So Amazon filed a patent (a couple of years ago) for a floating warehouse that could help it deliver more stuff to us poor stuff-deprived consumers down here on terra firma. The surprise here is perhaps that it took so long to learn about it (top marks to CB Insights analyst Zoe Leavitt). It may…
Boxing Day footfall in the UK is down 6% so far and shopping centres are seeing a decline that’s heading towards 20%. Online may be up but that causes its own problems. What’s to blame? Step forward Black Friday.
OK, what actually happened late last week and at the weekend. Did we all shop ’til we dropped? Did we click like crazy causing websites to crash? Did we bristle with rage every time we heard the words Black Friday?
We’ve heard about pureplay e-tailers adding stores to maximise omnichannel opportunities. And we’ve heard about physical retailers boosting their online ops. But it’s rare that we hear about brands going pureplay, outside of a few tiny indies who’ve realised that trying to make a little store on a local high street pay is madness when…
L2 is back and just waiting to tell fashion businesses how badly they’re doing at digital. Quite right too. Anyway, at least this time the performance tracker isn’t blasting the luxury sector, it’s mass-to-premium retail that’s under the spotlight. So how are the assorted ranks of footwear, beauty, homewares and fashion brands doing? Well, actually…
British shoppers may be the world’s biggest online addicts but they still like to go into stores to touch and feel the goods, it seems, especially if they’re “valuable”. However, once they’re in-store, their digital addictions rise to the surface again and they now expect those stores to be tech-enabled with an array of features…
In an interview in the past few days, the CEO of merged the Yoox Net-A-Porter Group said: “One of my biggest objectives is to transform the company into a mobile-only company.” While various news outlets jumped on that statement, it’s probably not quite as bold as it seems. Convincing luxury shoppers to permanently abandon a…
Say what you like about Apple (and I’ve never held back from some harsh words about the brand) but the team in Cupertino certainly knows how to get us coming back for more. However ridiculously expensive the products are, however easy it is to smash those screens and however crazy it is that the phones,…
It’s been a roller coaster ride for UK high streets and malls in recent months what with weather woes, Brexit blues or boom, online chipping away at physical stores and lifestyle changes meaning many of us shop differently than we used to.
Will you get your must-have items this autumn? It could all depend on whether a solution is found following the collapse of Korean shipping giant Hanjin. It seems around $10.8bn/£8bn worth of goods are stuck in or outside of ports and aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
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