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The COVID-19 retail crisis sees online stores closing too

Governments across the world have ordered the closure of non-essential stores during the COVID-19 crisis, but many online retailers are unable to fulfil orders with a lack of back-end support and staff. Department store Fenwick announced this week it would close both its online and physical stores, the former due to being unable to pick online...

26 Mar 2020

Business

Virus-phobia boosting online retail sales in China

Fear of contracting the coronavirus has sent hundreds of millions of Chinese flocking to online working options, with schools, businesses, government departments, medical facilities -- even museums and zoos -- wrapping themselves in the digital cloud for protection. China remains in crisis mode weeks after the epidemic exploded, with much of...

12 Feb 2020

Retail INTERVIEW

How to create a personalized experience through digital retail

More often than not, omnichannel retail involves integrating technological features into a physical store environment to bring the ease of discovery and quick check-out from e-commerce into brick-and-mortar. But one company is bringing the human interactive component of physical retail into the digital sphere. Omnichannel tech solutions...

28 Jan 2020

Retail

Country report: e-commerce is booming in India but challenges persist

Not many international brands and retailers could afford to ignore India, the world’s most populous country with 1.37 billion people, second only to China, and catching up fast. Given that 41 percent of that enormous population is using the internet, that is a whopping 562 million people or potential customers. The e-commerce market is vast yet...

9 Dec 2019

Fashion

Zulily amps up e-commerce competition with price comparison tool

Zulily is positioning itself as a viable competitor to powerhouse digital retailers like Amazon and Walmart. The online retailer of clothing and lifestyle items has integrated its first-ever competitor price tool to its site to help its customers make purchase decisions. Zulily stated that 59 percent of online shoppers are doing more comparison...

7 Oct 2019

Retail INTERVIEW

Avail, the first Belgian e-commerce platform for Millennials and Gen Z

Avail, the first Belgian social e-commerce platform to bring fashion lovers and emerging brands closer together through micro-stores compiled by curators, was launched on Tuesday. FashionUnited spoke to Noëmie Haverhals, Avail’s CEO and a millennial, about the new generation of consumers, social selling and emerging brands. Emerging brands are...

19 Sep 2019

Retail

Over 90 percent of shoppers concerned about social media shopping

More than 90 percent of shoppers have concerns when it comes to shopping via social media, yet nearly one-third of them still use it as a shopping platform, new research reveals. Payment security (59 percent), the quality of goods (56 percent) safety of their personal details (55 percent) and buying a fake product (47 percent), topped the list...

19 Sep 2019

Fairs

How e-commerce is affecting tradeshows

E-commerce is the buzzword on the industry's lips right now, with so many brick-and-mortar stores closing and longstanding retail institutions, namely department stores, investing heavily into their e-commerce and digital operations. For independent retailers and small shops, trade shows have been a way to discover new brands outside of the...

26 Jul 2019

Retail

Instagram launches its own e-commerce account

Hot off of the announcement that influencers can selldirectly to their followers on Instagram, the photo-sharing platform is expanding with their own e-commerce curation of product suggestions. With its new account simply named “@shop,” Instagram will be sharing various fashion, beauty, and home brands to shop, according to an announcement from...

11 May 2019

Retail

American in-store shoppers would rather consult their phones than ask for assistance

As companies like Amazon experiment with unmanned stores, a new survey conducted by Kelton Global on behalf of discount platform RetailMeNot reveals the majority of Americans (69 percent) would rather search for product reviews on their phones while visiting a physical store than interact with a sales clerk. Similarly, over half (53 percent) of...

2 May 2019

Retail

UK online clothing sales continue to slow

March marked the fifth consecutive month of single digit online sales growth in the UK, growing just 3.7 percent compared to the same month last year, according to new data. The latest IMRG Capgemini eRetail Sales Index revealed that for the first three months of the year, revenue growth for clothing stood at 2.6 percent growth, significantly...

25 Apr 2019

Fashion

Online sales at Jigsaw soar by a third thanks to ship-from-store technology

Online transactions at Jigsaw have increased by 32 percent in 11 months following the British high street retailer's implementation of ship-from-store technology. Through partnering with omnichannel order management specialist OneStock, Jigsaw has unified its web and in-store inventory, meaning ecommerce orders can now be shipped directly from...

23 Apr 2019

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