Asos launches beauty range
Asos is launching an online beauty range with over 100 brands and 6,000 products.Asos has unveiled its push into online beauty with the launch of a new campaign ‘Go play’. The campaign will encourage...
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In pictures: EE’s Showcase stores
Essential Retail visits EE’s newly designed store in Tottenham Court Road to see how the mobile phone retailer is using technology to create a new interactive store format.EE has unveiled four newly...
View ArticleComment: AI in the workplace
Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells and Alexandra Whittington, futurists at Fast Future, take a look at the leadership challenges of implementing AI in the workplace. Technological changes are defining today’s...
View ArticleReebok launches shoppable social media
Reebok has made its Instagram account shoppable by partnering with Curalate. Reebok has made its Instagram account shoppable. The fitness brand shares images of people working out on its Instagram...
View ArticleIMRG explains... marketing to online retailers (part 2)
IMRG's editor, Andy Mulcahy, takes a look at how to market to online retailers.
View ArticleThe retail industry’s payment security problem
Retail appears to be going backwards when it comes to payment security. Essential Retail explores where the industry is going wrong and how it can improve. This year’s Verizon Payment Security Report...
View ArticleTech-savvy Jo Harlow joins Sainsbury's as non-exec
Former Nokia and Microsoft manager to bring technology prowess to the Sainsbury's board.Sainsbury's has appointed Jo Harlow to its board as a non-executive director. Harlow spent 12 years working in...
View ArticleView from the Top: Future gazing with the boss of Holition
Essential Retail speaks with Jonathan Chippindale, CEO of Holition, to learn how luxury brands are using technology to modernise and engage with customers.Former marketing director at De Beers and...
View ArticleComment: Does the next industrial revolution spell the end of manufacturing...
Jeff Morgan, manufacturing research engineering at Trinity College Dublin takes a look at whether robots will lead to mass unemployment.Robots have been taking our jobs since the 1960s. So why are...
View ArticleOne Stop appoints Mark Denton as head of IT
One Stop Store poaches former retail boss at Aptos to the role of head of IT. One Stop Stores has appointed Mark Denton to the head of IT and retail technology. According to a post on Denton's LinkedIn...
View ArticleOver 80% of retailers will become media companies, claims research
81% of European retailers believe they will become media companies as they attempt to target consumers through video content. More and more retailers and brands are following in the footsteps of...
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Helping retailers make the customer journey as smooth and painless as possible
Business Reporter takes a look at how technology innovation is helping to improve customer retail journeys. The retail industry is undergoing a digital revolution. We are slowly seeing retailers...
View ArticleJLab's first start-up Localz raises £3.6M
The first start-up to win John Lewis’ JLab competition in 2014 goes on to receive £3.6 million in funding from Notion Capital.Localz has secured £3.6 million in investment from Notion Capital to help...
View ArticleLuxury retailers sign up to shopping bag courier service
Luxury retailers on London’s Bond Street are offering a store-to-door delivery service to relieve customers of the task of carrying their bags home.A number of retailers situated on Bond Street in the...
View ArticleComment: Human voices are unique – but our study shows we’re not that good at...
Carolyn McGettigan, professor in psychology at Royal Holloway, and Nadine Lavan, postdoctoral research associate at Brunel University London, looks at voice recognition and how we are not very good at...
View ArticleWhittard of Chelsea’s journey to China
Essential Retail chats to Whittard of Chelsea’s MD, Mark Dunhill, to learn about the brand’s move online into China and how it plans to soon open stores in the region.It’s been a little over a year...
View ArticleSunglasses Hut: Framing problems with AI
Essential Retail takes a look at how Sunglass Hut uses AI to find its online vision.How do you take the personal experience of being in store – where you have shop assistants to act as ‘browser...
View ArticleComment: Is M&S losing its retail crown to Asos?
Mike Lewis, head of the property dispute resolution team at SA Law, takes a look at whether the high street is dead and if M&S will soon have to bow down to eCommerce giants like Asos.Times have...
View ArticleFive retailers and brands shaking up their supply chain tech
Retailer investment in supply chain technology continues to be buoyant as the industry gets to grips with the cost to serve shoppers across channels.Supply chain planning solutions provider JDA...
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Body Shop gains activism support with mobile wallet
Body Shop is using a bespoke mobile wallet pass to gain support for its online activism.The Body Shop has created a bespoke mobile wallet pass with Urban Airship to create support for its ‘Forever...
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