Innovations across the retail space is the main theme for The Retail Week Technology and Ecommerce Summit that takes place this month. We’ve picked out a few ‘must see’ sessions surrounding multi-channel, payments and technology systems that would be worth an audience: • The Future is a Technology-Driven Retailer – on at 09:10 – 09:50…
Carphone Warehouse, the phone retailer, is going digital with its new look stores. The digital format will be seen across 200 of its 771 stores within the next few months. The digital design is said to create a simplified and slick customer experience through technology. Speaking at one of the revamped stores in London’s Brent…
Product information, price comparisons, social network reviews, e-vouchers, and payments. These are just some of the consumer-based offerings that smart phone and tablets can keep customers engaged with on behalf of retailers. With smartphones now an everyday item for most people, retailers are catching on to the fact that without mobile technology they are in…
Argos, the household goods retailer, is replacing the traditional with a digital alternative as it focuses on its place in the digital age. Over all it is investing £300 million to reinvent itself from an old-style catalogue-led to a modern digitally-led business. Part of its plan are small format digital stores, with the first recently…
Interactive tables aren’t in every customer-facing environment yet, but they are certainly becoming more popular among retail and hospitality businesses that are looking to take a more multi-channel approach. The tables are typically large touch screens that are wifi connected and they are displayed in busy footfall areas to provide added service to customers. This…