Australia’s largest supermarket Woolworths is launching a new app which will allow suppliers to track the performance of their products in stores. Woolworth’s has launched the Compass app, which calculates daily sales targets for each product, sending alerts to suppliers when they fail to be met. Th...

John Lewis has become the latest retailer to integrate augmented reality (AR) into its retail app, allowing users to “try on” over 300 brands of lipstick. The department store has launched a new “Try On” feature, which will transport the shopper to a live selfie screen where hundreds of different sh...

Tesla has reported a dramatic drop in profits for the first quarter of 2019, adding that it doesn’t expect to return to profit until the third quarter. For the first three months of the year the electric car retailer reported a loss of $702 million (£545 million), well below analyst expectations fol...

Natwest has officially launched its biometric debit card in the UK, starting a trial which could spell the end for traditional PIN codes altogether. Today Natwest has officially launched its biometric card trail, in which 200 customers will be issued the new cards equipped with a fingerprint sensor....

Apple is being sued for $1 billion (£770 million) by a New York student who has accused the retailer of using facial recognition technology to arrest the wrong person. Ousmane Bah is suing the retailer after he was identified by Apple as a robber who had committed theft in numerous Apple stores acro...

JD.com has officially launched its blockchain open platform service platform JD Chain, giving third party retailers access to its leading technologies. Companies using JD Chain will be now be able to build their own solutions from the ground up, without relying on pre-built APIs. Alongside its launc...

Amazon has finally launched its Key for Garage service, allowing deliveries to be made to customers’ garages, nearly four months after first being announced. This follows the launch of Amazon’s wider Key service in 2017, which allows Amazon’s delivery staff to enter their homes and later cars while...

Ebay has raised its full year profit forecasts after posting a jump in revenues for its first quarter results, as its activist investors continue to make changes. In the quarter ending March 31, Ebay reported a net revenue rise of 2.4 per cent to $2.64 billion (£2.04 billion) coming comfortably abov...

Google’s owner Alphabet has reached a “pivotal” milestone and become the first company to secure approval from the US authorities to begin making drone deliveries. Wing Aviation, the tech behemoth’s drone subsidiary, has secured approval from the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and the Departmen...

Some of the UK’s biggest retailers including Tesco and Sainsbury’s have been accused of filming shoppers without their knowledge of permission, potentially breaching data protection laws. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is examining the claims made by The Daily Mail regarding retail behav...