Category: UK retail marketing
Retailers not matching user demand for mobile selling
I can’t help but feel a sense of frustration. The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) has just released a study that confirms what many of us in the digital marketing world have suspected for some time: UK retailers are seriously behind the curve when it comes to mobile commerce. The Numbers Don’t Lie The DMA’s findings…
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Starbucks announces UK contactless payment trial
Starbucks: trialling contactless payment in UK stores Starbucks is to follow rivals such as Costa Coffee and McDonalds by offering contactless payments in its UK stores. The coffee-shop chain has signed a deal with Barclaycard, in partnership with Visa Europe, allowing consumers to pay for products by scanning their contactless credit or debit card over…
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Well done The Conran Shop
Eleven years ago, in 2000, we bought loads of plates and crockery from The Conran Shop. As is the way of these things a number of these plates broke over the years. Imagine my suprise and delight when: a) The Conran Shop still range exactly the same items. b) They had them in stock. c) There was no…
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Will Johnny Morris buy a Morgan?
Like Johnny Morris I too have a love of independent businesses and especially independent retailers. This blog post from Johnny shows his enthusiasm for the quirky independent that delivers quality. He cites the Morgan Motor Company and says: I love these cars. The automotive equivalent of a Saville Row suit, you can have them made to…
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Beadle and Crome Miss the Boat
Every year Beadle and Crome, the interiors business in the Oxford Road, Reading, send me a Christmas card. This of course has little to do with Christmas and their good wishes to me and my family (they don’t know us from Adam and we’ve never bought anything from them) but is more focussed on telling me about…
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Ocado and the Impact of Online Opinion
We have Tesco delivering to us on a fairly regular basis. No problems. Personally I enjoy physical food shopping at Waitrose. No problem; in fact the experience at Waitrose in Woodley on Christmas Eve was excellent. So I thought about using Ocado for home deliveries. A quick search and the following article was found quite quickly: In…
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