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  • Ocado begins move into non-food business

    The online delivery service is adding a range of toys to its business in time for Christmas, as it continues with its goal of making this year its first profitable year in eight years of trading

  • Excellent Idea

    BT is working with B2B distribution company Bybox to create a nationwide network of automated delivery centres. The new 'box banks' would allow shoppers to have their internet orders delivered to a secure, high traffic location near their home or work from which they could collect their parcels at their convenience

  • BT Drop Box

    BT is working with B2B distribution company Bybox to create a nationwide network of automated delivery centres. The new 'box banks' would allow shoppers to have their internet orders delivered to a secure, high traffic location near their home or work from which they could collect their parcels at their convenience

  • Kiddicare reports 30% reduction in missed deliveries with SMS notifications

    Nursery goods supplier Kiddicare says its carded missed delivery rate is dramatically down, customer satisfaction is up and delivery costs are down since it began using text messages to notify customers of their delivery time

  • Volumes will be up this Christmas, says Amazon UK MD

    It will be another best selling Xmas, Amazon UK's managing director has told The Sunday Times, with sales volumes reaching over one million items on the busiest day of the year

  • [Editorial] Tesco and Amazon play the green card

    InternetRetailing.net's web editor, Sarah Clark, on the day's news...

  • A recipe for success? Ocado and John Lewis cook up Waitrose deliveries plan

    The John Lewis Partnership and Ocado have had their ups and downs when it comes to working out the future of Waitrose deliveries. Now the two companies think they've come up with a way to move forward that gives each the chance to handle Waitrose deliveries just the way they want them. Will it work?

  • Ocado launches subscription-based delivery service

    Ocado on Demand customers pay a flat fee to get all their deliveries for free over a pre-set period of time

  • Ocado and TescoDirect: reminding us that delivery matters

    With the launch of TescoDirect the results from Ocado, the home-delivery food retailer, based on Waitrose stock, give pause for thought in this "battle for the doorstep"...

  • [Editorial] Punish a retailer for £5, yet too lazy to take £80m in savings

    Retailers know how they are punished for falling off the 'first page' of Price Comparison engines by a drop in sales, yet recently-released research from Pricerunner shows that customers are " One in five Britons will not get out of bed to save a tenner on a purchase and one in ten would rather stay on the sofa than bank £50". As retailers screw their margins to insignificance in order to shift product via price comparison, and to 'close the sale' online, what are we to make of this behaviour?

  • Are supermarkets failing to deliver the goods?

    A mystery-shopper test has revealed that not one of five online supermarkets tested could deliver all of the items on a shopping list. This "dismal service" was just one of 11 checks made on leading supermarket sites including Tesco, Ocado and Asda.

  • Will you be carrying the turkey home from the supermarket?

    In many parts of the country, consumers hoping to order their Christmas food supplies online have already missed the boat. Demand is already outstripping supply to the point that Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Ocado have already all but filled up their pre-Christmas fresh produce delivery slots.

  • Customers still take time out to receive deliveries

    Online shoppers waited up to 72 hours for delivery over the Christmas period, according to research by ByBox (a company which owns a network of drop-off boxes).

  • Parceline introduces delivery date choice by SMS

    Delivery company Parceline has introduced an interactive SMS messaging service which offers home shopping customers a choice of delivery dates for their parcels.

  • BT Drop Box

    BT is working with B2B distribution company Bybox to create a nationwide network of automated delivery centres. The new 'box banks' would allow shoppers to have their internet orders delivered to a secure, high traffic location near their home or work from which they could collect their parcels at their convenience

  • BT backs nationwide network of hi-tech delivery boxes

    BT is working with B2B distribution company Bybox to create a nationwide network of automated delivery centres. The new 'box banks' would allow shoppers to have their internet orders delivered to a secure, high traffic location near their home or work from which they could collect their parcels at their convenience

  • Amazon to bring greener and easier to open packaging to UK

    A new initiative designed to both make it easier for consumers to liberate products from their packages and to be more environmentally friendly is to be expanded into the UK market next year

  • Home delivery continues to grow, but in-store collection gains ground

    Online shopping will continue to drive growth in the home delivery market but this may be about to stall as the success of stores' click 'n' collect services gather momentum, says a new report from Verdict Research

  • Amazon and Tesco target Xmas gift buyers with free shipping — but M&S drops its delivery offer

    Amazon.co.uk has dropped its eligibility requirements for free shipping to only £5 whilst Tesco Direct is introducing free delivery to stores on orders of £25 and above and to homes on orders over £50. Marks and Spencer, though, has dropped the free shipping on all orders it introduced last month. Is free delivery set to be the online battleground this Christmas?

  • Parcelnet finds fulfillment unfulfilling

    The company is to concentrate on its core home delivery business and will phase out its fulfillment activities. Next day deliveries and a new hub are on the way

  • Is there a trend emerging?

    Ocado on Demand customers pay a flat fee to get all their deliveries for free over a pre-set period of time

  • Splash aims higher in battle for bathroom dominance

    Switching over to a new ecommerce solution can be hairy.  Bathroom accessories supplier Splash Direct, though, has been flushed with success since migrating to a new system nine months ago and is now bursting to tell other etailers its three keys to spending pennies wisely...

  • cost?

    Online purchases from Marks & Spencer can now be delivered to addresses in France, Germany, Spain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

  • IR's Weekend Web Crawl: Black Friday and Cyber Monday

    It's Black Friday today, the day that Americans traditionally begin their christmas shopping and retailers release their seasonal offers. And, after the weekend, there's Cyber Monday, when the best online offers should be found. IR's been doing a little long-distance window shopping to see what US retailers are doing to beat the crunch...

  • M&S launches international delivery service

    Online purchases from Marks & Spencer can now be delivered to addresses in France, Germany, Spain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

  • Casino enters UK internet retailing market with Cdiscount.co.uk

    The French retail giant is making its first foray into the UK market with the launch of a British version of its highly successful non-food online discounter

  • [Editorial] In search of a parcel carrier that delivers something more

    InternetRetailing.net's web editor, Sarah Clark, on the day's news...

  • Business Post steps in as parcel delivery firm collapses

    Nine hundred jobs are set to go as Amtrak is wound up after it ceased trading for the second time in two years. Online retailing customers such as dabs.com will experience some delivery delays but no orders are expected to be lost

  • Psst, don't tell anyone but Asda Direct is all stocked up and ready to go

    Just last week it seemed the launch of Asda's new non-food catalogue and ecommerce service was being put back until nearer the end of this year. Then New Media Age had an odd report on Monday indicating the launch of a George.com transactional website was being put back indefinitely. But a quick visit to George.com to see what might be going on led to something that looks very much like a fully fledged Asda Direct website — and customer services confirms the site is now in a 'soft launch'...

  • Aldi and DHL join up to deliver home shopping solution

    Hundreds of Aldi stores across Germany are to be equipped with hi-tech unmanned parcel delivery and pick-up units. Could automated lock-up boxes like these, located at high traffic retail locations, be the future of internet delivery?

  • Asos seeks to make a wedge from platforms

    The etailer is planning to turn itself into the Amazon of fashion by introducing a platform for the sale of second-hand items and for independent boutiques to sell their wares

  • Boots redesigns website, launches Order & Collect service in South Wales and Tyne & Wear

    Boots has become the latest retailer to introduce a 'reserve online, collect in-store' service as part of a major online push that includes a new-look website and a promised steady roll-out of new features over the coming months

  • Snow Valley's annual Online Retail Delivery Report now out

    The ecommerce specialist placed orders with 107 retailers to find out who offers what kind of delivery service — and if the deliveries live up to their promises

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