The retail technology week in numbers
20…Retail Technology Innovation Hub is pleased to announce its inclusion in the latest Omnifi ‘Top 20 Sources For Retail Innovation News and Views’.
6…Amazon is planning to open as many as six more Amazon Go stores this year, sources familiar with the company’s plans have told Recode.
Amazon has held talks in Los Angeles with billionaire developer Rick Caruso about bringing a Go store to The Grove, his 600,000-square-foot outdoor shopping Mecca. In its home town of Seattle, meanwhile, the e-commerce giant has identified at least three locations for additional outlets.
50%...Year-over-year Apple Pay growth has been “impressive”, according to Loup Ventures, with active users more than doubling, transactions more than tripling and online merchant adoption increasing by 50%.
100…Asos’ quarterly fashion magazine has celebrated its 100th issue by going on sale for the first time.
20%...of British consumers do their online shopping from work, whilst 4% admit that being drunk was the reason for a purchase. That’s according to research by marketplace, Onbuy.com, involving 1,550 people.
£60 million…Pizza Hut will roll-out Mastercard’s mobile ordering and payments platform, Qkr! with Masterpass, across its UK restaurants from 19th March.
Keith Frimley, IT Director at Pizza Hut Restaurants, says: “Rolling out Qkr is a fantastic opportunity for us to continue the innovation journey we are on as a brand. Over the last six years we have invested over £60 million in transforming our restaurants and menu, and this allows us to continue to improve the service and experience we offer our guests as well as embracing technology, which has become so central to modern culture.”
8 and 11 million…Eagle Eye’s AIR digital marketing platform is powering the new PC Optimum loyalty programme from Canadian retailer, Loblaw. This has combined PC Plus and Shoppers Optimum, which had 8 million and 11 million members respectively
8…Alibaba Cloud has launched eight of its products in Europe. Announced during Mobile World Congress, taking place this week in Barcelona, Spain, these were previously available only to clients in China. They include Image Search, Intelligent Services Robot and Dataphin.
2,000…The final mile is often the final straw for many UK consumers, according to research by eDelivery Expo involving 2,000 people.
44%...of UK shoppers avoid brands that don’t offer them personalised, relevant offers, according to research conducted by Ecrebo. involving 1,092 people. 68%, meanwhile, expect to be offered promotions based on their past purchases.
91%...UK retailers are lagging behind their French counterparts in the race to attract Chinese tourists, according to Nielsen and Alipay’s Outbound Chinese Tourism and Consumption Trends: 2017 Survey.
During their most recent overseas trip, 65% of the Chinese tourists who took part in the research paid for their expenses via their mobile devices. Meanwhile, 91% claimed they would show greater willingness to shop if overseas merchants accepted Chinese mobile payments.
365%...There was rapid growth in the use of mobile and wearable payments last year, with the amount spent by Brits increasing YOY by 365% and 129% respectively, according to Barclaycard research.
