Katie Searles is an editor for InternetRetailing and her work has also appeared in dlvrx. With a focus on the retail industry, Katie covers a range of topics including consumer behavior, e-commerce trends, case studies, and retail news. Her articles provide insights into the strategies and innovations employed by retailers to navigate the ever-changing landscape of online and offline shopping.
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Katie's coverage heavily focuses on retail, logistics, sustainability, and consumer behavior. Her articles often cite data and press releases. To effectively reach out to Katie Searles, consider providing relevant data-driven insights related to retail trends, logistics innovations, sustainable practices in the industry or analyses of consumer behavior.
Additionally, given her focus on product promotions and transportation & logistics themes alongside citing a significant amount of data and press releases she may also be interested in exclusive information regarding new products or promotional strategies from companies within these sectors.
It's apparent that Katie's reporting is not confined by geographic limits as her coverage appears to encompass developments across the UK retail landscape without specific regional constraints.
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By: Katie Searles
Traffic referred to retail sites from Generative AI sources has skyrocketed this year, with momentum building as the holiday season approaches, according to Adobe’s 2024 UK holiday online spending forecast. After maintaining steady volumes earlier in the year, GenAI referrals to retail sites have increased tenfold between July and September 2024. Adobe added that given this […]
By: Katie Searles
Sainsbury’s half year results have been offset by a “tough first quarter at Argos”. Grocery sales were up 5.0% for the for the 28 weeks to 14 September 2024, but Sainsbury’s general merchandise & clothing sales declined by 1.5% and Argos sales were down 5.0%. However, helped by strong Nectar performance, Sainsbury’s underlying operating profit […]
By: Katie Searles
Saran Talasila, Exactly Payment Specialist, unveils the rapid development of the subscription economy and its potential to reshape the retail landscape. In the UK alone, e-commerce accounts for over 30% of total retail sales, with forecasts projecting a growth rate of over 9.49% across the next five years (Statista, 2024). This unprecedented growth trajectory has […]
By: Katie Searles
Saran Talasila, Exactly Payment Specialist, unveils the rapid development of the subscription economy and its potential to reshape the retail landscape.
HMV is set to dedicate a whole floor of its Oxford Street flagship to literature, as it introduces its first standalone book offering. The HMV 363 Bookshop, opening on 18 November 2024, will include over 4,000 titles with literary events to follow in a dedicated performance area. Whilst the Oxford Street flagship is the first […]
Audio-visual retailer Richer Sounds has partnered with Just Eat to enable delivery in under 30 minutes, becoming the first electronics brand on the rapid delivery platform.
DPD has become the first UK parcel delivery company to deploy Ottonomy’s multi-compartment, fully autonomous ‘Locker’ delivery robot. Larger than DPD’s existing autonomous delivery robots, Ottobot has a maximum payload of 70kg, eight separate compartments that can carry parcel of varying sizes and can also facilitate collections. The robot features four-wheel powered swerve drive with […]
In this new video format of InternetRetailing's partner company spotlights, Katie Searles, editor of InternetRetailing, puts questions to Marc Stracuzza, director of portfolio strategy at commercetools.
By: Katie Searles
New data from Adobe has shown click-and-collect utilisation continues to increase, especially as consumers look to avoid delivery delays during the run-up to Christmas. The UK Holiday Forecast 2024 has reported that the collection fulfilment method has been used in 9.8% of orders so far this year. This is up from 2023 when it was […]
By: Katie Searles
Jess O’Dwyer, general manager Europe, Pocketalk, explains why overcoming language barriers is so important for attracting and retaining quality workers. It’s no secret that the major growth in online shopping in the UK has expanded retail logistics and increased the demand for workers. The logistics sector has increasingly turned to foreign workers to plug the […]
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