Mary Portas, Queen of Shops, is on a wild goose chase. Even before she starts her research, my money is on these conclusions: Online retail is booming, whilst UK high street retail shops’ sales are plummeting. Debenhams and others are proving this. Here are 3 views to shed some possible light: So if Mary Portas [...]
Just received this through in an email from Retail Business Technology Expo organisers, and thought it was an interesting interview for those of you in retail. So here it is, taken directly from their email: What’s the next big thing in retail? Getting a handle on m-commerce and social networking to enhance the customer experience. [...]
Sales of each of HMV’s core offerings have fallen. They have seen falls of 10% in CDs, 8% in DVDs and 12% in computer games. Business analysts have been quick to pinpoint where HMV have failed; The HMV Group are paying the price for failing to embrace the internet much sooner. E-commerce companies trading in [...]
With the cost of RFID tags starting to fall, printable tags on the horizon and the GS1 DataBar standard delayed until 2014 which coding system will win out asks Penelope Ody. The Grocer – RFID article
