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Over half of adults will interact with brands through digital and virtual channels as opposed to face to face after the pandemic according to research from Nuance.

Shoppers now prefer digital retail experiences to physical ones according to study

June 23, 2021

Over half of adults will interact with brands through digital and virtual channels as opposed to face to face after the pandemic according to research from Nuance. The study looked…

Amazon's highly anticipated Prime Day is expected to generate up $11 billion in sales over the weekend according to Adobe.

Amazon Prime Day spend expected to reach $11bn

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Amazon Prime Day

June 17, 2021

George Iddenden

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Amazon’s highly anticipated Prime Day is expected to generate up $11 billion in sales over the weekend according to Adobe. This would mean that Prime Day would rival Black Friday…

Cash usage plummeted 35 per cent last year as the pandemic drove “some marked changes in payments behaviour”.

Cash usage plummeted 35% last year as contactless and mobile payments skyrocket

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June 17, 2021

Ben Stevens

Cash usage plummeted 35 per cent last year as the pandemic drove “some marked changes in payments behaviour”. Physical cash was used to make 6.1 billion payments in the UK…

Shein has been accused of “deliberate and calculated” trademark infringement by a raft of both major and independent brands and is facing legal action.

Shein is being sued for “deliberate and calculated” trademark infringement

Ecommerce Industry

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June 14, 2021

Ben Stevens

Shein has been accused of “deliberate and calculated” trademark infringement by a raft of both major and independent brands and is facing legal action. AirWair International, the owner of Dr…

Supermarkets are missing massive deliveries of fresh produce which is being left to rot in containers due to an unprecedented shortage of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers.

Unprecedented HGV driver shortage a “crisis of national importance” as supermarkets lose tonnes of fresh produce

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Driver fresh goods Heavy Goods Vehicle HGV Shortage

June 10, 2021

Ben Stevens

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Supermarkets are missing massive deliveries of fresh produce which is being left to rot in containers due to an unprecedented shortage of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers. UK retailers are…

First lockdown saw 16,000 commence businesses created

75% of retail decision makers admit seismic shift towards ecommerce

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June 9, 2021

Ben Stevens

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The pandemic has driven a dramatic shift in strategy for retailers towards digital commerce and investment in new technologies. According to new research commissioned by JP Morgan and FreedomPay, which…

Online retail sales saw their largest drop in volumes ever recorded last month, falling nearly 10 per cent as consumer confidence returns to pre-lockdown levels.

Online sales volumes saw largest drop in history last month

June 9, 2021

Online retail sales saw their largest drop in volumes ever recorded last month, falling nearly 10 per cent as consumer confidence returns to pre-lockdown levels. UK online retail sales fell…

Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, Shopify and Boots are thought to have lost around £1 billion during yesterday’s global internet outages, leading MPs to call for new safeguards to be put in place.

‘The hour the internet broke’ cost retailers £1bn according to experts

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June 9, 2021

Ben Stevens

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Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, Shopify and Boots are thought to have lost around £1 billion during yesterday’s global internet outages, leading MPs to call for new safeguards to be put in…

Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, Ebay and PayPal are among the myriad of sites currently experiencing outages in a what is expected to be a major fault at a data centre provider.

Amazon, Ebay, Shopify, Etsy, PayPal all go down amid major global internet outages

Ecommerce Industry Security

Amazon Amazon Web Services AWS down Ebay Fastly Paypal Reddit Twitch Website

June 8, 2021

Ben Stevens

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Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, Ebay and PayPal are among the myriad of sites currently experiencing outages in a what is expected to be a major fault at a data centre provider.…

The UK retail sector’s recovery is being hampered by a lack of staff driving demand for trained workers to its highest level since 1988.

UK retail recovery is being hampered by staff shortages

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Brexit KPMG Retail Shortage staff

June 7, 2021

Ben Stevens

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The UK retail sector’s recovery is being hampered by a lack of staff driving demand for trained workers to its highest level since 1988. According to new data from KPMG…

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Shoppers now prefer digital retail experiences to physical ones according to study

Amazon Prime Day spend expected to reach $11bn

Cash usage plummeted 35% last year as contactless and mobile payments skyrocket

Shein is being sued for “deliberate and calculated” trademark infringement

Unprecedented HGV driver shortage a “crisis of national importance” as supermarkets lose tonnes of fresh produce

75% of retail decision makers admit seismic shift towards ecommerce

Online sales volumes saw largest drop in history last month

‘The hour the internet broke’ cost retailers £1bn according to experts

Amazon, Ebay, Shopify, Etsy, PayPal all go down amid major global internet outages

UK retail recovery is being hampered by staff shortages

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