iPrice Group, a meta-search engine in Southeast Asia, has released its 2017 State of eCommerce report, to shed light on some of the area’s most important eCommerce metrics. The research leverages iPrice’s proprietary data from over 1,000 eCommerce players operating in the 6 of the largest Southeast Asian markets (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and […]
Allbirds, the startup shoe brand that has become popular in Silicon Valley, celebrated its second birthday with a limited-edition shoe collection that can only be purchased on Instagram, and not on a website or in stores, according to Adweek. The shoes are only available until they sell out. Customers in the U.S., New Zealand and […]
Shoppers at UK supermarket the Co-op will soon be able to bypass the checkout and instead pay for their groceries with their own mobile phones. The Co-op has teamed up with Mastercard to trial a new app at the retailer’s support centre in Manchester ahead of a wider rollout this summer. Customers will be able […]
Voice shopping is expected to jump to $40 billion in 2022, up from $2 billion today, suggesting the new channel may well be the next major disruptive force in retail, according to data from OC&C Strategy Consultants. The survey showed growth in the voice segment will be driven by a surge in the number of […]
Mobile and wearable payments are on the rise in the UK, with the pair of ‘touch-and-go’ payments options growing by 365 per cent and 129 per cent over the last 12 months. The growth statistics come from Barclays’ credit card arm Barclaycard and the company’s Android contactless mobile facility, as well as its bPay payment […]
126m in-store contactless purchases were made via mobile devices in the UK last year, with spending passing £975m. According to payment processing company Worldpay, this spending accounted for a 328 per cent year-on-year growth of in-store mobile spending in 2017. The supermarket sector saw 59 per cent of all in-store mobile transactions, while pubs, bars, […]
Bricks-and-mortar shopping could be about to change forever. Amazon pioneered the automated convenience store with its newly-opened Go supermarket, and now computer vision company AiFi is introducing the first scalable, checkout-free system for stores outside of Amazon’s sphere of influence. The technology has the potential to turn enormous retail spaces and small mom-and-pop operations alike […]
Amazon plans to open as many as six more cashierless stores in 2018, according to a report. The e-commerce giant is considering locations in Los Angeles and hometown Seattle, where the first Amazon Go store opened last month, Recode reported, citing people familiar with the situation. Amazon Go is the company’s most ambitious effort to […]
Commerce marketing technology company Criteo has released findings from its Global Commerce Review for Q4 of 2017. It analyses shoppers’ activities, behaviours and preferences across all devices and browsing environments. The report, which highlights a growing reliance on apps among shoppers, reinforces the “mobile-first” mindset, and will help inform omnichannel commerce marketing strategies worldwide. Criteo […]
Amazon is finally opening its checkout-free brick-and-mortar convenience store to the public, nearly a year after it originally planned to open its doors. Amazon Go is an 1,800 square foot automated store based at Amazon Seattle headquarters. The store relies on sensors and cameras to detect what items shoppers have taken from the shelves, […]