Sustainable Retail: Addressing the sizing problem

Welcome to the sustainability column that takes a look at what retailing is doing to address the issues in its industry. Much of the ongoing focus will be on fashion but not exclusively. This month’s column takes look at how sizing technology solutions are becoming much more widely used as a way for retailers and…

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Pennies micro-donations overcoming cost-of-living crisis

Micro-donations provider Pennies is helping its retail partners achieve growing volumes of donations at their points of sale from customers despite the cost-of-living crisis. During Q1 2023 volumes of donations increased 47% versus the same quarter in 2022 as large retailers confidently rolled-out the Pennies solution across their estates. In store the software sits on…

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Moving too quickly to a cashless society

Back in mid-2008, food-to-go chain Eat was something of a pioneer as it had installed contactless card readers at each of its tills within its Moorgate branch as a bit of a test. It was looking to roll-out the equipment to more of its units because it had hit the pre-arranged number of contactless transactions…

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