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Virtual dressing tech StyleScan raises one million dollars in funding

StyleScan, a virtual dressing technology developer, has announced it has closed an additional one million dollars in funding, bringing its total seed-round capital to three million dollars. In a release, the company, which was founded back in 2018, said the new funding will help it further accelerate the expansion of its e-commerce ‘software as...

Jul 1, 2022

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New study shows consumers taking digital habits in-store

U.S. consumers are four times more likely to use online ordering and curbside pickup in comparison to other regions, according to a new report. The data comes from the 2022 Global Digital Shopping Playbook, a PYMNTS and Cybersource collaboration, and is part of a six-nation study of more than 13,000 consumers and 3,100 businesses in six major...

Apr 19, 2022

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2022 will be a year of digital advancement

It took a pandemic to accelerate e-commerce and focus on digital, but now that customers are fluently shopping across multiple channels, expectations for personalised experiences online is growing. According to Adobe, businesses must create change at every level of their organisation to compete in a digital-first economy. In Adobe’ Digital...

Mar 21, 2022

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Retail trend 2022: clicks to bricks

Ever changing technologies and the rise of online shopping hasn’t dented the popularity for brick and mortar retail, but mastering in-store experiences alongside user experience online is the pinnacle of future success. Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, wrote in an opinion piece in Raconteur that online shopping...

Jan 5, 2022

Retail

Digitisation continues to reinvent the in-store experience

The State of the In-Store Experience 2021 report has been released, and found that 48 percent of shoppers still prefer to shop in-store. In an article, CEO of Raydiant, Bobby Marhmat, outlined what brick-and-mortar stores can introduce in order to outpace their online competitors. When all other factors are equal, the physical shopping...

Dec 27, 2021

Retail

Wildberries launches online store in the UK

Online retailer Wildberries has launched in the UK. This Wildberries’ 19th country of presence. The platform has previously launched in the US, Germany, France, Italy, Latvia and others. It originated in Russia, and is now the country’s biggest online retailer. 450,000 entrepreneurs sell goods through the platform. Residents in the UK will now...

Dec 21, 2021

BusinessFeatured

ESW reports “stellar growth” on the back of direct-to-consumer boom

Global direct-to-consumer e-commerce solution provider ESW has reported that revenues will reach 1.5 billion US dollars in 2021, and will support continued growth with the appointment of Noelle Burke as chief people officer and plans to recruit a further 500 more staff within the next three years. The Dublin-based cross-border e-commerce...

Dec 14, 2021

Fashion

Swarovski launches collaboration platform

Swarovski has announced its new collaboration platform, Creators Lab. The platform allows customers to buy collaboration products from Swarovski channels. Swarovski has also included collaboration brands in its Instant Wonder concept stores for the first time in its history. Collaborations with brands such as FAO Schwarz, Nike and Market will be...

Dec 13, 2021

Business

Shopify ends Black Friday with 2.9 billion dollars in sales

Shopify has announced its Black Friday sales to be a total of nearly 2.9 billion dollars. This is a 21 percent increase in sales from 2020, which saw a 75 percent surge in sales due to lockdown. It is also double Shopify’s sales on Black Friday in 2019. Merchants using Shopify earned peak sales of 3.1 million per minute at 12:02 PM EST during...

Nov 30, 2021

RetailFeatured

Fashion ecommerce sites still fail Google’s user experience requirements

New data suggests around 50 percent of the top 100 most visible¹ websites on Google.com still fail to deliver a “good” page experience on desktop as defined by the Core Web Vitals (Page Experience) update which finished rolling out in August 2021. And 44 percent of the top 100 websites fail on mobile. Fashion ecommerce sites are one of the worst...

Nov 29, 2021

Retail

WomenServe launch online holiday shop to fight gender inequality

Nonprofit WomenServe have launched an online holiday shop in collaboration with the Thar Artisan Collective, in order to fight gender inequality in Rajasthan, India. Its shop for a cause website will see 100 percent of the proceeds donated to funding programs in water security, health and education. It aims to promote gender equality through...

Nov 23, 2021

Podcast

Podcast: Menswear Style Podcast interviews John Bright, founder of The Good Neighbour

In this episode, Menswear Style Podcast has interviewed John Bright, founder of menswear brand The Good Neighbour, about his fashion background and why being direct-to-consumer gives customers a fairer price. Also discussed was the benefits of short-term retail space on both branding and ecommerce sales, as well as making clothes from deadstock...

Nov 22, 2021