RetailTechNews rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European retail technology space. In this week’s edition: Shopping via voice assistants entices customers to spend 500% more; Retail could be worst affected by cloud failure incidents; and Good times for [...]

RetailTechNews’ weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world. In this week’s edition: Technology key focus for retail customer experience improvements; Consumers are embracing the connected retail experience; and are consumers ready to go cashless? Technology Key Focus [...]

Blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin, has potential far beyond cryptocurrency. It could even revolutionise retail. Writing exclusively for RetailTechNews, Cesare Gussago, Riccardo Ottolenghi, and Edmund Abel-Smith, strategy experts with PA Consulting Group, have a look at a number of potential applications [...]

RetailTechNews’ weekly Amazon Watch brings you some of the company’s biggest moves from the past seven days, analysing how the giant is revolutionising the retail space. In this week’s edition: Virtual Dash Buttons roll-out to third parties; Amazon purchases Blink to enhance [...]

RetailTechNews rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European retail technology space. In this week’s edition: Retail continues to grow; M&S invests in technology transformation; and Mobile remains challenging for retailers. E-commerce to Reach USD$1.5tn (£1tn) by 2021 According to [...]

RetailTechNews rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European retail technology space. In this week’s edition: German media giant ProSiebenSat1 buys e-commerce marketer Kairion; Number of retail insolvencies in the UK on the rise; and New functionalities to [...]

This week, Alibaba has announced plans to expand its network of Hema supermarkets with another 30 locations in Beijing, up from the current five. Scheduled to open by end-2018, the new physical stores would beef up deliveries for some 1.5 [...]

This week, we kick off the new year with a look at how Alibaba is adding merchants to its ecosystem by modernising China's convenience stores as well as arming local prisoners with e-commerce skillsets. The Chinese online retailer runs a programme [...]

The death of physical shops, and indeed the high street, has long been predicted ever since online shopping began to grow in earnest. And the figures around online spending certainly back that up: last year in the UK, we spent [...]

One of the fastest growing tech verticals out there, augmented reality (AR), is looking at a USD$90bn (£67bn) market by 2020 – a figure which, if met, would be 15-times greater than in 2016. It is fair to say, AR is [...]