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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Ocado ramps up quick commerce push as it starts rolling out same day delivery slots in UK

Ocado is launching same day delivery slots in select UK areas. In an email to customers, the online grocery retailer said: “You can now order with your morning cuppa and we’ll deliver before dinner.” It added: “It’s perfect for when you’ve run out of milk. Oh, and you forgot to get the tinned tomatoes for […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Checkout free stores demonstrate good technology but bad value equation as Amazon and Aldi exit UK

In September of last year, we reported that Amazon was binning its ambitious Amazon Fresh experiment in the UK, just four years after the US online giant launched its first grocery store in London. It has shuttered its 19 Fresh stores, with plans to convert five of these into Whole Foods Market locations. The first […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Royal Mail puts parcel lockers outside Tesco stores

The Royal Mail has launched a parcel locker trial at some Tesco stores, allowing customers to collect, send and return parcels at any time. The six-month trial will see lockers installed outside shops, with the first of them now available at: Ashby-de-la-Zouch Barrow Burnham-on-Sea Bury… This story continues at Royal Mail puts parcel lockers outside […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Sainsbury’s announces job cuts amid move to maximise power of its data and retail technology

Sainsbury’s has announced plans to restructure its technology team and Argos delivery network, with the aim of creating more separation between the two businesses. The move will involve the UK grocery giant cutting 300 head office jobs, most of which will be in technology and data, where it its “consolidating routine reporting tasks” and creating […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Tesco store expansion plans includes former Amazon Fresh sites

Tesco, has outlined its store growth ambitions for 2026, saying it is on track to deliver over 70 more Tesco Express stores before March 2027. The supermarket’s growth has been boosted by the acquisition of five former Amazon Fresh stores in London. These sites in… This story continues at Tesco store expansion plans includes former […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Tesco reports highest market share in a decade amid strong Christmas sales

It its Q3 and Christmas Trading Statement 2025/26, Tesco has reported its highest market share for over a decade, driven by investments across the shopping trip. The retailer outperformed the market on both value and volume basis. Standout performance was reported in fresh food, with… This story continues at Tesco reports highest market share in […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Milestone for Amazon Just Walk Out: last week’s biggest technology plays at a glance

RTIH rounds up the stand out retail technology deals, launches, deployments and pilots from the past seven days. Including AWS, Ocado Group, Currys, Stripe, Pennies, Tesco, Mistral AI, Asos, Sierra, Represent, Dema, Carrefour Belgium, and Reckon.ai. AWS A new Amazon Just Walk Out technology powered store has gone live at Loyola University New Orleans in […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Gopuff enlists Rick Ross and Wiz Khalifa for rapid delivery of New Year’s Eve party essentials

Gopuff is teaming up with hip hop big hitters Rick Ross and Wiz Khalifa to ensure New Year’s Eve parties across the US are fully stocked. On December 31st, Ross becomes Gopuff’s “Chief Delivery Boss” and calls Khalifa for backup, bringing rapid delivery of Luc Belaire bubbly and McQueen and the Violet Fog Gin (for […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Booming Boxing Day business for UK physical retailers as they finish 2025 on positive note

Footfall data from retail technology specialist MRI Software shows strong performance for UK retail destinations on Boxing Day with footfall up +4.4% year on year across the board; the strongest increase seen in over ten years. Boxing Day has evolved over recent years, with the likes of Primark launching early discounts ahead of Christmas, while […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Former Waitrose Managing Director James Bailey set to take on CEO role at Pets at Home

Pets at Home Group has announced the appointment of James Bailey as Chief Executive Officer with effect from 30th March 2026. He was most recently Managing Director at Waitrose, a position he held for over five years from April 2020. During his tenure, he presided over the relaunch of Waitrose.com after the company moved off […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

JD Sports Fashion puts finishing touches to head office based retail tech innovation centre

