high street retail
Borders books becomes a podcaster
News Bookseller Borders has launched an audio podcast series in an attempt to compete with the digital retailers such as Amazon and high street rivals such as Waterstones who are also ramping up their online... [05 Aug 2008]
Internet betting a dead cert for William Hill
News Betting chain William Hill has reported half-year earnings showing its online growth outstripping the rise in its high street earnings more than four-fold.silicon.com Retail & Leisure... [01 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News The rationale behind the system is to provide benefits for high street retailers, packaged goods suppliers and shoppers. The retail offering, called ShoppingTrip360, focuses on a... [01 Aug 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the year, a landmark milestone that analysts believe will make the channel a critical business for many high-street... [18 Jul 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo Fujitsu retail technology serves around 80 retailers and 16,000 stores across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the company demonstrated some of the tech we could see on the high... [04 Jun 2008]
Woolworths slashes costs with supply chain tech
Case Study High street retailer Woolworths has streamlined its distribution with supply chain management (SCM) software from long established partner SAP. Woolworths was SAP's first UK customer back in 1989 and has... [02 Jun 2008]
iPhone out of stock after £100 price cut
News Meanwhile, Carphone Warehouse - the only other retail outlet for the iPhone in the UK - confirmed it has sold out of 8GB and 16GB iPhones in its high street shops. The mobile operator,... [02 May 2008]
Retail leaders will open up in tough times
Comment An icy wind is blowing through the high street. Panellists Simon Burke, executive chairman of Irish grocer Superquinn, and Fat Face chairman Alan Giles bravely championed the high... [13 Mar 2008]
Card fraud up by a quarter to £535m
News In a statement, an Apacs spokeswoman said: "Although card fraud levels have now begun to go up again due to fraud abroad and card-not-present fraud losses, chip and PIN has proved to be an undoubted success in reducing card fraud on the... [12 Mar 2008]
Paperchase installs the dream accounting system
News High street stationary chain Paperchase is swapping out its existing accounts system as it prepares to expand in the UK and overseas. The company will be ditching its existing accounting system Opera II... [03 Mar 2008]
Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping
Photo This is the Discover section of Nokia's new store on Regent Street in London which opened its doors in February. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas silicon.com took a look at what shopping in the future might be like at the... [28 Feb 2008]
Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 gets cautious welcome
News Alastair Behenna, CIO at recruitment company Harvey Nash, called it an "interesting release" but said the jury is still out, while Mike Roberts, IT director at private Harley Street doctors The London Clinic, said his... [28 Feb 2008]
William Hill profits hit by online problems
News Technical difficulties with a new online platform wiped £10.6m from the operating profit of high street betting chain William Hill's interactive channel for the year ended 1 January 2008. In a statement,... [27 Feb 2008]
Online shopping up by 75 per cent
News Anthoula Madden, head of Capgemini's UK consumer products and retail team, said online growth is happening despite sluggish sales on the high street, with bricks retailing revenues... [22 Feb 2008]
Domino's online sales heat up
News That growth outstrips average high-street internet sales, which are running at 15 per cent. Takeaway chain Domino's Pizza has reported further expansion of its internet business in its year-end... [20 Feb 2008]
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