
Fabric lays off 40% and shifts business model
Fabric cuts 40% of staff
Fabric recently announced it was laying off 40% of its staff and changin...
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Ocado Re:imagined - STIQs view
This blog post outlines STIQs view of the new product releases in Ocado's January 2022 Re:imagine...
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How will automation fare post-Covid 19?
The view of all vendors is that automation will become more important as a result of Covid-19. Wh...
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A review of Retail Without Borders 2020
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RWB remains the number one event for cross border trading on marketplaces despite the understan...
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A Review of Ecommerce Expo, London Olympia, UK September 2019
Ecommerce Expo, 26 Sep, 2019
Olympia, London, United Kingdom
STIQs verdict (of 5 possible):
Ev...
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A review of IRX 2019; a new AMR supplier joining the market?
Orderwise to launch in-house developed robot in the next months! Oh, and IRX was not that great a trade show.
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A review of LogiMat, 2019
OUR VERDICT:
LogiMAT is held annually at Messe Stuttgart in Germany. It is one of the key logist...
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NRF 2019 (National Retail Federation), New York Jan 13-15
This simply is the place to be if you are into retail and retail technology. The show attracts 37...
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Manhattan Associates #MAExchange in Amsterdam 2018
Push Possible
Manhattan Associates organises an annual event in Europe for EMEA customers. This w...
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Are ecommerce retailers prepared for coordinated consumer action?
Security breaches are an almost daily occurence, but...
On an almost daily basis we hear about se...
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A review of eCommerce Expo, Olympia London September 26-27, 2018
Styleintelligence view: (down from 5 in 2017)
eCommerce Expo is one of the largest ecommerce eve...
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The real reason for the demise of high street retailers - customer service
Retail is detail... and customer service.
Long gone are the days when you could instruct your st...
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A review of Retail Without Borders by We Are Pentagon
Definitely worth visiting!
Retail Without Borders 2018 #RWB18 is one of the better conferences ...
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Retailers IT estate the next battle ground for suppliers & partners?
On our recent visit to NRF2018 we saw the new piece of EPOS hardware Square payments had just rec...
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The Boohoo & Missguided effect is creating new business in Manchester; this time LOTD
Sitting in a cafe a day or two before Christmas 2017 we saw a bus with an advertisment promoting ...
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China Watch: Self-Serve Convenience Stores
Self-service stores is a big thing in China. At what point will Chinese companies lead and businesses like Amazon follow?
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Gamification - making online shopping fun! (a chat with Hullabalook)
Hullabalook aim to make product discovery fun from its current offices located in True.'s incuba...
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Last mile delivery using network of autonomous delivery vehicles
Last mile? Add wheels to parcel lockers and provide autonomous driving capapbilities!
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Show Review: FinTech Connect Live, Excel, London, UK. Dec 6-7, 2017
FinTech Connect Live, Excel, London, UK. Dec 6-7, 2017
Our score for this show is 4/5.
We visited...
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Breakfast meeting @ Retail Week Prospect, 4 Dec 2017
As many other traditional publishers, Retail Week have suffered from a slump in paper copy sales ...
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Trade show report: Ecommerce Expo, London, September 2017
Our verdict (of 5):
Admittedly we visited Ecommerce Expo in 2016 and were very impressed and the...
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The latest online retailer to go offline... Alibaba!
Today we cannot just separate online and offline... wise words by Daniel Zhang, the CEO of Alibab...
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British Fashion Ecommerce divided by geography and sector
Posted by Thomas Andersson, March 7, 2017.
When looking at the UK fashion e-commerce landscape (e...
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Boohoo plc aims from the hip with $20m bid for NastyGal crown jewels
Boohoo plc incorporated "Nasty Gal Ltd" in the UK on November 21st, 2016. This was renamed "Boo...
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Where has the omni-channel gone?
Omni-channel retailing has been one of the most talked about concepts in retailing for a while. T...
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Using gamification to drive inventory discovery and conversion rate?
Gamification of Fashion Ecommerce
Offering your visitors to interact with your inventory in new...
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Style Advice Website Thread.com Raises £4m from Balderton and Beringea.
In May 2016 Thread.com raised £4m from Balderton Capital and Beringea. The company has raised £1...
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Goxip Raises $1.6m - Making Instagram Shoppable
Goxip, the social shopping company based in Hong Kong has raised $1.6m from two Asian investors...
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Burberry Seeking Chief of Cost Cutting
(Image source: Burberry Plc)
The British luxury brand has seen its fortunes reverse since Angela ...
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Superdry moves against the grain with a 21% increase in revenues
Laundry Athletics Ltd, the company behind the SuperDry brand and headquartered in Cheltenham, Un...
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Online going offline?
Made.com opened its first public showroom in 2015 and in the last few days NotOnTheHighstreet.com...
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Farfetch raises $110million
Our first reaction to Farfetch raising another $110million taking its total funding to $300millio...
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Virtual Fitting market shaping up for Kids too?
An EU funded project "Kidsize" has been launched to provide virtual fitting for childrens sizes w...
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New Report - FashionTech: Visual Search
Consumers are becoming increasingly visual in their online activities.
Visual Search technologie...
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