JD Sports Fashion has completed work on a new technology innovation centre situated at its head office. In a LinkedIn post, Matthew Amer, Head of IT Testing Services at JD Sports Fashion, said: “The final finishing touches to the JD Sports Head Office Technology Innovation Centre were completed on 19th December with the installation of […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

River Island picks Tryzens as digital partner for Shopify platform migration

UK fashion retailer River Island is migrating to Shopify with the latter’s partner Tryzens Global. Phase one of the project focuses on international operations, with Shopify at the core, with the aim of reducing complexity and unlocking growth quickly. In a LinkedIn post, Deann Evans, Managing Director EMEA at Shopify, said: “Shopify + Tryzens is […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Dutch supermarket chain PLUS places Pricer ESLS order with 2026 start date

Dutch co-operative supermarket chain PLUS has signed an approximately 140 MSEK agreement with Pricer to upgrade 265 of the retailer’s stores with new electronic shelf labels (ESL). The roll-out is planned for 100 stores during 2026 and 165 during 2027. Since an agreement was agreed in 2020, it has equipped 440 locations with Pricer’s solution based […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Waitrose inks Glory deal with focus on retailer’s back office cash management processes

Glory reports that Waitrose has selected the company’s CI-100X solution to streamline and improve its back office cash management process in its stores across the UK. Glory is installing 285 CI-100X back office cash recycling devices in the UK grocery retailer’s stores with the roll-out now underway.  Mark McCallum, Senior Vice President EMEA, Managing Director […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Aston Banks says farewell Aldi UK and takes on Digital Transformation Director position at Primark

Primark has appointed Aston Banks as Digital Transformation Director. He joins from Aldi UK where he spent just over 11 years and most recently served as International Director of Customer Experience. In a LinkedIn post, he said: “I have just finished my first week in my new role as Digital Transformation Director at Primark. I […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Evri announces recruitment drive as BBC Panorama goes undercover at parcel delivery firm

UK parcel delivery firm, Evri Group, has announced a recruitment drive of 2,500 roles nationwide in the wake of a merger with DHL eCommerce UK, and acquisitions of Coll-8 and UK Mail. This comes amid parcel volumes increasing 12% to 425 million in its record half year results for the 26 weeks ended 30th August […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Uber Eats and Starship Technologies team up to bring robot deliveries to people of Leeds

Uber Eats and Starship Technologies are launching autonomous robot deliveries in Leeds. A fleet of green robots will help to deliver winter warmer meals and festive essentials for locals in the Headingley, Burley and Hyde Park areas of the city in December and beyond.  “It’s brilliant to see autonomous innovation supporting one of our busiest […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

GTT announces partnership to accelerate Jysk digital transformation and international expansion push

GTT Communications, a networking and security as a service provider, has announced a partnership with home furnishing retailer Jysk. This is pitched as an essential step in Jysk’s digital transformation, creating a high performance network built on GTT’s global tier 1 backbone and WAN capabilities. The solution combines ethernet and cloud connect services with the aim of […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

TALA Founder Grace Beverley set to headline at Retail Technology Show 2026 during April

Grace Beverley has been confirmed to headline at Retail Technology Show 2026, which will take place on 22nd and 23rd April at London’s ExCeL.  Founder of activewear brand TALA, fitness tech firm Shreddy, and personal organisation specialist The Productivity Method and Co-founder of AI company Retrograde, Beverley has a global following of over three million people. […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Biomaterial firm UNCAGED Innovations announces tie up with actor/producer Natalie Portman

UNCAGED Innovations, a biomaterial startup focused on creating a sustainable leather alternative from grains, has announced a partnership with actor and producer Natalie Portman. Financial terms of the tie up were not disclosed. Portman, an advocate for animal welfare and ethical consumerism, will work with the company to promote the adoption of sustainable, animal free […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Director of Technology Ross Hompstead exits Asos after NI Tech Hub and Topshop initiatives

