Welcome to this week’s edition of eFocus, RepricerExpress’ weekly look at the top ecommerce stories and latest Amazon news from around the Web.
Amazon takes aim at UK supermarkets with launch of Pantry service: Sarah Butler at The Guardian reports that Amazon has launched a next-day delivery service for groceries which charges by the box. The first box costs £2.99 with further boxes charged at 99p. The Pantry service is already available in the US, Japan, Germany and Austria, to Prime members. Prime members can fill a Pantry box with up to 20kg of groceries from a list of 4,000 items including food and drink, household supplies, pet care and health and beauty products. Continue reading…
Amazon’s innovation marketplace launches in the UK: Kirsty Styles at The Next Web reports that Amazon’s Launchpad is now live, giving shoppers access to start-ups in hardware, well-being and food. A lot of the current listings are US companies but UK companies like smartphone manufacturer Wileyfox are selling on the site. Amazon sees this an opportunity for customers to connect with start-ups and discover the “stories behind the products they buy”. Continue reading…
17 ways to personalize ecommerce for four types of customer: Ben Davis at Econsultancy reports on their latest Conversion Rate Optimisation report, which revealed only 22% of respondents had implemented website personalisation. Every company has its own explanation for this lag, but broadly speaking it seems to be due to cost and the fact that website personalisation has been more difficult to implement than some other software-as-a-service (36% viewed it as very difficult to implement in our 2015 CRO study). Continue reading…
Royal Mail deploy 2D bar codes at Post Offices: Chris Dawson at Tamebay has revealed that the Royal Mail have announced the launch of 2D bar-coding of parcels at Post Office branches. Around 8,000 of the 11,500 total Post Office branches are now using Royal Mail 2D bar-codes, with the remaining Post Office branches set to adopt Royal Mail’s 2D barcodes early next year. Continue reading…
Black Friday is unprofitable and unsustainable, says a third of retailers: Chloe Rigby at Internet Retailing reports that almost a third of retailers think Black Friday is unprofitable and unsustainable. The Omnichannel Journey report from LCP Consulting found that 31% of more than 100 UK and US retailers that it questioned alongside a number of European traders, agreed or agreed strongly with the statement that ‘Black Friday is an unprofitable and unsustainable promotion’. Meanwhile, 38% disagreed (13% strongly). Continue reading…
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