ago

Over Half Of UK Shoppers Now Regularly Using Digital Wallets

Skrill survey finds major generational gap in paying habits, with younger consumers more likely to embrace new technology

10 years ago

Amazon Teams Up With The Post Office To Ensure No Late Deliveries This Christmas

Over 10,500 Post Office branches added to delivery options

10 years ago

IT Life: Takeaway Special

Just Eat CTO Carlos Morgado gives us his recipe for IT success

10 years ago

Tesco Shoppers To Get Free In-Store BT Wi-Fi

Supermarket chain teams up with BT to offer free connection across UK stores

10 years ago

Contactless Payments “Now Close To Becoming Mainstream” In The UK, Says Worldpay

Number of contactless transactions rose by more than 150 percent in the last six months, with supermarket adoption helping spur…

10 years ago

Tablet Shopping Set To Spur On Record Sales This Christmas

Majority of retailers admit to being optimistic about targets than last year, Barclays survey finds

10 years ago

Samsung Says Technology Can Save The High Street

Samsung report finds that young shoppers are driving a change in retail habits

10 years ago

Retail Sector Best At Using Big Data, But Skills Shortage Hindering Others

Retail sector currently utilising data analytics the best, according to EMC’s Big Data League

10 years ago

Staples ‘Investigating’ Possible Payment Card Data Breach

Staples may be the latest major US retailer to be hit by a payment-systems breach, the company has confirmed

10 years ago

Intel Makes Retail Payments More Secure With New IoT Security Tool

Intel Data Protection Technology for Transactions should mean fewer retailers run the risk of having customer data stolen

10 years ago

Tesco Tries Out Mobile Payment Shopping

Trial of PowaTag app available this week at Tesco's Dean Street Soho store

10 years ago

Amazon To Create 1000 New UK Jobs

Expansion will take Amazon's UK workforce to over 7,000

10 years ago

Dixons Carphone Hoping For £5bn Windfall From Internet Of Things

IoT opportunities were “an underpinning factor” in bringing the two companies together, says company head

10 years ago

Zapp Teams Up With Retail Giants To Bring Mobile Payments To The High Street

New service will be introduced next year at Sainsbury’s, Asda, House of Fraser and many more

10 years ago

UPS Hacked, Customer Financial Data Could Be Compromised

The world’s largest package-shipping company says it found malware at 51 retail outlets in the US

10 years ago

US Supermarket Chain SuperValu Suspects Hackers Stole Customer Data

The retail giant claims there’s no reason to panic after admitting its Point-of-Sale systems were infected by malware

10 years ago

Amazon To Focus On Wearables With A Dedicated Online Store

The new Wearable Technology store already features 100 devices, including smart clothing and bike helmets fitted with sensors

10 years ago

IT LIfe: Geo-fencing Will Change Mobile Retail

Matt Wilkins believes in moving mobile retail technology forward

10 years ago

Tesco Plans Smartphone And Hudl 2 Tablet

Tesco CEO Philip Clarke says Hudl 2 and own-branded smartphone will be released later this year

11 years ago

Details Of 100,000 Morrisons Staff Stolen In Major Data Theft

Home addresses and bank details among information stolen by hackers from Morrisons headquarters

11 years ago

Google To Open New York Store – Report

Google is reportedly to open a brick-and-mortar shop in New York city to showcase its products and services

11 years ago