Ross Hompstead has left Asos, where he spent the last four years, joining as Site Lead Northern Ireland Tech Hub, before becoming Director of Technology. In a LinkedIn post, he said: “After four incredible years that have shaped me for the better as a leader, my time at Asos is drawing to a close. It’s […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

foodora makes history in Czech Republic with Starship robot deliveries pilot including McDonald’s

foodora, an online food delivery brand owned by Delivery Hero, has notched up a first in Czechia with Starship Technologies. The pair have started testing robot delivery in the streets of District 8 of Prague, with McDonald’s onboard as a partner. In a LinkedIn post, foodora said: “Backed by Starship’s global expertise and the support […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Focus on immersive stories as Puma opens flagship European store on London’s Oxford Street

Puma has opened the doors to its largest ever European flagship store, situated on Oxford Street in London. Focusing on immersive story telling, the store, located close to Selfridges and Bond Street Tube Station, spans 24,000 square feet and features Puma’s running technology NITRO, its football boots FUTURE, ULTRA and KING, as well as its […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Shopify online merchants ring up a record breaking $6.2 billion in total sales on Black Friday

Shopify merchants achieved a record breaking $6.2 billion in total sales on Friday, up 25% from last year (22% on a constant currency basis). Consumer spending surged at 12:01 PM EST, when sales peaked at $5.1 million per minute. The average cart price at checkout was $117.93. The top product categories by order volume were cosmetics, clothing tops, activewear, fitness and nutrition. Top trending products […]
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RetailNext: the era of the impulse holiday spree is ending as Black Friday in-store traffic drops across USA

Black Friday in-store traffic was down -3.6% across the USA, according to RetailNext, a specialist in retail intelligence and traffic analytics that works with the likes of Burberry, Bloomingdale’s, Disney Store, Macy’s, and Estée Lauder. Its research is based on data collected at tens of thousands of US stores across hundreds of brands operating on […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Level 2.5 autonomy: Amazon Just Walk Out tech isn’t dead. It’s just finally acting its age

In September, we reported that Amazon was binning its ambitious Just Walk Out technology powered Amazon Fresh experiment in the UK, just four years after the US online giant launched its first grocery store in London. It is set to shutter its 19 Fresh stores, with plans to convert five of these into Whole Foods […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Primark launches proof of concept for cash and card payments self-checkouts at its York store

Primark has gone live with a proof of concept for self-checkouts that accept both cash and card payments at its store in York. The retailer started to roll-out self-checkouts across its stores in 2022. But while some shoppers welcomed the quicker and easier process, others were unhappy about the limited number of traditional tills and […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Dick’s Lifts Guidance as Foot Locker Turnaround Begins

This article first appeared in our sister publication, Shop Eat Surf Outdoor (SESO) Dick’s Sporting Goods raised its full-year guidance after a strong third-quarter performance, even as it begins the task of turning around its newly acquired Foot Locker business. Senior executives detailed plans to overhaul the struggling footwear retailer, which will include closing underperforming stores […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Lush works with Talon.One on launch of ‘truly omnichannel’ app-based rewards programme

British cosmetics retailer Lush has gone live with a new rewards club offering. It worked with Talon.One to bring this to market. Customers can download its app, earn points when they shop with Lush and unlock rewards. They will also get first access to shop new product launches on the app. It will also be […]
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Arsenal Football Club inks payments partner deal with buy now pay later specialist Zilch

Zilch has announced a multi-year global agreement with Premier League giants Arsenal. Financial terms of the tie up have not been disclosed. The buy now pay later firm’s first foray into sports, this spans both men’s and women’s teams, and will make available its range of payment options to Arsenal supporters. The agreement will also […]
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Walmart to Expand Digital Shelf Labels Chainwide

Walmart will deploy digital shelf labels (DSLs) chainwide this year, doubling the approximately 2,300 U.S. locations currently using the technology (Walmart U.S. operates more than 4,600 stores). With more than 120,000 items in a typical Walmart store, managing price changes manually requires significant associate hours. Additionally, these DSLs are equipped with LED lights that make […]
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