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These are the articles on retail systems that have caught your fancy over the past seven days, including Specsavers, Tesco Whoosh, and the 2021 RTIH Innovation Awards. Overview of retail technology offerings
RTIH summarizes last week’s amazing retail technology offerings, implementations and pilots, including Sports Direct, Boohoo Group, Amazon and Carrefour Group.
Specsavers chooses Accenture to modernize IT infrastructure
Specsavers is working with Accenture to enhance its technological capabilities.
This builds on an existing relationship between the couple and requires Accenture, in partnership with Microsoft, to modernize Specsavers’ legacy IT architecture with cloud, intelligent automation and security solutions.
2021 RTIH Retail Technology Awards open for nominations
The third edition of the RTIH Innovation Awards opened for entries last week.
The awards, sponsored by leading technology service provider PMC, celebrate global technology innovation in a rapidly evolving omnichannel world.
Clearpay reaches the milestone of two million customers and unveils the Pay Better campaign
The Buy Now specialist pays after Clearpay reached two million active customers in the UK.
The firm, known as Afterpay outside the UK and Europe, made the announcement by launching a Pay Better campaign.
Alibaba Group Reports Big Numbers for 6.18 Shopping Event
Alibaba Groups 6.18 mid-year shopping festival officially ended last week.
The event, which ran from May 24 to June 20, is presented as an important landmark for the Alibabas 11.11 festival as brands pilot and fine-tune their strategies before November.
Highlights of 2021 included a record 250,000 participating merchants and brands, bringing more than 13 million products in front of Chinese consumers.
boohoo enlists Astound Commerce to launch Dorothy Perkins, Wallis, Burton websites
Online fashion retailer boohoo launched the recently acquired brands Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton on its e-commerce platform in partnership with Astound Commerce.
Morrisons under fire after abrupt end of 10% discount for teachers
Morrisons was accused of poor communications and underhanded tactics after pulling out a coronavirus outbreak related to 10% off teachers and school staff.
Tesco Whoosh grocery delivery service expands to London and Bristol
Tesco has expanded its Whoosh hourly delivery service to London and Bristol.
The grocery giant launched a pilot project last month from a single store in Wolverhampton.
It is now adding 11 more Express locations in the aforementioned cities. Chief Executive Ken Murphy said the trial provided Tesco with some very interesting data.
Homebase implements the Checkout.com cloud payments platform
Homebase has announced Checkout.com as a new online payment provider.
Danielle Young joins Card Factory’s IT leadership team
Card Factory has appointed Danielle Young as Head of IT Service.
Previously, he worked at the retailer as a contract-based business change consultant. Previously, Young was IT Director at Fenwick.
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