Tag: retailers

  • Is It the End of the Line for Cash?

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    Cashless societies could become the norm but much will depend on consumer confidence in the available options and the level of security. Getting rid of cash has long been on the agenda of credit card providers, which trade on the fact that they can provide transaction data to the retailers they service. But now a…

    Is It the End of the Line for Cash?
  • The secrets of ‘showrooming’: price is not the only reason people shop online

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    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…

    home delivery on the doorstep
  • E-commerce trends…and it’s not all Facebook

    Boardrooms and marketing teams all over the country continue to try and understand the power and direction of e-commerce. E-commerce is evolving. Instead of shoppers simply sitting at their desktops, putting items into a virtual shopping basket, retailers are trying to account for the changing shape of the web and how shoppers access it, whether…