Retail Systems

Morrisons to offer online shopping

Morrisons has agreed a deal with Ocado that will enable it to launch an online grocery service by January 2014

Asda to trial scan as you shop mobile app

Asda shoppers will be able to scan their groceries with a smartphone application that will help the grocer cut costs and gather customer data. The supermarket giant will begin testing the app later this year, allowing customers to scan their shopping as they fill their trolleys

E-commerce spending up in April

Latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index reveal a 16 per cent year-on-year rise on spending in April

Country Attire launches new website

Online fashion retailer, Country Attire, has undergone a rebrand and unveiled a new website

Halfords select LANDesk solutions

Halfords is now using LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 and LANDesk Patch Manager to manage its IT Support Centre environment

Play.com partners with ChannelAdvisor

ChannelAdvisor has announced a partnership with the UK’s third largest online marketplace, Rakuten Play.com

IKEA BUSINESS launch loyalty programme

Ikano is to work in association with IKEA BUSINESS London, the business outfitting arm of the retail furnishings giant, to handle its new loyalty programme

Rakuten.com Shopping selects ReD Shield

Rakuten.com Shopping formerly Buy.com has signed a five-year agreement for ReD’s real-time fraud prevention service, ReD Shield

Fragrance Shop installs Postcode Anywhere

The Fragrance Shop has reduced cart abandonment by at least 10 per cent after installing address validation on their e-commerce site

Food chain pod launches online ordering

pod, the award-winning healthy, fast-food chain based in London, has launched a brand new delivery service using an online ordering solution

HP and Very.co.uk launch augmented reality ad

HP Autonomy today (Tuesday) announced a new augmented reality (AR) media campaign with online retailer Very.co.uk

schuh offer customers free in-store Wi-Fi

schuh, the High Street footwear retailer, has announced it is to offer free WiFi in its stores as a way of better engaging with customers

ghd sees iPad visits double year-on-year

ghd, the UK hair-straightening brand, has seen its customer conversion rates soar as a result of improving the shopping experience on mobile devices

Thomas Pink increases conversion with Fits.me

With clothes sizing varying from retailer to retailer, one in four garments bought online is returned because it doesn’t fit

SEONext wins trade mark battle with Next

Manchester-based search engine optimisation company, SEONext, has won a trade mark registration battle against High Street giant, Next

IKEA plugs US store into solar energy

IKEA has officially plugged-in the solar energy system installed at its store in Stoughton, Massachusetts, USA

Sainsbury's to take full control of bank

Sainsbury's confirmed that it will take control of Sainsbury's Bank by buying the 50 per cent held by partner Lloyds Banking Group

C&A ramps up RFID project with Checkpoint

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. is scaling up its Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) project with leading apparel retailer C&A from five to 25 stores

Joules train staff with First Friday

Retail training and development specialist First Friday has completed a systems training programme with apparel retailer Joules

M&S roll-out contactless to 644 stores

Marks & Spencer has now completed the roll-out of contactless payment to 644 of its UK stores, including its railway and airport franchise stores

SPAR Austria deploy ad screens at PoS

SPAR, one of Austria’s most important grocers, has decided in favour of a standardised media concept for digital customer approach in its markets

Study says Facebook Login boosts checkout

Facebook Login integration is twice as popular with European online retailers than their US counterparts, reveals the ‘Login to Boost Checkouts’ study by Betapond

Scoffs select Intelligent Business Systems' EPoS

Scoffs, a new food-to-go concept, commissioned Intelligent Business Systems to provide an EPoS solution for its roll-out over the next two years

Book holidays via mobile with Superbreak

Superbreak has partnered with Usablenet to develop a targeted mobile strategy that makes travel truly mobile for its customers

SecureTrading power payments for Hachette UK

Hachette UK, the leading book publishing group in the UK, has chosen SecureTrading to provide secure online payments

Lane Crawford selects Rakuten LinkShare

Lane Crawford has partnered with cost per acquisition network Rakuten LinkShare to engage new customers on its global site, lanecrawford.com