Last week’s most read RTIH retail technology articles

These are the retail systems articles that caught your fancy during the past seven days, including Specsavers, Tesco Whoosh and the 2021 RTIH Innovation Awards.

Retail technology deals at a glance

RTIH rounds up the stand out retail tech deals, deployments and pilots from the past week, including Sports Direct, Boohoo Group, Amazon and Carrefour Group.

Specsavers selects Accenture to modernise IT infrastructure

Specsavers is working with Accenture as it looks to improve its technology capabilities.

This builds on an existing relationship between the pair and calls for Accenture, working with Microsoft, to modernise 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 tech innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world.

Clearpay hits two million customer milestone and unveils Pay Better campaign

Buy now pay later specialist Clearpay has reached two million active customers in the UK.

The venture, which is known as Afterpay outside the UK and Europe, made the announcement as it launched a Pay Better campaign.

Alibaba Group reports big numbers for 6.18 shopping event

Alibaba Group’s 6.18 mid-year shopping festival officially came to a close last week.

The event, which stretched from 24th May to 20th June, is pitched as an important bellwether for Alibaba’s 11.11 festival as brands pilot and fine tune their strategies ahead of November.

2021 highlights included a record 250,000 merchants and brands participating, bringing more than 13 million products in front of Chinese consumers.

boohoo enlists Astound Commerce for Dorothy Perkins, Wallis, Burton websites launch

Online fashion retailer boohoo has launched recently acquired brands Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton on its e-commerce platform in partnership Astound Commerce.

Morrisons under fire after abruptly ending 10% teacher discount

Morrisons has been accused of poor communications and underhand tactics after it pulled a coronavirus outbreak related 10% teachers and school staff discount.

Tesco Whoosh grocery delivery service expands to London and Bristol

Tesco has expanded its Whoosh one-hour delivery service to London and Bristol.

The grocery giant launched a pilot last month from a single store in Wolverhampton.

It is now adding a further 11 Express locations in the aforementioned cities. Chief Executive Ken Murphy said the trial had provided Tesco with “some very interesting data”.