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Google Announced Partnership To Boost High Street Sales
Google Announced Partnership To Boost High Street Sales Over the last 15 years, the high street has been taking a pretty big hit due to the success of online retailers. It’s a factor that has led to many closures of what was some pretty major brands including Woolworths and, more…
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Drunk Online Shopper Buys A Pig, Peacock and Salamander
Drunk Online Shopper Buys A Pig, Peacock and Salamander There are more than a few things one should not attempt while drunk. Cooking, driving (obviously) and calling up the ex to profess how you still love them but they never truly understood you and no one ever will. One man in…
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Walmart Patents Design For Heart Rate Shopping Trolley
Walmart Patents Design For Heart Rate Shopping Trolley Shopping is an experience that rarely gets my heart racing. Well, except perhaps when people decide to congregate in the middle of an aisle to discuss the current weather, the price of food or the health of some obscure friend/relative. It seems,…
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Toys R Us Return Tweet Infuriates Former Staff
Toys R Us Return Tweet Infuriates Former Staff Last week it was announced that Toys R Us, after entering administration earlier this year, would be returning for business. Along with Maplin, Toys R Us represented a major loss on the high street, but both closed for similar reasons. Put simply,…
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Amazon Opens 4-Star Retail Store In New York
Amazon Opens 4-Star Retail Store In New York Over the last year, we’ve seen online retailing giant Amazon make more and more tentative steps into the world of high-street retail. There is, of course, some irony in the fact that Amazon’s success led to many of the existing high-street brands…
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Maplin Is Coming Back! (Well Online Anyway)
Maplin Is Coming Back! (Well Online Anyway) 2018 has been a rough year for the UK high streets. We’ve seen many major brands disappear this year. Aside from Toys R Us, the other major loss (particular to tech consumers) was Maplin. Strangely enough, both stores suffered from the same problems.…
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Gamers Abandon Purchases Due To Slow Check-Out Processes
Gamers Abandon Purchases Buying a PC game online, you are often a bit spoilt for choice. You do, of course, have Steam and a number of other sources where game codes can be purchased. It seems, however, that the payment process is putting a lot of people off. In a…
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Microsoft And Walmart Team Up Against Amazon
Microsoft And Walmart Team Up Against Amazon In online retailing, there isn’t a bigger name than Amazon. Their dominance has seen many of their competitors try and give up faced with impossible odds. In the 6 months alone we have seen various retailers either go under or in the case…
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Walmart Gains Patent To Eavesdrop On Staff And Customers
Walmart Gains Patent To Eavesdrop On Staff And Customers Walmart is the biggest shopping brand in the world. With stores in various countries (sometimes under different names) their size is absolutely colossal to behold! It seems, however, that they may want to learn more about their customers than you might…
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Blockbuster Video Will Only Have 1 Store Left On Monday
Blockbusters Will Only Have 1 Store Left On Monday I daresay many of you remember the complete collapse that Blockbuster video saw in 2013. By the beginning of 2014, the video rental store was basically gone. In terms of the UK and Europe, the once incredibly popular store was no…
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Amazon US Found To Be Selling Nazi Themed Items
Amazon US Found To Be Selling Nazi-Themed Items Many of us use Amazon on, at the very least, a weekly basis. Be it for getting some household essentials or just a little present to ourselves, the online giant is, without a doubt, a major part of the retailing world. It…
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Tesco Investigating Checkout Free Shopping
Tesco Investigated Implementation Of Checkout Free Shopping Earlier this year, Amazon Go launched their grocery stores. As part of this innovative launch, it also had a rather interesting concept. Namely, that the stores had no check-outs or tills. It worked by people ‘signing-in’ when they entered the store and then the…
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Ikea To Release Gaming Chairs Custom Made To Your Bottom
Ikea plans to start selling gaming chairs customized to your bottom! I expect that many of you, like me, have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Ikea. I love to go and have a wander around. Get some batteries, maybe a new Kallax unit (you can never have too…
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Amazon Plan Hundreds Of Jobs Cut Despite Massive Profits
Amazon Set to Axe Hundreds of Jobs Despite it being a difficult time for some companies, one which has seen a continued rise is Amazon. Despite this, however, things are not looking too good for employees of the company. In a report via the BBC, despite growing profits, Amazon is…
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Amazon Opens Grocery Store With No Cashiers or Tills
Amazon Go Amazon, never one to shy away from innovations has just launched its most recent idea onto the public. Opening its doors on Monday, Amazon Go launched its first high street store with the incredible feature that it has no cashiers, queues or tills. Well, there might be a…
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