The Co-op will install vending machines at Reading Festival over the upcoming bank holiday weekend selling chilled meals to festival-goers. Two vending machines will sell Co-op’s chilled meal deals and each will be stocked with over 400 items including sandwiches, crisps, healthy snacks, fruit, choc...

Alibaba’s quarterly profits and revenue have beaten analyst expectations leading to a boost in its shares. Revenue jumped 42 per cent to 114.92 billion yuan (£13.47 billion), coming above analyst expectations of 111.73 billion yuan (£13.09 billion), though this was slower than the 61 per cent growth...

Spotify is looking to raise its prices more than 10 per cent as it launches a trial in its home region to gauge customers’ response. Prices of Spotify’s family plan are to be raised about 13 per cent in Scandinavia, according to sources speaking to Bloomberg, as it tests the water for possible wider...

Walmart is planning to use blockchain technology to allow delivery drones to communicate, according to a new patent. Delivery drones will use blockchain technology to transmit information like their speed, height, route, loading capacity and battery information to other drones, according to a patent...

UK online retail spending hit its highest level in three years in July, helping boost overall retail sales and beating analyst estimates. Online sales rose 6.9 per cent throughout July, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), marking the biggest rise online spe...

Amazon will begin gifting unsold items to charity as part of a new donations programme dubbed Fulfillment by Amazon Donations. Charities will receive items from third party sellers who store their goods in Amazon’s fulfilment centres in the US and the UK, it said in a blogpost.   Donations will be t...

High street retailers are losing customers by not displaying their store stock levels online, according to new research. Cybertill’s latest study of 140 UK retailers with over 30 physical stores found that 61 per cent lack the technology to display information about in-store stock availability. A re...

Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast in partnership with Go Instore exploring the role of technology in retail.

Snapchat’s new augmented reality glasses will come fitted with dual cameras allowing them to capture 3D images. Spectacles 3, the social media giants third iteration of its augmented reality sunglasses, will go on sales in November this year on a dedicated ecommerce site Spectacles.com. Its latest v...

JD.com’s second quarter revenues have well outpaced analyst estimates despite fears the escalating trade war would dampen sales, sending shares skyrocketing. The Chinese ecommerce giant saw shares jump nearly 13 per cent after reporting a 23 per cent revenue rise to 150.28 billion yuan (£17.74 billi...