Aldi named cheapest supermarket of the year amid ‘significant’ price rises
Aldi has narrowly beaten its rival Lidl to be named the cheapest supermarket of the year, as grocery prices rose by up to 9%...
Which retailers were the winners and losers over Christmas?
Christmas is always a pivotal period for retailers and other high street firms but perhaps had even greater significance this year after 2020’s efforts...
Gen Z shoppers more favourable to Buy Now, Pay Later services
In the past year, 42% of British 16-to-24-year-olds used a Buy Now, Pay Later service to help evenly spread the cost of big-budgeted fashion...
Facebook and Twitter ‘failing to tackle fake review factories’
Facebook and Twitter have been accused of failing to tackle an online industry of fake product reviews, with new research uncovering schemes on the...
What does 2022 hold for the retail industry? Hear from the experts…
It’s no secret that the retail industry experienced incredible disruption over the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted many areas where retailers needed to...
Retail Report finds shoppers crave in-store technology that mimics their online experience
Bazaarvoice, Inc., provider of product reviews and user-generated content (UGC) solutions, announced the results of its newest study, “The State of Retail Report”.The research...
Account and password frustrations prompt two-thirds of shoppers to abandon their cart, study reveals
Retailers could be shutting down huge revenue streams due to poor shopping sign-up processes, a study from the passwordless multi-factor authentication (MFA) provider Beyond Identity has...
Sales from mobile devices beat pre-pandemic highs by 47% to hit £19.8bn this Christmas
Shoppers are forecast to spend £19.8bn using their smartphones and tablets this festive season, up 47% on 2019 which is the first comparative year, according to new data .
The VoucherCodes.co.uk Shopping for Christmas 2021 report, shows mCommerce...
Smashed bottles and binned deliveries among Christmas parcel disasters
Parcels thrown over fences, broken items and packages taken away by bin collectors were among delivery problems experienced by around four in 10 online...
Bank branch closures should be paused immediately, says Which?
Banks are being urged to put an immediate pause on branch closure plans, following an “alarming acceleration”.
Analysis by Which? found there have been 736...