Ecommerce Club Blog

20th May 2022

The main driver of the surprise rise in UK retail sales in April was alcohol and cigarette sales. Last month the volume of sales jumped by 1.4% after a 1.2% fall in March. Despite the rising cost of living weighing on household budgets, sales continue to grow. However, official figures revealed a longer downward trend… Read more »

10th May 2022

Ikea will invest in the production of mini-distribution centres in their suburban stores to supply the rising online orders from shops. A huge part of this spending will be made in London, which is more and more viewed as a testbed for the Swedish giant. Homewares & Households leader Ikea is to invest and devote… Read more »

8th May 2022

After donating almost his entire £750,000 salary to charity, Matthew Moulding only received £20,000 last year., The CEO was entitled to a bonus which he waived. Following the revelation that THG spent £797,000 on Moulding’s private security between 2020 and 2021, Matthew Moulding would not accept any financial help. After discussions with HMRC, the group… Read more »

6th May 2022

Some Gucci shops in America will start accepting crypto-currency payments. Bitcoin, Ethereul and Litecoin are among the crypto-currencies that will be used by customers to make purchases. The service will be rolled out to its flagship stores such as Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles and Wooster Street in New York this month at the latest.… Read more »

6th May 2022

The giants of tech like Google or Facebook will have to comply with new rules on the competition established by the British government or else huge fines will be applied The DMU (Digital Market Unit) will have in their possession the ability to bridle “predatory practices” done by the tech leaders with the likes of… Read more »

30th April 2022

Amazon has reported its first quarterly loss since 2015 due to lower online sales and a fall in the value of its shares in the electric vehicle firm Rivian. Online sales at the e-commerce giant dropped 3% in the first quarter of the year, as the boom to its business from the pandemic starts to… Read more »

29th April 2022

Twitter, which this week agreed to be bought by billionaire Elon Musk, has said its user numbers grew much faster than expected in the past year. Advertising revenue has also been rising, but by less than was forecast. Some observers have questioned Mr Musk’s commercial judgement in buying Twitter, a platform that despite its high… Read more »

28th April 2022

Digital now dominates the UK ad market, with three in every four pounds now going to online formats.New research by AA/WARC shows that the UK ad sector grossed a record £31.9bn in 2021, up 34.3 percent year-on-year. partly due to inflationary pressures on the cost of advertising but also a higher than expected growth in… Read more »

20th April 2022

The Cannes Lérins Agglomération has launched contactless EMV (cEMV) ticketing on the Palm Bus network in Cannes, France. in collaboration with Palm Bus, Kuba, La Banque Postale, and Littlepay, which provides a payments infrastructure for transport and mobility operators.  Passengers across the network of over 200 buses will be able to pay for trips with a Visa… Read more »

18th April 2022

Downing Street and Foreign Office computer systems have been suspected to have been infected with spyware, according to a Canadian investigative group. The Citizen Lab says it informed officials that suspected Pegasus spyware was discovered in 2020 and 2021, with the Downing Street incident linked to operators in the UAE. Read more at BBC  

16th April 2022

The Board of Twitter board has armed itself against a possible hostile takeoverthe  a day after billionaire Elon Musk made a $43bn (£33bn) offer to buy the platform. It has adopted what is known as a “limited-duration shareholder rights plan”, also known as a “poison pill”. The move will prevent anyone from having more than… Read more »

4th April 2022

BetterCommerce, an API first headless and composable ecommerce platform, today announced a strategic partnership with LAB Group, a leading digital agency with multi-disciplinary expertise across technology, marketing, data-led human insights, communications, and creativity. The partnership will support BetterCommerce customers by working with a leading agency whose expertise is in large scale digital transformation across multiple… Read more »