Featuring Cider, Sofa Club, and a flurry of retail technology innovation: Issue seven of RTIH magazine goes live

The seventh issue of Retail Technology Innovation Hub (RTIH) magazine is now available both online and in physical format.

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In this edition, we showcase the 2024 RTIH Innovation Awards,  sponsored by CADS, 3D Cloud, and Retail Technology Show 2025, and Business France.

Deadline for entries is Friday, 25th October, with winners being announced at the 2024 RTIH Innovation Awards ceremony, to be held at RIBA’s 66 Portland Place HQ in Central London on Thursday, 21st November.

We also present the Retail Technology Innovations Report, sponsored by 3D Cloud.

This highlights the top 50 retail tech plays of the past 12 months as decided by myself and an independent advisory panel.

Innovation and technology play a critical role in the success of the retail sector, and it is great to celebrate this with the Retail Technology Innovations report.

We have now started work on the 2025 edition, which will be published both in our magazine and on our website in March of next year. In this issue, we run through a few early contenders for the next top 50.

Elsewhere, RTIH talks social media, physical locations and online opportunities with Louis Rose, Co-founder of Sofa Club, and our secret shopper delves into the online experience offered by Cider, the fast fashion firm that is challenging Shein.

Also, our Editor, Scott Thompson, highlights the continued importance of high streets and town centres amid the rise in popularity of streaming services and online shopping. They are vital for the UK’s economic success. But it goes beyond that. They also play a massive role in civic and community life, in a way that Netflix, Amazon et al will never be able to do.

Retail tech solutions and retailers’ management teams are faced with the challenge of deciding which industry events to attend. Where do regional shows that are under 3,000 attendees fit into the landscape of events? Our US correspondent Christine Russo is here to lay it out.

And last but most certainly not least, regular contributor, Mike Cadden, talks about how building a community around your e-commerce brand is a powerful strategy for driving long-term sales and enhancing customer lifetime value.

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