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E-Commerce Berlin Expo 2023

Be inspired by e-commerce trends, use cases, forecasts and presentations from leading industry experts

Online grocery shopping during COVID-19

NITC study about barriers, access and what happens next

Think tank releases digitization action plans for business resilience

Series of direct-to-consumer (D2C) reports answers fundamental questions in massive ecommerce shift

Cloud POS technology – shaping up the future of retail and restaurant industries

The escalating trend of online payments is expected to strengthen the cloud POS market up to 2026

Can social media campaigns drive long-term sales?

Study challenges view of social media marketing as only short-term effective

Knowledge is (retail) power

The Germany Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) wants to attain knowledge to assist the retail sector and creates digital twins of stores to make it a reality

AfterPay: Survey on the shopping behaviour of Germans

German consumers will make a larger share of their purchases online in July

The Virtual Africa Big Retail Expo 2020 (ABRE 2020)

The spotlight is on the emerging trends in the retail industry at The Virtual Africa Big Retail Expo 2020, set to take place on 6th August 2020

RetailTech Lab opened a national test center in Denmark

The store of the future has opened in Lyngby. One of the partners is the IT company Delfi Technologies.

US retail spend set to decline 5.1 % this year

More than double the fall of 2009’s financial crisis

Evolving need for AI and big data analytics in mobile marketing

Global mobile marketing industry report 2020-2024

Retail automation market soaring to reach $23.58 billion by 2026

Drivers: need for enhanced business procedures and inventory management

Americans expect privacy controls

4 out of 5 people want a privacy law to protect personal data

75 % of millennials abandon in-store purchases

Zebra study: out-of-stocks drive shoppers to online

Spending on women's clothing to increase

Freedonia Focus Report forecasts rising demand for high-end items in the USA

Chance for new technologies in retail?

Schwarz Group to work more with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in the future

Five retailers are opening stores for every retailer closing stores

New report by IHL Group debunks the retail apocalypse narrative

British consumer behavior: ethical and Instagrammable

Report tracking spending across major consumer markets

Choosing the right marketplace for your business: A profitable niche product is key

"Platform strategies are critical for success," says Dr. Kai Hudetz of the IFH Cologne (Institute for Trade Research)

GfK study: Brick-and-mortar retail in the EU

Highest 2019 growth in Romania and Lithuania

Rural convenience stores

“Indispensable Hub” for thousands of isolated communities

Holiday shoppers crave engaging experiences from retailers

42 percent of consumers shop in-store for festive environment

Forecast 2020: Asia’s leading large format retailers

IGD expects sales growth of 3.3 percent a year

“Differentiation remains the key to growth”

Poundworld’s failure to differentiate from other discounters led to demise

Luxury department stores outperform the market

Investment to create destination appeal pays off

Private brands make a big comeback

Launch of the examining consumer and business insights in private brands

Stationary retail grows by 2.1 percent in 2018

GfK study on European retail

An easy way to reduce business operating costs

Climate protection is more than an environmental issue

Mountain and electric bicycles leading the pack

Cycling trends ahead of the 2018 Bicycle Leadership Conference

Amazon is now the UK’s fifth largest retailer

The online giant accounted for over four pounds in every 100 pounds spent on retail in 2017

Workwear and uniform manufacturers leverage e-commerce

UK consumers demand better, more detailed answers from brands

94 percent say personalised answers will make them more loyal – with 84 percent switching to competitors if responses disappoint, according to Eptica research

Serious violence against staff

New retail crime figures by the British Retail Consortium (BRC)

UK click & collect sales set to soar 55.6 percent to 2022

Click & collect continues to rise rapidly in the UK, outpacing growth in the online retail channel

Some glitter but no gold for Christmas

In December, UK retail sales increased by 0.6 percent on a like-for-like basis from December 2016

Toys "R" Us: "Our results for the quarter were disappointing"

The company reports results for third quarter 2017

Report shows not-so-smart holiday shopping habits

We're heavily inclined to make impulse purchases, but we aren't very likely to be as careful about what it is we're buying

Business model of Takko Fashion optimized for future growth

The smart discounter intends to expand its footprint, with more than one hundred new openings planned for the coming business year

Reducing food waste starts at the grocery store

New statistics show that making a difference might be easier than we think

Organized retail crime on the rise

Organized retail crime is continuing to grow, with 67 percent of retailers surveyed reporting an increase in the past year

Retail jobs jumped nearly 13,000 in November

Retail industry employment increased by an unusually high 12,900 jobs in November over October

Book sales bright for the holidays

Book sales are expected to grow 5 percent in the final weeks of the 2017 holiday shopping season after a flat 2016

Promotions just as important to UK customers as product quality

Study finds that promotions are a key factor in customers’ purchasing decisions when buying home and kitchen appliances

The chancellor needs to deliver a budget for shoppers

Business and consumers are looking to the Chancellor’s upcoming Budget for action to support consumer spending

Eye-catching labels stigmatize many healthy foods

Study finds that labels such as organic, fair-trade and cage free can impact consumer behavior

Online shoppers plan to spend more than in-store shoppers this holiday

The rivalry between online and traditional retail will heat up during the 2017 holiday season

"Mobile payment can fail due to lack of knowledge and enthusiasm of checkout personnel"

Interview with Professor Ludwig Hierl of the DHBW Heilbronn

Smart store technologies to generate over 78 billion dollars

Invisible payments & other connected technologies to boost retail revenues as omnichannel strategies move in-store

72 per cent of UK consumers frustrated by shopping

The figures show an improvement on last year’s measures

Dinner is served

Germans eat more fresh food than people in France