Overall, UK retail sales were 1.1% higher in January 2009 than January 2008…

Littlewoods, Great Universal, Empire, Kays, Marshall Ward, Additions — and potentially Woolworths — will all be run from one unified ATG ecommerce platform

The retailer is getting everything right when it comes to customer reviews and ratings, says Bazaarvoice, and last month managed to pick up 70,000 reviews in just one day

Both Borders and Canadian Tire have taken the decision that ecommerce may not be the answer for them — instead, they will invest in driving traffic to their stores

Dairy Crest is rolling out nationally its service that lets customers order goods online for delivery by their milkman

A partnership agreement between the UK’s mydeco.com and Furniture.com from the US will see the two companies working together to promote each other to shoppers in each location

Retailers are still offering a fragmented experience with inconsistent service levels and value propositions, say the authors of a new report, and are failing to live up to consumers’ multi-channel expectations

Online retailers are redesigning their web sites with a close eye on the bottom line, a new survey from Internet Retailer has found

Thousands of own-label items will be available online from Tesco’s new dedicated clothing website when it launches later this year

The world’s largest internet retailer has posted an 18% increase in sales for the last quarter and has announced it is to start selling non-perishable groceries online in the UK

US shoe retailer Zappos has become the latest to try out a new way of letting shoppers browse merchandise online

Shop Direct Group has acquired the Woolworths brand name from the administrators and will re-launch it as an online-only store

Originally due to launch early in 2009, Figleaves’ much anticipated new website has hit teething problems and will not now go live until April