Amazon Prime Day has officially been announced for June 21 and 22, 2021, and consumers are already gearing up for Amazon’s biggest shopping day of the year. Digital commerce has increased immensely over the past year and is on track to surpass $11 trillion in sales in 2021 — Amazon …
Read More »Making retail sustainable by taking it virtual
Lysa Campbell, CEO at Retail Marketing Group explores how online retailers can look to maximise content and user interaction, enhanced by virtual reality. The last year has seen retail take a big hit, with companies finding new and innovative ways to cater to consumer needs. The Internet has been the …
Read More »60% sales increase for heritage kitchen brand, Swan, thanks to eCommerce channels
Electrical appliances from Swan have seen a huge increases in sales following the company’s decision to embrace eCommerce channels as its primary sales route. Using a multi-channel approach including an enhanced website and pure play online retailers such as OnBuy.com, Swan has capitalised on the online retailing opportunity and as a result has …
Read More »Brother UK strengthens label range with new partnership and custom offering
Brother UK is partnering with NiceLabel. The new partnership comes as Brother UK launches its new custom label service, which enables customers to create bespoke labels to order in a range of shapes, sizes and colours. Aaron Hopkinson, product and solutions manager for specialist products and services and labelling at Brother UK, …
Read More »ScS Partners with Go Instore
Go Instore is partnering with ScS to launch myScSlive, a live video service designed to offer personalised advice for customers shopping from the comfort of their own home. The myScSlive service, powered by Go Instore, allows staff to deliver a virtual store experience and recreate the one-to-one in-store interaction for …
Read More »Where does JavaScript belong as bots get more sophisticated?
Andy Still, CTO, Netacea discusses how hackers are taking advantage of websites that use JavaScript. We have a bot problem. At least half of all web traffic is automated, and some of this traffic is buying our gig tickets, our sneakers, our plane tickets and our games consoles before the …
Read More »QBS Software partners with SmartBear
SmartBear, a provider of software development and quality tools is partnering with QBS Software. “QBS Software’s approach to the delivery of best-in-class software solutions and their level of service makes them an ideal channel partner for SmartBear,” said Darin Welfare, SVP, International Sales and Channel at SmartBear. “We’ve been very …
Read More »Under Armour teams up with Emakina & Fluent Commerce to create a new e-commerce platform
Global sports company Under Armour, distributed by Athlocity L.L.C across the Middle East, has over 30 brick and mortar stores in the region. In collaboration with Emakina, they will be expanding their consumer reach by adding an e-commerce platform to their sales channels Consumers across the region are some of the …
Read More »GoDaddy’s new WooCommerce extensions for WordPress ecommerce hosting
GoDaddy Inc.‘s new plugin bundle expansion for its Managed WordPress Ecommerce customers features free access to over 75 WooCommerce extensions. The new extensions come from GoDaddy’s recent acquisition of SkyVerge, a leading WooCommerce product developer. The new extensions give greater flexibility to create fully featured and customised WooCommerce platforms. The …
Read More »Will High Street stores turn to the dark side to survive their battle with e-commerce?
A new study by the home delivery expert ParcelHero reveals the store of tomorrow might replace shoppers with robots and stock with digital screens. The reopening of non-essential stores has seen shoppers flocking back to the High Street. Footfall soared over 90% during the first week that non-essential stores reopened. However, …
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