Category: Tech

February 22, 2021

New “hygienic interface” technology could drastically increase the number of safe interactions customers can have with self-service checkouts before they need cleaning. Design agency Special Projects has developed an algorithm designed to significantly change the way customers interact with self-checkouts, […]

February 16, 2021

It’s been a tough few years for retailers. Over 7,500 retail stores were expected to close in 2020, while dozens of large chain retailers have filed for bankruptcy in response to COVID-19. Consumer behavior has also shifted — people are […]

February 15, 2021

Ebay sellers will soon be forced to link their bank accounts to their profiles in order to continue selling as it pushes ahead with its separation from PayPal. In February last year Ebay announced that it was ending its deeply […]

February 10, 2021

While technology has continued to have a dramatic impact on the retail industry, the spread of COVID-19 has created new technology trends and accelerated current tech best practices significantly. Between the need for more expansive ecommerce functions, low-contact or no-contact […]

February 2, 2021

Amazon is expanding the rollout of its biometric palm scanning system to more of its branded stores, allowing customers to pay with nothing but their hands. Amazon One was launched in September last year at two Amazon Go convenience stores […]

February 1, 2021

Nearly 200 online retailers offering payment via “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) schemes have been found to be in breach of UK consumer law. Which? has found 170 retailers, promoted by the UK’s largest BNPL companies, with potentially illegal returns […]

January 27, 2021

Walmart is launching dozens of high-tech warehouses staffed entirely by robots to help it meet the staggering increase in demand for online orders. The automated robots will be used to pick frozen and refrigerated food in small local warehouses across […]

January 25, 2021

Google Cloud has launched a host of new AI-powered ‘Product Discovery Solutions’ for retailers to help them provide “smarter and more personalized shopping experiences”. The technology giant has launched three new solutions using its cutting-edge machine learning-based technologies, aiming to […]

January 21, 2021

At a CES 2021 session featuring privacy experts from Amazon.com, Google and Twitter, panelists agreed that, while data transparency is critical, a “patchwork” of privacy rules across areas may increasingly undermine the benefits of the internet. “We learned [in 2020] […]

January 5, 2021

As anyone who has ever dared to monitor their screen time will know, the average UK adult now spends an average of 3 hours and 23 minutes on their phone every day, equating to roughly 50 days every year. As […]