Tag: retail
Is Black Friday Good for UK Retailers?
We seem all too happy to follow US fads; Halloween and “have a nice day” continue to grate on me. One of our latest adoptions is Black Friday. I set out to look at the impact on retail profits and the issues I found shouted out cautionary notes to all retailers. My starting point was…
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Business Gets Mobile
Here are some of the facts I talked about last Friday at our Business Gets Mobile event. Retail sales via smartphones and tablets have more than doubled to £8.2 bn in 2013, accounting for 18% of total UK e-commerce sales. Tablet commerce has seen particularly high growth, reaching £4.8 bn Wristbands, like Nike+ Fuelband, smartwatches,…
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Sony to make last MiniDisc stereo system in March
I looked after the retail launch of MiniDisc (MD) in the UK. I still have, and occasionally use, MiniDisc equipment. Sony announcing that they are to discontinue MD is really no great surprise but it did bring back some great memories; our retail launch took us around nightclubs the length and breadth of the country!…
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NCR and PayPal agreement makes sense
Most press releases and announcements fail to pass the ‘so what’ test. They might be important to the client company but they are often dull and uninteresting. Then along comes a release that tells of things that will really make a difference. And here is one of these gems: NCR Corporation and PayPal, Inc., today announced an agreement to…
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The secrets of ‘showrooming’: price is not the only reason people shop online
While you fight your way around the town centre shops this Christmas, van drivers and couriers are beating a trail to our front door delivering the spoils of an earnest online shopping campaign executed by my wife. I had thought that my wife’s online shopping was primarily an economic choice but research at Kellogg has…
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