Following on from the success of Black Friday 2014, where the majority of consumers (66%) polled as part of Hammerson’s Shopper Tribes Report said they took advantage of special offers to treat themselves, rather than stocking up on Christmas gifts, retailers
With just less than one month to go until what global ecommerce consultancy Salmon predicts will be the UK’s first £1bn online shopping day, retailers should be in the final stages of preparations for Black Friday 2015. To help in final preparation
The research conducted by predictive analytics firm, Blue Yonder found that the 75% of people that took to the shops last Black Friday felt ‘the shops were too busy’, ‘there was not enough of a discount’, ‘it was traumatic and not worth the
More people buy for themselves in the run up to Black Friday, according to findings from Connexity’s Self-Gifting Report. The report of over 38,000 global online buyers, includes data from 2012-14. Key highlights include: More people are buying for themselves over Black Friday,
With just 25 working days until the Black Friday-Cyber Monday weekend, ParcelHero says eBay’s new Argos Click & Collect delivery options are ideally timed. There are only 25 working days until the Black Friday weekend and eight weeks until Christmas, and the
Doddle reckons UK retailers will start discounting before Black Friday and spread the offers over a wider period. CEO, Tim Robinson, said: “At Doddle we think the spike is going to start sooner than expected. Retailers are likely to discount
Retailers need to pay as much attention to preparing themselves for the days and weeks that follow Black Friday, as they do to the day itself. That’s the message from retail solutions provider, Crimson, as it launches its new application
Centiro has warned that retailers’ risk damaging customer relationships if they continue to operate ‘best-effort’ delivery networks. With the huge growth of online retail and consumers demanding greater speed and convenience, retailers’ delivery capabilities are coming under increasing strain. They
Boxwood’s Christmas Trading Report reveals the 2014 Christmas trading period proved to be even more challenging than usual for many retailers. An unseasonably mild autumn together with the chaotic scenes we saw on Black Friday and Cyber Monday left many
UK shoppers reached for the plastic in record numbers in the run-up to Christmas according the latest data from Worldpay, the UK’s leading payments processor. Worldpay handled an unprecedented 600m credit and debit card transactions in the UK during December,
UK retail sales declined by 0.4%, on a like-for-like basis from December 2013, when they had increased 0.4% on the preceding year, according to the December BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. On a total basis, sales were up 1.0%, against a
Click and collect accounted for 50% of online orders at toy retailer The Entertainer in the week before Christmas, up from 25% in non-peak trading. The service, powered by hybris’s omni-channel software, came into its own in 2014, according to
The Black Friday shopping phenomenon well and truly took off in the UK this year, as consumers spent 18% more than they did on the same day last year to get hold of the best deals in the run-up to Christmas. The huge
A surge of interest in Black Friday saved monthly footfall during November, as retail traffic increased by +7.8% in the UK and +18.2% in Ireland, according to Experian. The sharp upturn in activity towards the end of the month led
Akamai, a leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, has announced the figures for retail traffic volumes on its intelligent platform at the end of November, and simultaneous research carried out with
Record shopper numbers boosted the UK non-food retail market in November, with Black Friday posting a 23% increase in footfall on last year. The global retail and footfall consultant, Ipsos Retail Performance, compiles the Retail Traffic Index (RTI), which is derived from
Steve Rothwell, founder of Eagle Eye Solutions, suggests UK retailers could have achieved stronger results through more effective use of technology and incentives ‘A picture speaks a thousand words’ or in the case of Black Friday this year, a picture
ChannelAdvisor has tracked sales at all the leading online marketplaces on Cyber Monday and Black Friday and compared spend with last year. The results are as follows Cyber Monday, 1 December: CSE – up 25.6% from the same time last year Google Shopping
Maplin Electronics reports it has achieved its best ever online sales day on Black Friday with online sales up over 70% and stores sales up over 30% on a like-for-like basis. Chief executive office of Maplin, John Cleland, said: “Online sales were driven by traffic
Online fashion retailer, Missguided, reports it enjoyed an outstanding weekend of sales following promotions on Black Friday and across the Cyber Weekend. The retailer, which recently launched its second collaboration with pop-star Nicole Scherzinger and a range of plus size clothing for young women,
ChannelAdvisor has tracked sales at all the leading online marketplaces over Thanksgiving and Black Friday and compared spend with last year. The results are as follows Thanksgiving, Thursday, 27 November: Google Shopping is up 58% from the same time last year Amazon
New research from retail finance specialist Pay4Later reveals 53% of people expect to do some of their Christmas shopping on Cyber Monday, which is set to be the busiest day of the year for online shopping in the UK. But, by relying on
As Black Friday heralds the beginning of the annual Christmas shopping rush, data from Worldpay reveals Britain’s department stores – the flagships of British retail – can expect to double their takings this weekend, with stores in the North of England set to benefit
As one of the biggest shopping weekends of 2014 approaches, leading online retailer Argos is predicting a UK mobile shopping frenzy this year with more visits than ever to its website and apps on Cyber Monday coming from shoppers using smartphones and
Retail Times has been inundated by pundits and predictions for retail trading tomorrow. Here’s a flavour of the latest sales forecasts and tips for success Craig Sears-Black, UK managing director of Manhattan Associates, said: “A new retail trend is showing that some of Britain’s
