The release of a new research project has revealed the 3 main reasons why internet consumers choose to abandon online orders. The three culprits are listed as security concerns, overlong forms and enforced sign ups. The research, published by Postcode Anywhere, was compiled from a survey of 1,000 internet shoppers. Respondents were simply asked why [...]

Marks and Spencer have been fined £1million for potentially exposing staff and customers to asbestos in one of its retail outlets. The high street retailer was taken to court by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after it was found that construction workers at their Reading store were not given the proper time and space [...]

Sofa retailer ScS has announced that it will soon be selling carpets in its network of retail outlets. Based in Sunderland, the sofa retailer will initially begin selling carpets in its ten stores in the North East, before launching a nationwide roll-out of the service in the near future. The company has appointed Charles Coombs, [...]

Aurora Fashions, the company behind high street fashion outlets Oasis, Coast, Karen Millen and Warehouse, will allow customers to purchase goods in store using a revolutionary iPad enabled point of sale system. The fashion retail owner said the new system offered customers a better service across all channels by enabling the sales team to access [...]

John Lewis claimed a quieter last week, with sales only increasing by 2.9% on the same week last year. It seems that the school uniform rush dropped off significantly to bring about the change. Online sales managed to rise by 23.3% and Edinburgh performed best of the stores with sales up by 5.7% followed by [...]

Morrisons has revealed plans to open the first of several ‘stores of the future’ in 2012, at Tunbridge Wells. The shop is due to open in Easter and will be the first of its new era stores in the South East. Morrisons has embraced a more flexible store format since Dalton Philips, the group’s new [...]

Westfield Stratford City shopping centre has welcomed over one million customers through its doors in its first week of business. The brand new shopping mall, which has opened close to the 2012 Olympic Park in East London, is one of the largest urban shopping centres in Europe, covering over 1.8 million square feet. It is [...]

Bakery chain Greggs is set to become the latest high street retailer to introduce contactless payment technology in its outlets across the country. Greggs is working in conjunction with Lloyds TSB to roll out the new technology to its network of 1500 shops all over the UK. The technology has been designed by Spire Payments [...]

The JD Sports sportswear retailer has announced a rise in profits of 21% for the half year to the end of July. The sports retail group enjoyed a pre tax profit of £20.1million within the period, up from £16.6million in the same period last year.  Sales went up to £439.8million, an increase of 14.6%. The [...]

Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has unveiled a range of in-store signs to help blind and partially sighted customers in one of its Liverpool branches. A range of new Braille signage has been launched for the food and drinks range in the Woolton branch, and is thought that this is the first supermarket in the UK to [...]