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Our Top 5 Retail & Technology 2021 Trends

The past 12 months brought unprecedented and unpredicted disruption to the retail sector, with COVID-19 barely on the long-distance radar as the bells chimed in the new year for the start of 2020.

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What the tech? A look back at 2020 in software and retail

Who’d have thought when walking on the street someone wearing a mask and people keeping their distance from you would be the norm? There are a lot of...

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Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2020: What to expect?

Black Friday is “dead”. The virus has “killed” retail. How many times have these phrases circulated the news and internet in earlier coverage of the...

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Is AR the next critical investment for fashion retailers?

Early fashion ecommerce faced one major problem - customers were used to shopping in-store, being able to touch clothes, see exactly how they looked,...

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Investing in PWAs for ecommerce

Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are an incredibly valuable way to bridge the gap between mobile websites and fully fledged apps, while offering benefits...

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Retailers - Prepare your software for peak seasons!

As we move towards the end of 2020, we’re approaching the most wonderful (and stressful) time of the year where retailers are not only facing one...

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Repairing a Broken Test Automation Solution: Part Two

Welcome back to our ‘Repairing a Broken Test Automation Solution’ series, part two. As always, take some time to read part one first in order to get...

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