Which new technologies for online and offline retail are there? EuroCIS, the "Leading Trade Fair for Retail Technology" shows it. You too can get an insight into how the store of tomorrow could look in the video.
With the holiday season over, import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to slowly decline through the first quarter of the year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has reaffirmed the supermarket industry’s strong support for legislation (H.R. 2017). Introduced by Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), that is being marked up by the ...
Elastic Path Software has published the second volume in its ebook series entitled “The Future of Commerce: Critical Commerce Conversations To Have Today With Your C-Suite.” Part of a series on experience-driven commerce, the new ...
EuroShop 2014 in Düsseldorf was a success across the board. All records were broken: 109,496 visitors from some 100 countries travelled to the Rhine to gather information on all facets, innovations and trends in the global retail world from the ...
Despite its recent dip in trading, 51 percent of UK manufacturers ranked Asda as the overall top retailer, based on key criteria such as clearest strategy and best buying team, in the 2015 UK PoweRanking study launched today by the retail and ...
Now in its ninth year the World Retail Hall of Fame has honoured founders of some of the retail world’s most iconic brands, and this year is no different. The World Retail Congress’s Advisory Board, the Grand Jury for the World ...
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 3.6 percent this month over the same time last year as retailers begin to bring in merchandise for the holiday season, according to the monthly Global ...
Stark warnings were voiced at the latest Gartner UK Supply Chain Conference. Analysis from the event shows that a majority (66%) of retailers are seeing returns increasing, but one in three do not have the capability to track them. ...
Ross Stores announced the opening of 19 Ross Dress for Less ("Ross") and 8 dd's Discounts stores across 15 different states in July. These new locations are part of the off-price retailer's 2015 expansion plans to add a total ...
Planet Retail sees the latest quarterly like-for-like declines at Sainsbury’s as a sign the company is beginning to feel the pain of Tesco’s domestic recovery. With little or no growth available in the market, one company’s gains ...
Despite the hype around e-commerce and online shopping, consumers still look to shop in the physical store. To help retailers better understand customer preferences, TimeTrade, the leading provider of online appointment scheduling, surveyed ...
May 15 saw the closing day of the inaugural edition of C-star, Shanghai's International Trade Fair for Solutions and Trends all about Retail. On May 13-15 retail professionals from all around the world came to the Shanghai New ...
Shazam offers a highly innovative service where it tracks music and most recently TV shows via the audio recognition functionality, allowing users to directly link out to purchase the song or episode. The technology fills users with joy when they ...
Multi-channel challenges and the threat of hard discounters has driven up the use of management consultants in UK retail. The retail sector’s increasing use of consultants was one of the fastest in 2014 - up 9.7 per cent to ...
Moving Tactics, a leading South African digital signage solutions company, has recently launched Moving Tactics Retail Analytics, a division focused on the gathering of data from brick-and-mortar retail environments through the use of a variety of ...
The Asian retail industry needs to drive continuous innovation in order to ensure it caters to the needs of tech savvy consumers in the region and stays ahead of global competition, according to speakers at the Retail Congress Asia Pacific this ...
Jules and Jim Cocktail and Bottle Shoppe led by Rob Pietroforte and Jesse Jahr from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has won the 2015 Edens Retail Challenge, a nationwide university student competition seeking the most compelling ...
Scandit’s mobile Order Entry solution is designed to enable retailers to quickly and easily place orders using their smartphones and is available as part of Scandit’s Mobile App Suite for Retail, a complete set of ...
In today’s retail environment disruption abounds. Shoppers demand commerce on their terms, value has become increasingly personalized and contextualized, and multichannel commerce realities are challenging traditional retail profit ...
The IWD, specialist for retail market research, is expanding further. In the future the company offers its services with respect to the topic of POS customer surveys and mystery shopping also in Spain and Portugal. By these two new locations in ...
In the old days, it was the market square; today's generation of elderly people likes to have a chat at the café integrated into the supermarket. Stationary retail is facing the challenge of a rapidly aging society. Veit Gregor Lange and ...
The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) has agreed with global commercial real estate advisor JLL to be the launch sponsor for their European diversity initiative. JLL will support and assist ICSC as they expand their current ...
Swedish multinational fashion chain H&M was named ‘International Retailer’ of the year, at the World Retail Awards gala dinner in Paris last night. Fast Retailing, the Japanese retail group behind brands such as UNIQLO, Comptoir ...
