Hyper-personalisation is not better segmentation. Traditional personalisation puts a buyer into a bucket (women aged 25-34 who bought a coat) and shows every person in that bucket the same homepage....
New Zealand based buy now pay later firm Laybuy entered UK administration on 24 June 2024. FRP Advisory were appointed administrators of Laybuy Holdings (UK) Limited. The provider ceased trading...
On 25 April 2019, the UK Competition and Markets Authority formally blocked the proposed merger between J Sainsbury plc and Asda Group Ltd. Both companies walked away the same day....
In 2019, Walmart filed a patent for a blockchain-based digital currency and registered trademarks for Walmart Coin and Walmart Token. The news triggered a wave of speculation that the retail...
Mike Ashley is the British billionaire founder of Frasers Group, the retail conglomerate formerly known as Sports Direct. He bought Newcastle United in May 2007 and sold it in October...
In October 2022, Amazon permanently ended field tests of its Scout autonomous sidewalk delivery robot. The six-wheeled, cooler-sized vehicle was supposed to handle last-mile deliveries by rolling along pedestrian paths....
In May 2021, Kroger announced a pilot to deliver groceries by drone with Drone Express, a TELEGRID Technologies subsidiary. The test ran in Centerville, Ohio, near Kroger's Cincinnati headquarters. It...
Hubble is a digital marketplace where businesses book flexible office space by the day, week, or month, no long lease required. Founded in London in 2014 by Tushar Agarwal and...
Every office layout encodes a theory about how people should work. The open floor of 1906, the cubicle farm of the 1970s, the dot-com playground of the 1990s, and the...
Jody Ford became chief executive of the Moonpig and Photobox Group in 2018. Over the next three years he steered the business through a split from Photobox and onto the...
Co-op, the British grocer owned by millions of members rather than shareholders, is rolling out Microsoft Azure, Power BI and artificial intelligence tools across its 2,500 UK locations. The partnership...
Forrest Shinners is the founder and CEO of Kit Lender, a rental outfit based in Stowe, Vermont. He launched the operation after wrestling with the logistics of hauling skis, boots,...
