Asda is launching new technology on its website – asda.com – which is designed to make online shopping more relevant to customers. Speaking at the IGD’s Trading in a Digital World event, Kieran Shanahan, home shopping director at Asda, said
Tesco wants FMCG suppliers to think of dot-com as simply another format, according to its online grocery marketing director, Andrew Miles. Speaking at the IGD’s Trading in a Digital World event, Miles revealed Tesco has appointed new roles in its
Retailers need to personalise their offer to meet individual customers’ needs, according to Tesco group chief executive Philip Clarke. Speaking at the 2012 IGD Convention, Clarke said the digital revolution has changed how people shop. “With a touch of their
Asda is equipping its store managers with iPads to encourage them to spend more time on the shop floor. It is also rolling out high speed Wi-Fi to all stores, which it claims will open up opportunities for customers, colleagues
Tesco is focusing on its Express convenience chain and fulfilling online grocery and general merchandise orders in the UK in its bid to turnaround the business, which has reported its first profits fall since 1994. Pre-tax profit for the 26
Furniture retailer Heal’s is partnering with a leading affiliate network, Rakuten LinkShare UK, to increase its presence across the web over the festive period. Heal’s said it wants to align itself with publishers to drive sales and echo the brands’ values and
Furniture retailer Barker and Stonehouse has installed live chat software on its website to improve customer service in the fastest growing area of its business. According to the retailer, the website generates more revenue than any of its bricks and
Denmark’s leading retailer, Dansk Supermarked, is aiming to become the market’s leading e-commerce player by 2016. The retailer, which operates 1,300 stores across Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Poland under the Netto, Fotex and Bilka brands, has selected global technology and
Jubilee celebrations helped drive retailer fan bases in May 2012, according to ChannelAdvisor’s latest UK Facebook Commerce Index. Amazon recorded a 14% increase in fans, chasing Marks & Spencer and Tesco; which rank second and first respectively in May’s Top
Aurora Fashions is offering customers the opportunity to make in-store purchases via their PayPal accounts. The technology for PayPal’s new inStore app has been provided by Eagle Eye Solutions and BT Expedite. It also enables retailers, whose customers have made
Wrapp, the new social gifting company backed by Skype and LinkedIn founders Niklas Zennström and Reid Hoffman, has added 13 retailers to its portfolio in the UK, including House of Fraser. Wrapp partners with retailers and media companies enabling users to
Tesco Direct and Amazon Marketplace are starting selling Mamas & Papas’ nursery and baby equipment range, excluding clothing, this month (June 2012). According to Mamas & Papas, the move is a continuation of its e-commerce strategy to open up new online
Online shopping site, mySupermarket, is on a roll. It is ratcheting up users, adding new brand stores, launching a transactional mobile website and expanding internationally on the back of a recent $10m investment led by WPP. James Foord, vp business
Siobhán Géhin, associate partner at global management consultancy, Kurt Salmon, considers the prospects for Tesco’s new online marketplace, which will open its website to third-party retailers, and compares it with Amazon across four key criteria “Since Amazon launched its Marketplace on
Leading e-commerce software provider for multi-channel sellers, eSellerPro, has received a second round of funding from Notion Capital to support growth and entry into new markets. The latest tranche is for £1m and follows Notion’s initial investment of £1.8m in
DX Group, a leading UK logistics company, has opened a new parcel sorting and distribution centre in Warrington to meet demand from the fast-growing online retail sector for secure delivery services. According to the company, the 28,000sq ft building on
Carrefour has reported a marginal rise of just 0.5% for its full year 2011. A weak fourth quarter performance, which saw group sales decline by 0.8%, capped off what has been a pretty dire year for the world’s second largest
Casino has reported a 14.5% rise in group sales for Q4 2011, driven by its international operations in emerging markets, but low growth in its home market in France. Domestic sales growth slowed to just 0.2%, compared to 1.2% growth in
Shopping website, mySupermarket, claims it has seen unprecedented Christmas visitor figures, with 4m consumers using the site over the Christmas period to take advantage of grocery, wine, health and beauty bargains from the UK’s big stores. The site said it
Shopping website VoucherCodes reports visitors to its site between Boxing Day and 9 January 2012 increased by 44% compared with last year, as the nation logged on post-Christmas to pick up the very best offers in the sales. The high
Tesco’s balance of power is shifting from the UK to overseas, the retailer’s latest trading figures reveal. Reporting results for the six weeks to 7 January 2012, Tesco said it was disappointed with its UK trading performance at Christmas. However,
A combination of offering premium and value products helped Sainsbury’s increase sales by 4.5% (excluding fuel) and by 2.1% on a like-for-like basis in the third quarter. According to Sainsbury’s, sales of its premium Taste the Difference own label grew
Asda is launching a pre-Christmas electricals promotion this weekend and cutting prices on Internet-enabled devices, including laptops, tablets and smart phones; offering low-cost mobile data tariffs and lower prices on Blu-Ray players. Offers will be available online at Asda.co.uk/direct or by
Sainsbury’s has launched a mobile website for non-food, which allows customers to search from 15,000 products across home and garden, appliances, technology, toys, games, sport and leisure. The mobile site follows the launch of Sainsbury’s iPhone app, subsequently introduced for Android and
UK retailers are failing to use the micro-blogging website, Twitter, for business purposes, according to new research by Virgin Media Business. Its survey, which coincides with Twitter’s fifth birthday on 15July 2011, explores retailer use of the social networking channel.
