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Retail Industry & Technology (4)

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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 must use automated testing to their advantage

For retailers in 2020, it really is a year of two halves. The first six months brought lockdown, a shutdown of non-essential retail, and a chance to...

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The challenges for retail

The retail sector has faced ongoing disruption in recent years with the rise of ecommerce, click-and-collect, next-day and even same-day deliveries....

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