Tesco launches drone trial in Ireland
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Tesco has launched its trial of drone home deliveries this week, with shoppers in County Galway, Ireland, the first to test the service, according to the Irish Times.
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Instagram introducing shopping service to IGTV
Instagram has introduced its shopping service to its video sharing arm IGTV allowing customers to purchase items featured in videos without leaving the app.
IGTV users will now be able…
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Google allows retailers to list items in ‘Shopping’ tab for free in an effort to help accelerate recovery
Google is making it free for UK retailers to list their products on the ‘Shopping’ tab amid a range of new initiatives designed to help retailers accelerate recovery.
Retailers across…
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Augmented Reality shopping set to hit 100m users this year as COVID-19 accelerates adoption
Augmented reality (AR) shopping is set to see a dramatic rise in adoption thanks to the pandemic, topping 100 million users by the end of the year.
Gartner and GetApp’s…
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Surge in online shopping over lockdown thanks to 102% rise in online supermarket shops
Consumer spending grew 0.2 per cent year-on-year in the month of August, thanks to a 102.7 per cent year-on-year rise in online supermarket shops.
New data from Barclaycard found consumer…
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Ocado and Waitrose face backlog of online orders
Unprecedented levels of customers deciding to carry out their shop online instead of visiting the supermarket have left the UK’s online retailers backlogged with orders.
Ocado has been resorting to…
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Coronavirus drives US shoppers online
The outbreak of coronavirus is already affecting two key e-commerce metrics in the US.
As large tech firms begin to tell their staff to work from home and people choose…
Read MoreGoogle fight EU over €2.4bn fine for “abusing its dominance” in shopping search results
Google is set to launch an appeal against a €2.4 billion (£2 billion) fine after it was accused of abusing its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service.
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56% of Brits shopped drunk last year wracking up £29bn in sales
Drunk shopping accounted for £28.7 billion in sales in the UK in 2019, as more than half of Brits admit to shopping while under the influence.
Fifty-six per cent of…
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Samsung’s Whisk launches new app to simplify grocery shopping
UK-based food shopping app Whisk has launched the first multi-platform app of its kind to simplify grocery shopping.
Whisk was originally rejected at pitch level by Lord Alan Sugar after…
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When you think of Christmas shopping, what springs to mind? The first screening of the John Lewis ad? Maybe the frantic search for Black Friday bargains? Or is it the…