Taking stock of retail tech

Recent Posts

• Lush gives up on social media

  Clare McDonald - Business Editor 10 Apr 2019

Since the birth of social media platforms, brands have been carefully adapting their marketing strategies to reach the cool kids on whatever their chosen channel of choice. From MySpace, to ...

• Conversational commerce: small steps into the new retail frontier

  Clare McDonald - Business Editor 18 Dec 2018

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Jason Gregory, senior product manager at online retailer ASOS, discusses the growing popularity of conversational commerce - how consumers are increasingly ...

• Addicted to clicks? Would you try online retail rehab?

  Clare McDonald - Business Editor 19 Oct 2018

In early October 2018, fintech firm iZettle ran a rehab centre for online shopping addicts to show the impact e-commerce has on the highstreet. But will this change customer habits? Spoiler alert, ...

• Moby Mart – The “store of the future” or just a fun idea?

  Clare McDonald - Business Editor 15 Oct 2018

During a discussion at Tech by Retail Week in summer of 2018, the co-founders of the unmanned moving store Moby Mart talked about how they believe the “store of the future” will be solar powered, ...

• Everywoman in Retail Awards – an industry disrupted

  Clare McDonald - Business Editor 27 Sep 2018

Much like every other industry, retail is becoming consumed by technology adoption to the point where the two are no long separate sectors. “Every company is a technology company” is a phrase heard ...

• About the blog

  Clare McDonald - Business Editor 25 Sep 2018

This blog from Computer Weekly’s business editor, Clare McDonald, discusses the technology innovations that are evolving the retail sector, including the technology retailers are adopting, the ...