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Retail Industry & Technology (3)

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Phone/AR Tech Insights

Phone Tech moves to AR glasses, which means big changes for Retail!

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Making Your Face Pay

Biometric authentication could secure over $2.5 trillion in mobile transactions by 2024 if things carry on as they are.

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Friction Free With New Priorities

According to Gartner: “By 2025, organizations offering unified commerce experience, by moving customers, without friction through purchase journeys,...

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Core Web Vitals...don’t forget about Desktop!

Edit: May 2024: Google have replaced their FID measure discussed below with INP, Interaction to Next Paint - the content below is largely correct...

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The 4 Golden Rules for pain-free technology transformation

We are delighted to support the retail industry as an associate partner of the British Retail Consortium.

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New case study - how an online marketplace smashed their peak!

Our latest case study is available and talks through the work we did with a major online marketplace to ensure they were ready for Black Friday and...

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Re-platforming your ecommerce infrastructure in 2021

Unless you're Bill Gates, you probably didn't predict the Coronavirus pandemic or anticipate its impact on socialising, shopping and working over the...

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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...

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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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