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Bosses at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway the Bristol shopping centre launched a free iPad and iPhone app enabling shoppers to make the best of their visit. The app gives access to mall stores’ latest promotions and offers, helps to contact and locate different stores and updates events that are taking place at the mall. By putting . . . → Read More: The Mall at Cribbs Causeway makes shopping easier  In order to help customers locate stock and navigate around their stores, Tesco is running a pilot that uses sat-nav technology. The supermarket giant is experimenting with the technology using iPhones and iPads but the system is only available currently to Android users in northeast London Tesco Extra Gallows Corner, Romford. Head of Research and development (R&D) . . . → Read More: Use Tesco’s new sat-nav to get around the supermarket In an attempt to boost their online and non-food business Sainsbury is doubling the size of their service of multichannel click and collect. At more than 300 locations the supermarket offers their customers the opportunity to order online non-food items and then the next day pick them up in stores. In June it will include 100 more . . . → Read More: Free advance ordering expanded by Sainsbury’s The city centre of Dunfermline will be full of smiles as this weekend, as Happy Saturday, for the first time hits High Street. Dance, Music, comedy interludes, dad’s zone and flashmobs will all be a part of the fun of the feel good factor designed for the family around the town. At different locations in intervals the . . . → Read More: Happy Saturday in Dunfermline A new shopping discount scheme was launched on May 21m 2011 in Market Square Waltham Abbey and is know as WASP (Waltham Abbey Special Promotions.) The scheme is designed to encourage local people through vouchers to use the local shops and services. The Waltham Abbey Town Council organized the scheme in cooperation with the Town Centre Business . . . → Read More: Waltham Abbey Special Promotions A new start-up, FreeMonee, was launched on May 11 and claims to give consumers free money to purchase goods at selected stores and say they are the first of a kind in the retail sector. The start-up was founded by ex-Visa executive Jim Taschette and ex-eBay executive Mike Linton. The cash-gift self-styled national network works the following . . . → Read More: FreeMonee for buying stuff Regent Street Royal Wedding Union Flags To mark the Royal Wedding a large display of 125 union flags will line Regent Street from April 21st until May 2nd from the Piccadilly Circus south end over past the Oxford Circus and BBC building on the north end. The flags will be hung from 25 different crosses . . . → Read More: Royal Wedding, Regent Street Union Flags Depending upon where you live in the U.K. you are probably paying a lot more or a good bit less for retail goods than the national average. According to a recent report from price comparison sites Kelkoo and Verdict, the difference on an eclectic group of 200 items could be £500 or more. The data was based . . . → Read More: Huge retail price differences in different parts of the country For customers that are spending £40 or more at their stores from now until May 8, Morrison’s is knocking off 6p per litre of diesel or petrol. This deal, known as Fuel Britannia would be better than recent ones introduced by The Co-operative Group and Sainsbury’s, said Morrison’s With the amount of disposable income off £100 a . . . → Read More: Morrison’s offer their shoppers cheap petrol Forecast to hit £37bn a year before 2014 online retail is growing at a pace of six times faster than high street according to recent surveys. This rapid sales growth is hitting high street hard and they are struggling to stay competitive with over 40,000 stores closing their doors in the last 10 years. Customers are placing . . . → Read More: Online shopping starting to crush the High street |
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