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Join us at the Retail Technology Show this April

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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[…]

It’s not complicated, it’s elementary my dear shoppers

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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[…]

A fad or not a fad, that is the question

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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[…]

Digital Product Passports: what are they and why are they important for retailers?

digital product passports

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,[…]

Archean Stock Solution from Retail247 Deployed in Crew Clothing Stores 

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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[…]

Crew Clothing: a Retail247 Case Study

Crew Clothing

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[…]