Could the direct-to-consumer boom kill retail?
Social media is posing a significant threat to retailers as increasing numbers of manufacturers use online platforms to bypass them and sell directly to the consumer.
Set to be worth…
Amazon and Ebay blasted for selling banned toys
Ebay and Amazon have been slammed by Which? for continually failing to remove toys declared unsafe by EU safety regulators.
In the consumer watchdog’s latest attack on the dominant online…
AR & VR to add £62.5bn to UK economy by 2030
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies are “finally coming of age and have the potential to provide a significant boost to the UK economy”.
According to a new…
Black Friday starts tomorrow according to Ebay
Black Friday starts tomorrow according to a new report from Ebay which suggests shoppers start actively searching for bargains nine days before the event.
Ebay Advertising says that in 2018…
UK’s biggest supermarkets to ban black plastic by end of 2019
Black plastic will be entirely removed from the shelves of Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Asda by the end of the year.
Morrisons announced last week that it had banned all…
Black Friday 2019 to see slowest growth on record “and may potentially even be completely flat”
Black Friday and Christmas trading peaks are unlikely to save online retail sales for the year coming significantly below expectations.
IMRG predicted at the start of 2019 that the online…
Royal Mail union “extremely angry and bitterly disappointed” as strike blocked by High Court
Royal Mail has successfully blocked workers from lawfully holding a strike over the Christmas shopping period which posed a “major threat to UK retail”.
The High Court ruled yesterday that…
Alibaba’s Singles Day made more than Black Friday in 1 hour, here’s what the experts say
This year’s Singles Day shopping event has now come to a close, once again blitzing records to see over $38 billion (£29.6 billion) sold across Alibaba’s platforms in 24-hours.
The…
Royal Mail seeks to block Black Friday postal strike with injunction
Royal Mail is seeking to use an injunction to block a proposed postal strike over the crucial Christmas period, potentially leaving millions of packages undelivered for weeks.
The High Court…
Retailers vie for extended Black Friday sales boom
Boots has joined Amazon in launching early Black Friday sales, as UK retailers look to cash-in on the US trend for extending the promotional sales period.
While Black Friday will…