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Superstrata, a new Silicon Valley-based bicycle brand, known for creating unibody custom 3D printed carbon fibre bikes, is arriving in the UK with a special Edition. Their new Oxford edition will be displayed at Smartech's store in Selfridge’s on Oxford
While we may have had to do without many things during lockdown, new data from Google Trends shows one delivery the nation didn’t want to miss out on was our beloved wine. It has been revealed that searches for Aldi
As lockdown restrictions ease, and community sports teams, clubs and causes of all kinds start to look ahead to the future, Velocity Commerce is rebooting its #BackedByVelocity initiative to support those who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Poundland has today taken the latest step in its transformation by extending its ranges of entertainment and stationery products and launching a trial of free from foods.
Central England Co-op has reiterated its call that the Government ‘urgently needs to do more’ to protect its shop staff following three shocking and brutal incidents.
Horticulture services company phs Greenleaf has launched a new range of products to support the retail and food industries to implement social distancing and hygiene measures. The new products include portable ‘freewall’ plant dividers, hand sanitising units, directional signage, bins and planting with
ARMANI and YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP announce a new strategic phase in their 20-year relationship.
Looking to cut down your plastic footprint? Look no further than your weekly shop, as Lidl is proudly introducing its first shoes to be made with 25% recycled ocean bound plastic and 75% recycled polyester, as part of its wider
M&G Real Estate and intu, joint owners of Manchester Arndale, have announced further growth to the centre’s leisure offer with the opening of Electric Playbox and Roxy Lanes this summer. Electric Playbox has signed a 10-year lease for a 3,047sq
LiveRamp, the leading global data connectivity platform, today announces that GAME, the leading high street video gaming retailer, will begin employing LiveRamp Safe Haven, a neutral and privacy-safe software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that enables companies to recognise value by connecting their
Co-op is rolling our body-worn cameras to front-line colleagues with a focus on further increasing safety in-store against a background of rising retail crime in the industry.
Major e-retailers and traditional retailers have switched to global delivery platform Sorted to optimise deliveries and digitise in-store sales during the COVID-19 crisis.
Following today’s release of Kingfisher Q2 figures to date for 2020/21, Amy Higginbotham, retail analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, comments: ‘‘Kingfisher reports a strong performance for its Q2 to date (11 weeks to 18 July), boosted
The North Face brings a new collection straight from the heart of the Mountains. Bottle Source has been produced from 18,000kgs of plastic bottles collected from waste streams in the Alps.
ArrowXL, the leading two-person delivery company, is increasing its warehousing and delivery capacity in London and the South East and moving into a brand-new Hub facility in Enfield. It follows an strong increase in volume nationwide as people continue to
Following today’s release of Matalan Q1 figures for 2020/21, Sofie Willmott, lead retail analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, comments: ‘‘With Matalan’s stores only open for around five weeks of Q1, its underdeveloped online channel has not
InPost UK, has today announced a deal to provide its 24/7 self-serve parcel locker service to leading online fashion retailer Missguided. As online shopping continues to gather pace, Missguided was keen to offer buyers a convenient contact-free delivery and returns
Jisp and Scandit have partnered with the Federation of Independent Retailers (NFRN) to give convenience store owners across the country the chance to offer shoppers a digital, frictionless shopping experience just like the big stores.
Cereal giant, Kellogg’s UK, has partnered with family-owned peanut butter manufacturer, Duerr’s, to bring consumers brand-new Crunchy Nut Peanut Butter.
Snappy Shopper, the fast-growing mobile app and web-based convenience store home delivery platform, is launching with Scotmid in Edinburgh.
Marks & Spencer is poised to cut 950 jobs as it implements a leaner, faster retail management structure, which removes role duplication and frees up store teams to focus more on the customer.
Central England Co-op has outlined its plans for in-store face coverings in its food and funeral businesses, as the retailer continues to lead the way on safety measures during these uncertain times.
The world’s leading platform for workplace safety and efficiency is now making it even easier for workers to remove points of failure, focus on core tasks and capture anything that raises concern. As businesses grapple with evolving COVID-19 regulations and
Fast growing health food supermarket, Planet Organic, has achieved COVID-19 safe status for all its 15 London locations.
SAP UK & Ireland today announced that Brakes, a B2B food delivery service and a leading supplier to the food service sector in the UK, launched a new direct-to-consumer platform on the SAP Commerce Cloud in just seven days, enabling
