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[…]
Firstly, Happy New Year! We’d like to wish you a healthy and prosperous 2024. The last 12 months have been pretty big for Retail247 – we’ve experienced growth, welcomed some brilliant new clients, and continued to deliver solutions and services we’re incredibly proud of. Catch up on what we got up to below… Note from[…]
Renny Wadsworth writes about the changes of his local high street, but the hope he holds for its future. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,[…]
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[…]
This article discusses what Digital Product Passports are and what retailers must to do to become compliant to the new legislation. Roughly 80 billion new clothing items are consumed globally each year, marking a 400% increase compared to the figure from 20 years ago. The European Commission has recognised the gravity of statistics like these,[…]
Retail247 are pleased to announce the deployment of Archean Move, the flexible and scalable stock solution from Retail247, to Crew Clothing. Archean is the stock solution from Retail247, consisting of a central engine (Archean Core), and supported by a series of transaction providing solutions. As part of Crew Clothing’s three year technology strategy to enable[…]
Retail247 are excited to share a new case study featuring our client Crew Clothing. In the study, we dive into the challenges faces in their retail operations and how Retail247’s solutions and services helped the business overcome these obstacles. We explore the benefits of implementing our PIM solution (Origin) and our stock platform (Archean) and[…]
It’s time for another instalment of our Countdown to RTS series! As a refresh, in June we spoke to our first stand provider. This gave us an idea as to what the next few months are going to look like when it comes to preparing for the Retail Technology Show. In early July we visited[…]
Have you ever made the long slog to your closest shopping centre on the hunt for a specific product only to find out, contrary to the retailer’s website promise, that the product you’re looking for is out of stock? It’s got to be one of the most frustrating scenarios for a shopper. One of my[…]