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Luke
Are the UK's high streets in a death spiral? Are they worth saving?
Phil Wrigley, chairman of Majestic Wine, has state that the UK's high streets are in a 'death spiral' , and that many shops on high ...
Retail veteran warns of 'death spiral' for shopping streets independent.co.uk
A veteran retailer has urged the Government to reject Mary Portas's plans to save the high street, claiming many shopping streets are "in a death spiral".
Luke
87% prefer browser-based shopping to using apps (amongst those who shop on desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones)
Only 4% preferred to use apps. Is it time for retailers to shift away from producing apps and focus on the brower-based experience, ...
QR Codes and eCommerce 2d-code.co.uk
An interesting study by Zmags based on a survey of 1,500 people who shop via PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones includes a surprising statistic of interest to brands using QR Codes. 87% of the consumers surveyed prefer to...
Luke
Great opinion piece on why mobile payments haven't yet taken off
It's not about lack of consumer-side demand or technology barriers, it's the high cost of software integration and implementation. Does ...
Why mobile payments still haven’t revolutionized retail venturebeat.com
Mobile payments are a revolution waiting to happen. It just makes sense that, with so many of us carrying around increasingly advanced smartphones, we’ll be able to use them to pay at brick-and-m...
Antonia
"The death of the store is nonsense." Interview with Robert Willett
Unwired speaks to Robert Willett, Chairman of MetaPack and ex-CEO of Best Buy International, about the future of the retail industry, ...
futuretail 2012 - Robert Willett interview unwired.eu.com
Andy
What is the appetite for CCTV management systems in Retail?
What is the appetite in the UK retail market for CCTV management systems that provide high level analysis of shoppers behaviour, give ...
Alan
UK retailer Oasis makes it into the top five in the first global omni-channel fashion survey | The Retail Bulletin, Retail News theretailbulletin.com
The online retail news resource for retailers. Breaking news on retail, e-tail and multichannel retail.
Darren
Christie Micotile Showcase on 18th May -
Christie Micotile Showcase on 18th May - this time to be held at the Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London. ...
Christie MicroTile Showcase at RIBA, 18th May. saville-av.com
Saville Audio Visual invites you to a Christie Micotile Showcase on 18th May - this time to be held at the Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London. Want to see what effective brand promotion and digital messaging can do for your organisation? Join market leaders Christie to see these live demonstrations of stunning Christie MicroTiles technology. Demonstrations to include
Antonia
Videos from futuretail 2012 are now available
The speaker videos from futuretail 2012 are now available to view on youtube. You can access all of them here:
http://www.unwired.eu.co ...
Duke
ICSC RECON 2012 Summary. dukelong.com
Yes it is finally over and I am back in hiding with a little time to reflect. The enormous and daunting task of meeting and trying to connect with everyone you want cannot be overstated. The people at ICSC and I mean everyone...
Luke
What is the future for specialist retailers on our local high streets?
More and more specialist retailers with a large presence on many of our local high streets are being squeezed by large general stores ...
Game Over? fool.co.uk
The fat lady is limbering up after a horrible Christmas at the video-game retailer. Game Group ( LSE: GMG) needed a good Christmas period to bring in some cash and keep it afloat, after seeing its market steadily being taken...
Luke
Will the London Olympics make 2012 the year contactless payments took off?
Visa seem to think so. There will be about 3,000 contactless payment devices set up around Olympic venues, including 350 vending ...
This year will be a watershed for contactless payments, with the London 2012 Olympics acting as a showcase for the technology, according to a senior technologist at Visa. Speaking at BT's Olympics themed event Race to the Line,...
Luke
High streets and town centres are in decline...
... but does the Portas Review published in December last year have the right answers?
Luke
Pop-up shops... Are they the answer to making the most of unused retail property?
Some great imaginative and innovative examples from all round the world...
Top Pop-Up Shops: 14 Temporary Retail Stores weburbanist.com
Literally erected overnight, pop-up shops can appear just about anywhere and aim to dazzle onlookers with unusual exteriors and stunning interior designs.
Luke
80% say that social networks had no influence on their Christmas shopping last year...
...and fewer than 9% have bought anything from a retailer's Facebook page. The Baynote Holiday Online Shopping Experience survey of ...
CorpComms Magazine corpcommsmagazine.co.uk
CorpComms - News - 2072 Social Networks Do Not Influence Shopping Decisions: the only monthly magazine for the in-house corporate communicator, offering advice on all their career...
Luke
Welcome to the FutuRetail group
This is a forum to enable discussion of some of the key trends in retail. Which forces and technologies are shaping trends in the ...
Neil
Is future retail about renting rather than buying?
With more people living in Cities, in smaller and smaller flats, combined with still growing population growth, and the sustainability ...
Luke
The Economist: Britons don’t want their high streets to decay, but neither do they like to shop in them. Those desires are hard to reconcile
"The notion that [high streets] should be purely for commerce is fairly recent. Eventually, high streets may revert to a mixture of ...
Nation of shop critics economist.com
DUNSTABLE is not a deprived place, although a look at its main street suggests otherwise. Roughly one in four shops in this Bedfordshire town of 35,000 people, north-west of London, lies empty.
Malcolm
Chris
Is Westfield an example of a black hole?
Black holes suck everything in - and so, it seems do regional shopping malls. We are moving to a new marketing dynamic where customers ...
Futures Coaching futurescoaching.typepad.com
We live in a world where, increasingly, winner takes all; being merely average or mainstream is the route to failure. Look around and we see this trend playing out everywhere. Celebrity culture, sporting heros, world cities,...
Luke
Amazon emerges from the internet into the high street, to sell tablets and 'Amazon exclusive' books
Are they trying to play catch-up with Apple? And will it work?
Amazon 'to open first physical shop' telegraph.feedsportal.com
Amazon is set to open its first physical shop in Seattle, selling its own electronic goods and books, according to a report.
