Today is the opening day of the Summer Olympic games in Paris. This is the 30th time the games have been staged. Over the next 16 days, 329 events will be completed. There will be 10,500 athletes from 200 countries and for the first time in history, there will be an equal number of male[…]
In this blogpost, our Non-Executive Director Alan Morris discusses a recent shopping experience he had. The experience highlighted everything he loves about the retail industry. One sunny morning, my wife and I embarked on a jaunt along the Cornish coast path from Padstow to Polzeath, eager to enjoy the breath-taking scenery that awaited us. Little[…]
In this blogpost, our Non-Executive Director Alan Morris explains why he thinks people from every department should attend the Retail Technology Show. Many years ago, when my company first started exhibiting at technology shows, I used to wish more people from every area of a retail business would attend, not just the IT department. We[…]
In this blogpost, our retail tech expert Alan Morris discusses what retailers can learn from Sherlock Holmes. That’s a sentence we never imagined writing! Sherlock Holmes referred to himself as a “consulting detective”. Widely known for his proficiency with observation and deduction, his logical reasoning bordered on the fantastic. Surprisingly, Holmes characterised his work as[…]
If Nick Robertson and Quentin Griffiths, the founders of ASOS, had read the report from the ‘Virtual Society Project’ on December 5th 2000 they may have thought, “What are we doing?”. The report proclaimed that the internet was just a passing fad. It said that teenagers were using it less, and the opportunities for online[…]
I want to thank ‘The Fun Boy Three’ and ‘Bananarama’ for bringing this phrase to my attention in 1982. Whilst I didn’t appreciate it at the time, I now recognise it as the best business advice I have ever been given. Whilst the catchy lyrics from the song certainly mean something else, they do hold[…]
There is constant pressure on retailers to innovate and get ahead of their competition. But in their pursuit of innovation, they may be overlooking the value of the basics. Of course, the problem with ‘basics’ is that the word is usually preceded by ‘going back to’, and no company wants to be seen to be[…]
Prior to confronting Goliath, David picked up 5 pebbles and put them in his pocket. He probably opted for 5 because he thought he’d need that many chances to win. But as it happened, he was successful with the first strike, though had he missed, he knew his fight wasn’t over because he had more[…]
As part of a new mini-series, we are going to be interviewing several of our colleagues to find out more about their careers, their highs and lows and what it’s like working within retail tech at Retail247. Our network has grown a lot over the last couple of years, and we’d love for you to[…]
We all love a buzzword because they create a sense of excitement or a point of difference. They make us feel that something complex may be more straightforward, and what we think of as probably unachievable is in fact within our grasp. Retail loves a buzzword, from ‘clicks and bricks’, to ‘smart retailing’, and of[…]
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