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Evri has announced a partnership with Tesco that will enable people to collect Clubcard points for every parcel they send with it. This is the first time that the UK’s largest retailer has agreed this type of Clubcard partnership with a parcel delivery firm. From today, consumers will be able to collect one Clubcard point […]
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Visitors to Trafford’s White City Retail Park are now able to charge their electric vehicles while they shop thanks to the installation of five new ultra-rapid chargers.  All Be.EV members will also have exclusive access, free of charge, at this location for a week, from Tuesday 14th until Tuesday 21st November. The project marks the […]
  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
Bloomberg reports that Amazon plans to once again start opening new supermarkets while at the same time rolling out a new grocery delivery service for people who are not Prime members. The story characterizes the moves as a “grocery reboot” consistent with CEOAndy Jassy’s stated goal to get grocery right before investing in new stores […]
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FinTech firm, TrueLayer, reports that its new payments app is now live in the Shopify App Store, allowing UK and EU merchants to add open banking payments to their checkout. Electronics retailer Maplin has gone live with the app, with further partners to be announced soon. The move enables Shopify merchants to add instant bank […]
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[[“value”:” The report highlights a 12% increase in volumes driven by customer shifts to healthier product lines. Credit: D K Grove/Shutterstock. Tesco said its efforts to promote healthier shopping baskets have shown a significant impact, with 3.3 million customers purchasing at least 10% more healthy products in 2022. In a recent report, the retailer signified […]
  1. Media & Marketing
Bloomberg has a piece about how in the UK, food retailers are doing battle with market share-grabbing discounters Aldi and Lidl with more aggressive marketing of their loyalty card programs. This has become even more important, the story says, as food inflation has had an impact on prices and consumer spending.  Promotions have become critical, […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
It’s Friday, the weekend is almost upon us, so let’s kick back and reflect on another eventful week for the retail systems space. Here’s your briefing on the most important stories from the past five days, including Walmart, Mars Wrigley, Zippin, Amazon, Tesco, and dunnhumby. 1. Blue Yonder announces intent to acquire first and last […]
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The Consumer Goods Forum Food Waste Coalition of Action (FWCOA) has launched its #TooGoodToWaste initiative, a food loss and waste education project designed to spur faster progress in minimizing waste among CGF members and their millions of customers. The FWCOA has created a TooGoodToWaste page with information and resources to share with consumers, and food […]
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Tesco Media and Insight Platform, powered by dunnhumby, has unveiled a range of new onsite and in-store media channels. At an Upfront event in London, updates were announced including Scan as You Shop media, new in-store digital screens and new onsite digital performance ads. “Tesco are leading the way in retail media, giving brands and […]
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New GMB analysis shows that 420,242 bricks and mortar UK retail jobs have gone – a decline of 28.4% – since the Conservatives took power in 2010.  The figures emerge as the last Wilko stores close their doors for the final time, costing 12,500 workers their jobs after the chain collapsed.  Thank you to our […]
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Nectar360, which owns and operates Nectar, a UK loyalty coalition programme, as well as managing Sainsbury’s and Argos’ retail media services, has announced plans to expand its connected digital screen network to over 800 screens, in conjunction with out of home media and infrastructure company, Clear Channel, a move that also includes the launch of […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
It’s October, September is done and dusted, so let’s kick back and reflect on a hugely eventful few weeks for the retail systems space. Here’s your briefing on the most important stories from last month, including Walmart, POCLab, Amazon, Avery Dennison, and the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards. 1. Walmart works with POCLab on The Cultureverse, […]
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88 UK retailers, including Tesco, Boots, John Lewis Partnership, and Marks & Spencer, have signed a letter to the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, demanding action over rising rates of retail crime. The 2023 BRC Crime Survey showed that incidents of violence and abuse towards retail colleagues had almost doubled on pre-pandemic levels to 867 incidents […]
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Retail is arguably changing faster than ever before. Every market I visit is changing in many ways, and while each country is different, there are a number of unifying trends that are hitting almost everywhere. Yes, the balance between the trends might vary, but each of these is hitting pretty much everywhere to some degree. […]
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[[ by BP has appointed former Lidl UK marketing director Claire Farrant as VP of marketing for its mobility and convenience retail business in Europe. Farrant spent ten years in senior positions at Tesco prior to joining Lidl in 2015. At Lidl, she played a crucial role in expanding the retailer’s market share and was […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
It’s Friday, the weekend is almost upon us, so let’s kick back and reflect on another eventful week for the retail systems space. Here’s your briefing on the most important stories from the past five days, including autonomous stores, virtual commerce, Just Walk Out tech meets RFID, and phone shops reinvented. 1. Pixevia works with […]
