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As shoppers return to the High Street, online sales have fallen for four months in a row, with Amazon and Etsy reporting a marked slowdown in growth. But the e-commerce expert ParcelHero predicts online will level out at a quarter of all retail sales. Shoppers may be flooding back to …

Majority of High Street retailers reject plans for mandatory Covid ‘Shopping Passports’, according to new survey * 58% of retailers reject idea of “Covid passports” for customers visiting shops * 80% of stores think mandatory vaccination passports would drive more people to shop online than in store * 79% claim …

Russell Loarridge, Director, ReachFive insists it is time for retailers to bring back the joy in shopping and that means rethinking the online customer experience. The technology exists to move online retail closer to the high street experience, such as customer identity and access management; content platforms; recommendation engines. The technology …

The final Saturday before Christmas has become known as ‘Super Saturday’ as Christmas shopping, both in store and online, reaches a crescendo.  A quirk of the calendar means that December 2019, for the first time in four years, has just three Saturdays rather than four, before Christmas. That will turn …

New research from Gekko has revealed that 73% of UK consumers think independent retailers should collaborate. The ‘Collaborative Retail’ report features comments from over 2,000 UK adults, and has found that many believe independent retailers should “think creatively and work together” to avoid going to the wall and revitalise beleaguered …

New research from LDC has found that nearly 12% of UK shopping locations were empty in the first half of 2019, indicating the we’ve now hit the highest number of empty outlets in the past five years across high streets, shopping centres and retail parks. LDC’s review of more than …

Every day, 115 employees within the UK retail sector are attacked in their place of work. I personally found this statistic from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) to be shockingly high. As someone who has never got into a situation that has led me to harass or attack someone working …

E-commerce home delivery specialist ParcelHero has spoken out about Chancellor Hammond’s decision to push for an international tax on web giants at the G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting, and his earlier announcement of a new independent British ‘Amazon Tax’. “In the dying days of this Cabinet, the current Chancellor is still determined …

With recent rumours that Google is planning to open up its first dedicated retail store, Laura Barnes looks at how this move could transform the high street, and what indies have to offer that big brand can’t.

RichRelevance’s Michael Ni warns that retailers “must avoid complacency” and be proactive in driving brand loyalty to ensure sales remain strong.