The wet weather of the past week might not be to everybody’s liking, but it can take credit for boosting John Lewis sales, according to reports. Sales for the week ending 23 July were up 7.1% on last year at John Lewis, and it is believed that the week’s miserable weather was responsible for driving [...]

Traffic to online retail sites was up by around 27 per cent in the second quarter of 2011, recent figures have shown. The latest research conducted by Google and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) shows that the biggest factor in the increase of online retail traffic was down to the number of people browsing online [...]

Independent wine merchant Spirited Wines has become the UK’s first wine retailer to launch marketing solutions specifically catered to mobile phone users. The Cheshire based retailer turned to Mobileweb Company, specialists in mobile marketing and services, to develop and launch their new mobile marketing solution, and many are expected to follow. Mobileweb’s brand new m.Discovery [...]