2015 was the year of the mobile wallet. But despite the fast take-up, the payment method didn’t quite take off in the way it should for 2016. However, the conditions are right for mobile wallets to really take flight this year. Mobile payments are set to expand fast over the next 12 months with Samsung…
Saturday’s always a big shopping day in the UK so what happened this year on the first day after Christmas? Well chez Halliday, we got up late and ate Turkey sandwiches. And elsewhere? Everybody went shopping. And how. Presumably buoyed by an ever-rising number of gift cards received from their nearest and dearest, footfall surged…
It’s Christmas Day and many of us are doing what we usually do on the biggest festive day in the Western calendar when most shops are shut – shopping. Yep, Britons are expected to spend over £700m online today. OK, that’s relatively small-scale compared to Black Friday’s spend (£1bn-plus) but it’s still pretty huge considering…
The House of Fraser Christmas advertising slogan couldn’t have been more prophetic: Your Christmas, Your Rules. Shoppers are in the driving seat this year and it’s left the retail sector reeling. So, three questions retail analysts are asking at moment. How much of a damp squib will the post-Christmas sales be in-store? How big will the…
They called it Panic Saturday, the day UK shoppers would wake up and think “OMG, it’s Christmas on Friday, I must go shopping.” So did it happen? Not really. Stores geared up for retail madness but shoppers woke up and said “yeah, whatever…”
Has this been a good festive shopping season for the fashion sector? The jury’s still out on that one. But the latest figures from John Lewis suggest it’s not been spectacular. It seems consumers aren’t exactly rushing to stock up on the sparkly partywear that’s making almost every fashion store into a twinkling wonderland at the…
Three stories have really excited my interest this week. And no, it’s not the Burberry ad campaign nor all those pre-fall collections. Instead it’s: Robots are becoming a significant consumer spending sector. John Lewis is at least one bricks-and-mortar retailer that expects its online sales to be bigger than store sales within four years. And the…
We’ve got used to online sales rising faster than physical store sales. But we’ve also got used to the fact that the volume of goods bought through those physical stores is so many times larger than digital shopping that the channel is still way out in front in terms of market share. But not for much…
It may not be the world’s most mature e-commerce market but it’s set to grow 10-fold in the next five years. Which market am I talking about? India, of course. A new report says it’ll be worth $100bn in five years and perhaps $250bn in a decade, as internet penetration increases, more consumers get smartphones…
So, the dust has settled on Black Friday and Cyber Monday and we can finally see what impact they had on shopping. In the UK, it was … well, very little. Really? After all that fuss, crashed websites and reports of surging sales? Yes, according to a report from Visa and Markit that showed little…
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