COMEXPOSIUM Group has announced the launch of the first Paris Retail Week, to be held from 21 to 23 September 2015 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. The first Paris Retail Week will bring together on a single site E-Commerce Paris, Europe's ...
The National Retail Federation lowered its retail sales forecast for 2014 because of slow growth recorded during the first half of the year, but said sales are expected to grow significantly faster over the next five months. NRF forecasted in ...
Tlantic – a multinational company specialising in the development of technology solutions for retailers – is one of the finalists at the World Retail Awards 2014, an event which since 2007 has awarded prizes to projects which recognise ...
Since its launch in 2007, the World Retail Congress has become the annual platform for thousands of retail industry directors from over 50 countries to come together at the highest level to discuss and point the way forward on global critical ...
The "Retailer Awards 2014" were presented at the twelfth international ECE Retail Meeting. Deichmann received the award for "Best Performance", Uniqlo for "Newcomer of the Year", and Hunkemöller was presented the ...
Over the next 10 years, online retail will continue to gain popularity in both developed and emerging markets and as a result, logistics companies are set to play a key role in providing vital supply chain management solutions that are able to ...
Import volume at major U.S. container ports is expected to increase 7.5 percent in June as retailers bring unusually high quantities of merchandise into the country early to avoid any potential disruptions after the labor contract with West Coast ...
The playing field in the grocery space has gotten even more competitive - retailers in the dollar, drug and mass channels are flooding shoppers with offers to draw shoppers away from traditional grocers for key food events, weekly stock-up trips, as ...
Online sales of Non-Food products in the UK grew 11.2 per cent in April versus a year earlier. In April 2013, they had increased by 6.3 per cent over the previous year. In April, online sales represented 16.1% of total Non-Food sales of our ...
Imported products sold in the United States from clothing to cars contain far more U.S. parts or other content and value and support significantly more American jobs than consumers or policymakers realize, according to a new report prepared for the ...
FSP, the UK’s leading retail consultancy, has signed a new framework agreement with leading global real estate fund manager, M&G Real Estate, to provide regular bespoke retail research, to help shape the organisation’s in-town and ...
The forthcoming Journal of Consumer Research study reveals that consumers who get the brush-off at a high-end retailer can become more willing to purchase and wear pricey togs. "It appears that snobbiness might actually be a ...
The latest figures from Ipsos Retail Performance show an improvement to average weekly shopper numbers in March. The Retail Traffic Index, which measures the number of shoppers entering over 4000 non-food retail stores across the UK, rose by ...
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has welcomed a significant vote by MEPs in the European Parliament for a comprehensive overhaul of the European payments market. The European Parliament has sent a clear message that the time for reform has ...
Nearly one in five shoppers (19%) say they will be better off in the year ahead, which is the highest level since January 2011, when only 10% felt this way. That’s according to research published today (Tuesday) by IGD ShopperVista, which ...
More than 600 global leaders from the retail industry are gathering in Singapore for the World Retail Congress Asia Pacific 2014. Over the course of the Congress they will exchange knowledge, tackle issues faced by the industry and understand global ...
A new study designed to help large, organized retailers determine where and how to best enter Sub-Saharan Africa’s rapidly growing retail sector is published by A.T. Kearney, a leading global strategy consultancy firm, today. Rwanda, ...
The global retail industry is currently facing some of the biggest challenges in decades. Radical changes in consumer buying behavior, rapid technological change, which enormously influences both the internal processes in companies as well as the ...
The National Retail Federation today issued the following statements from NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay and Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz on the November jobs report: “Today’s solid jobs report is welcome news that the economy ...
Retailers can now access a vast selection of retail e-learning courses from a range of experts across the globe. The Retail Development Academy launches today and features a vast library of e-learning courses, mastery test and career learning ...
For the first time since 2002, Thanksgiving falls as late as the calendar possibly allows it to, but eager holiday shoppers are already mapping their shopping strategies for the big weekend. According to a preliminary Thanksgiving weekend ...
New to Sub-Saharan Africa and created in response to the rapidly changing and diversifying marketplaces across the Continent, the World Retail Congress Africa goes to the heart of the retail opportunity: servicing and understanding the new African ...
Footfall in non-food stores across high streets, shopping centres, retail parks and transport hubs rose by 1.7% in April over March, but suffered a decline of 8.7% year-on-year according to figures released by Ipsos in its latest Retail Traffic ...
Build-A-Bear Workshop, the interactive entertainment retailer of customized stuffed animals, announced today that it plans to continue expanding its new award-winning store design in 2013. The newly designed stores received rave reviews when ...
