Latest retail news headlines
Retail crime to cost £4 billion each year*The Retail Bulletin’s 3rd Loss Prevention Summit 2012 will help retailers tackle the increasingly complex problem of crime and shrinkage across channels. |
Product news:Sage Pay introduces ‘first complete mobile card payment solution for the UK’The payment processor has announced the introduction of a new mobile payment solution aimed at small businesses. |
Comment: 5 top tips for increasing website conversion rates and salesAs online shopping increases, expectation from consumers increases even faster - as does the amount of competition fighting for that consumer business. By Kevin Sparks |
Retailers need to fundamentally transform their customer relationship modelsIn the more than 20 years since Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems were being first discussed there has been little progress made in retailers gaining the sought after 360 degree longitudinal views of their customers. By Glynn Davis |
MICROS Systems, Inc. to acquire Torex Retail Holdings Ltd.The company says that Torex's position in the UK and Europe will 'support MICROS's strategy of international expansion in the retail market'. |
Poundland celebrates its 400th store openingPoundland, Europe’s biggest single price discount retailer, is proud to be celebrating a milestone in 2012 with the opening of its 400th store in Haringey, London on Saturday 28 April. |
Product news: Luxury fashion website Cocosa selects Realex Payments for their payment processingWorking with over 500 brands, Cocosa sells designer clothes and accessories in time limited sales. |
Fraud up by 30% in first quarter of 2012Rocketing fraud levels driven by data warns CIFAS |
Product: Barclaycard helps its small business retail customers trade online securelyBarclaycard and Powa Technologies have today announced that they have teamed up to launch a new service to help Barclaycard's small business customers trade online in a secure and optimised way. |
M-payments – becoming essentialA new Retailbulletin/ResearchFarm report, “The future of mobile payments 2012” finds that there is hardly a topic that currently generates and receives as much hype as mobile payments. |

















