high street retail
Bottom falls out of online pants market but e-tail hits £3.8bn
News Online shopping continues to be a beacon of hope for retailers as high street sales stall. UK shoppers spent £3.8bn online last month - 16 per cent higher than in August last year, the latest figures... [22 Sep 2009]
Contactless payments hamstrung by battle for hearts and minds
News And while a handful of high-street names, including Boots, Coffee Republic and Pret A Manger, are already trialling or deploying contactless payment technology, the majority of retailers remain unmoved. [24 Jun 2009]
Knickers dropping as recession hits web retail
News During the same period, high street sales recorded growth of just 21 per cent, the Office for National Statistics found. While electricals and beer, wine and spirits sales have shown strong growth in... [09 Jun 2009]
Cash-strapped Brits rein in web shopping
News Overall, online shopping continues to outperform the high street - the analyst predicts web sales will grow by 13.3 per cent in 2009, to £20.9bn, while total retail sales will fall by... [03 Jun 2009]
Booze and knickers back on top in Brits' web shopping
News However, year-on-year growth for e-retail continues in stark contrast to the high street. While sales growth is static on the high street, online... [17 Mar 2009]
Credit crunch no match for January sales
News The question is whether bricks and clicks retailers [those on the high street and online] can prioritise this sufficiently above the defensive strategies needed to combat tough high... [17 Feb 2009]
How to save your career in the downturn
Comment The retail sector has been decimated by the current downturn and his company, The Pier, is one of those high street names to go into administration. John Bovill, group IT director at... [28 Jan 2009]
Web sales no match for worst December in 14 years
News According to new research from the British Retail Consortium (BRC), non-food non-store sales in December - the vast majority of which were made online - were up 30 per cent on the same period in 2007. [13 Jan 2009]
Bricks and clicks beat web-only retailers
News According to research by credit checking and information services company Experian, high street retailers with a web shopfront got 68 per cent more internet traffic than their online-only rivals during... [02 Jan 2009]
Pure-play e-tailers help consumers get happy online
News Specialist online retailers score much better in terms of customer satisfaction than big high street institutions when it comes to internet shopping.silicon.com Retail & Leisure... [22 Dec 2008]
Coffee Republic tastes another flavour of wave and pay
News The scheme will run for around three months in three London locations: Cabot Place in Canary Warf, Broadgate Exchange in Liverpool Street and Bluewater shopping centre. Coffee Republic has kicked off a pilot that will... [11 Dec 2008]
Legal Eye: Tech could brighten retailers' gloom
Comment It is anything but a season of goodwill on the UK high street. With consumers turning online in search for a bargain next year, so too can we expect to see retailers focus their procurement efforts on... [10 Dec 2008]
£980,000 shopping mega minute arrives for web retailers
News Despite continuing gloom on the high street, the UK online shopping industry is rubbing its hands together with glee - today is expected to be the biggest web shopping day of the year. Payment card... [08 Dec 2008]
Half of Thomas Cook bookings are on the web
News However, the thirst for web bookings isn't uniform among countries: the travel agent said 27 per cent of UK bookings were made over the web in the twelve months ending 30 September, while German customers were more inclined to use... [03 Dec 2008]
Online buyers take Xmas shopping to the wire
News Fair predicted the retail sector will have a hard time next year but online stores will have a better experience than high street sites. The danger is if shoppers wait too long, they... [03 Dec 2008]
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