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– – • Tesco has become the latest member of Wastebuster’s Recycle to Read toy recycling initiative – designed to educate and promote toy reuse and create a new infrastructure for recycling plastic toys. – • Recycle to Read collection bins will be trialled in selected Tesco stores from 4 September. – • Customers will […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
We’re big fans of LinkedIn and are busy building an amazing community of retail tech enthusiasts on the social media platform. These are the articles that are currently on their radars, including Asda, Penny Black, Marie Curie, AiFi, JUXTA, and Pocket Planet. PMC announced as headline sponsor of the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards, winners to […]
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Customers shopping at Tesco will soon see changes across its own brand milk – as the supermarket works with suppliers to make milk bottles even easier to recycle.� By removing coloured plastic and changing blue, red and green milk caps to a clear alternative – on around 425 million bottles of milk every year – […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Jeremy Pee is set to depart M&S just months after assuming an expanded position with the UK retailer. Pee was hired in 2018 from Canadian supermarket chain Loblaw. He took on the role of Chief Digital and Technology Officer earlier this year. He was previously Chief Digital and Data Officer, and held that position for […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
[[“value”:” Credit: GlobalData. With high food inflation continuing to put pressure on household finances, loyalty schemes are an effective way for supermarkets to compete with the consistently low prices of discounters Aldi and Lidl. The most important aspects of loyalty schemes for consumers are discounts and rewards, with 51% stating that they valued “discounts open […]
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[[ by Tesco has announced a major overhaul to the range of products it stocks in Express stores in a move to reinforce its position as the UK’s best value convenience store chain. The overhaul will see more than 50 key everyday products replaced with even more keenly-priced alternatives – many from its own-brand range […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Carrefour Belgium reports a rise in customer satisfaction across its retail network thanks to its collaboration with Goodays. As a result of deploying the company’s platform, the retailer says it can establish even closer contact with its customers and respond to their requests more quickly, as both parties take stock after two years of cooperation. […]
  1. Channel: Mass
A move by Tesco to help customers find marked-down yellow sticker food items more easily has proved so popular that it has been expanded to 300 stores across the UK. For the revamp the supermarket made bold new signage for its mark-down section in stores to help shoppers find food bargains and at the same […]
  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital
For Amazon’s grocery business, it appears to be go big or go home. Bloomberg reports that Amazon “is launching the biggest overhaul of its grocery business since it acquired Whole Foods Market six years ago – revamping stores, testing new highly automated warehouses and, for the first time, offering fresh-food delivery to customers who aren’t […]
  1. Media & Marketing
Retail media networks (RMNs) are expanding rapidly, and retailers of all sizes are joining the race, offering ad placements on an ever-widening variety of channels. The opportunity here is enormous, as these ads are shown to people who are already looking to make purchases — which isn’t necessarily the case when compared to ads on […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
Check out the RTIH articles that caught your fancy last week, including Under Armour, Lacoste, Dsquared2, Ikea, Ocado Group, Co-op, Sweaty Betty, and Mars. RELEX Solutions helps Getir ‘reap benefits of autonomous, adaptive, and unified supply chain planning’ Rapid grocery delivery firm, Getir, is partnering with RELEX Solutions. This will see it gain an integrated […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
RTIH looks at the key factors behind Amazon’s underwhelming entrance on to the hugely competitive UK grocery retail stage. Amazon UK recently announced it was shutting three of its London-based Amazon Fresh checkout-free stores, including its first which only opened two years ago. The e-commerce giant said the move was down to ‘optimisation decisions’ about […]
  1. Retailer Media
dunnhumby has announced the appointment of Josh Bottomley as CEO. Bottomley was most recently an Operating Partner at CVC Capital Partners and has held senior roles at data and product led businesses including HSBC, Google and LexisNexis. He starts work at dunnhumby today and will succeed Dan Olley, who has been CEO since January 2022. […]
  1. Data & Insights
Ingka Group, the largest Ikea retailer, has reported on how 8,500 co-workers are being supported by the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered Billie chatbot. By tapping chatbots, powered by AI and natural language Processing (NLP), Ikea says it can use automated design systems to better interact with customers in real-time. Billie can understand customer questions, […]
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Yahoo Advertising and Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM) — the retail media business of Kroger, powered by 84.51° — are teaming up to bring Kroger’s first-party, purchase-based audiences to the Yahoo Demand-Side Platform (DSP). Yahoo DSP advertisers can now activate KPM’s audiences to reach targeted consumers with their advertising and measure campaign results. While off-site advertising […]
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SEATTLE – Amazon posted better-than-expected revenue and earnings in the quarter ended March 31. Net sales increased 13% from a year earlier to $143.3 billion. The company reported first-quarter net income of $10.4 billion, or 98 cents a diluted share, compared to $3.2 billion a year earlier. Amazon’s operating income surged to $15.3 billion, up […]
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart today said it has made the “difficult decision” to close its Walmart Health and Walmart Virtual Care clinics, citing a lack of profitability. “The decision to close all 51 health centers across five states and shut down the virtual care offering was not easy. We understand this change affects lives – […]

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