retail marketing

Georgian Partners Doubles Its Investment in Bluecore During Series D Round, Pulling from Its New $1B+ Fund; FirstMark and Norwest Also Reinvest in the Retail Marketing Technology Company Bluecore, the marketing technology company reimagining how the world’s fastest-growing retail brands transform casual shoppers into lifetime customers, today announced the close of its $50 million Series […]

The platform enables retailers to grow advertising revenue by providing transparency, flexibility and control to brands and agencies Criteo S.A., the global technology company powering the world’s marketers with trusted and impactful advertising, today announced the launch of its first-to-market, self-service Retail Media platform. Retail media, the placement of brand-sponsored advertising within retailer e-commerce sites […]

The Covid-19 global pandemic has forced retailers in the UAE to stretch their supply chains and logistics in unprecedented ways. Whilst supplies of grocery and essential commodities have been coming into the country without a hitch to date, the main problem has been trying to get the product to consumers at a time when there […]

With many countries around the world still in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of my focus this month has been in helping my retail clients to find new ways to cope and (in some cases) meet the increase in e-commerce demand. It would be wrong to write an article without a nod […]

A new retail report by CFI Group and Radial shows that 38% of customers generally avoid participating in retail loyalty programs. Many customers just don’t see enough value being offered in loyalty programs to make it worth joining. Retailers have an obvious incentive to add more customers to their loyalty programs. Our study shows that retail loyalty members are […]

Zynstra report claims that 96% of c-store directors and IT managers agreed that if it was easier to implement new applications and services, they would do it more often.  Zynstra, the leading provider of purpose-built software powering the retail edge, released its C-Store Technology Insight Report, which identifies the key priorities and obstacles c-store retailers […]

A new retail report based on a survey conducted by CFI Group and Radial shows that today’s shoppers expect easy and immediate chat assistance online and flexible delivery options that fit into their busy schedules. Live online chat during an online purchase has become ubiquitous. In fact, 25% of online retail customers reported they had used chat at least three separate […]

Remembers when marketers launched a campaign and waited for weeks to know if it was working? Real-time analytics has changed all that. Every second we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, of which 90 per cent has been created just in the past two years. This is referred to as Big Data, simply because of […]