Retail Industry

Learning to Love the Lazy Shopper - How the High Street Can Embrace the I-Street

Darina Kerr | Posted 13.05.2013 | UK
Darina Kerr

The trend for customers to shop less with their feet and more with their fingers has hastened the demise of recent high street casualties including Jessops, HMV, Blockbuster and Republic. The collapse of these household names is stark evidence of the fundamental shift in how we buy and what we buy.

Finding A New Master's Voice? HMV Announces New FD

Posted 07.08.2012 | UK

Following last night's media speculation, troubled music retailer HMV has confirmed the appointment of Ian Kenyon as its financial director. Kenyon...

Are Retailers Successfully Adopting Multichannel Approaches to Keep Up With the Rise in Online Shopping?

Raconteur Media | Posted 04.06.2012 | UK Tech
Raconteur Media

Why is it that a product or deal displayed in a retailer's store may not be available to buy online or vice versa? Or why is it sometimes not possible to return a product bought online to the same retailer's store?

Mixing Bricks with Clicks

Raconteur Media | Posted 13.05.2012 | UK
Raconteur Media

In a winter of economic discontent, growing online sales combined with high street trading is a brighter outlook says James Wallman It doesn't mat...

Retail Businesses: Finding a Home Across Social Networks and the Web

Tim Gibbon | Posted 04.05.2012 | UK Tech
Tim Gibbon

The below recommendations are equally as applicable if a brand is not new to the web, but is looking to explore individual destinations for product ranges and/or services.

Venturing Onto the Web? So, What's the Value in a Domain Name?

Tim Gibbon | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK
Tim Gibbon

Last week I looked at how a website should be periodically reviewed to ensure that it's ready to handle and manage business and promotion operations e...

Back-To-School Rush Revives Retail Sector

PA | Posted 20.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education

A rush of back-to-school and university purchases saw retail sales unexpectedly bounce back last month, official figures show. Retail volumes in Se...