Tag Archives: Retail

Cradlepoint’s 5G enterprise router for the wireless WAN era

Cradlepoint’s E3000 Series 5G Enterprise Router provides businesses with fast, agile, secure, and resilient 5G connectivity for primary, failover, or SD-WAN use cases without traditional performance compromises. “The pandemic has drastically altered the business climate, forcing companies to embrace technology like 5G to enable their WANs to become more agile …

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UK online sales will settle at £12.8bn, as e-commerce’s 25% market share becomes the ‘new normal’

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 …

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90% of Companies Across the UK and Europe Are in Digital Darkness

Digitopia has found that 90% of businesses do not measure digital transformation strategy and are unaware of the progress that they have made throughout their journey. The same survey, which assessed businesses across the UK and Europe, also found that 65% of respondents blame this lack of awareness on being …

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DivideBuy’s new merchant guide reveals benefits and logistics of adding PoS finance at checkout

DivideBuy’s new eBook, “How to attract customers with interest free credit: A retailer’s guide to offering credit with confidence,” provides resources about interest free payment methods. These include the benefits for retailers and consumers, what merchants can expect during implementation of a solution, and data from its retailer partnerships. For …

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Brands and companies need to make seamless, intuitive customer journeys the digital priority

In today’s increasingly digital-led way of life, retailers, service providers and other businesses are digitalising more of their operations and dealing with customers across a range of channels – whether it’s via a website, mobile app, email and other messaging formats, social media, or even the old-fashioned phone call. But …

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34% of UK companies close down after falling victim to ransomware

 Data presented by the Atlas VPN research team reveals that 34% of businesses in the UK are forced to close down as a consequence of falling victim to ransomware attacks. The vast majority of firms have experienced substantial business impact due to ransomware attacks, including revenue loss and brand harm, unforeseen …

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Marks and Spencer partners with Go Instore and Appointedd partnership

Go Instore is partnering with Appointedd and Marks and Spencer to launch M&S Video Expert, a live-video service designed to recreate renowned, outstanding in-store services for online customers. The M&S Video Expert service, powered by Go Instore, enables staff from beauty and furniture departments to connect to customers shopping from home, offering convenience …

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OnBuy’s recruitment drive reflects post pandemic recovery

OnBuy.com has boosted its team by more than five times in the first quarter of this year, compared to the first quarter of 2020, backing up the latest job figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)showing that there has been an increase in retail jobs during the same period. Head of HR …

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Live video consultations remain popular despite the return to in-store shopping

Data released by Retail technology company, Go Instore reveals that its live video solution has remained popular despite the option to return to stores. In the first 4 weeks of physical shopping reopening, Go Instore’s live video offering has seen over 2.4 million unique visitors as customers continue to shop …

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Desigual teams up with MishiPay on mobile self-checkout shopping experience in physical stores

Fashion retailer, Desigual is deploying MishiPay in stores in Barcelona and Madrid. MishiPay is a mobile self- technology for shopping in physical shops and transferring the immediacy of the online experience to the real world. The technology enables shoppers to scan the barcode of products and pay via their mobile …

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