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Retail Asia20/08/2021

Now that it’s officially swallowed the lion’s share of online retail sales, Amazon is reportedly eyeing ways to corner our offline shopping, too. The e-commerce giant is drumming up plans to open “several” department-style stores in a handful of cities across the U.S. People familiar with the matter told the paper that these stores would […]

Retail Asia21/04/2021

To add pictures or videos to your albums in Google Photos, you’ll need to be online. But that’s about to change, as Google is now rolling out a small update that makes it possible to upload content to albums even when a user is offline. The new feature isn’t something that you can force on your Android […]

Retail Asia18/02/2021

Word that YouTube TV might allow users to download shows for offline view surfaced a few days ago. Today, the company announced several premium features that will be available for all users of the streaming service. First and foremost, YouTube TV will introduce a new add-on package with 4K streaming, offline viewing, and unlimited concurrent streams at home. […]

Retail Asia17/02/2021

Most streaming services allow their users to download content for offline watching, which is especially helpful while on the go. Spotify and HBO both offer this option to their customers, but not YouTube TV, at least not for the moment. The good news is Google plans to add this nifty feature to the Android app. Apparently, […]

Retail Asia27/03/2020

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E-commerce platform JD has helped boost bookstore sales in China during the coronavirus outbreak. Last month, sales of two children’s bookstores – Caldecott Bookstore and Zhongshang Children’s Books – increased by 221.6 percent and 282 percent respectively, year on year. According to JD, the increased bookstore sales in China are attributed to consumers staying home […]

Retail Asia30/04/2019

Don’t mention the so-called ‘Retail Apocalypse’ to AS Watson Group MD Dominic Lai. An ardent enthusiast in new-generation retail technology, he heads a company that has just celebrated its 15,000th physical store opening. And that network expansion is showing no signs of slowing, with a new store opening on average every seven hours for the […]

Retail Asia17/01/2019

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Walmart China has pledged to further its online/offline integration strategy with increased focus on fresh food distribution, private brands and membership services. The firm’s president and CEO Tan Wern-Yuen said the business will focus on “consolidating its upstream resources and to further improve product quality”. The firm is set to invest more than RMB700 million […]

Retail Asia23/04/2018

Fashionally.com, an HKTDC-endorsed website that promotes Hong Kong fashion, is organising a retail event at PMQ in Central from next Friday. The 23 Senses event will be held over three weeks to introduce Hong Kong designers and new labels including SFZ Sons, a collaboration between Sonic Lam and street artist Start From Zero, and YMDH […]

Retail Asia01/12/2017

Recently, Nike chief executive Mark Parker fired a reverberating shot across the bow of the entire retail industry. He announced that out of Nike’s global universe of more than 30,000 retail partners the brand would, going forward, focus its time, attention and capital on forty — FORTY — retailers that Nike calls “strategic wholesale partners.” Partners, he […]

Retail Asia22/01/2017

Asia’s e-commerce platform, Qoo10, has launched a GPS-enabled mobile game called MameGo! in Singapore. The game, which was developed by Qoo10, is available on Qoo10’s online marketplace as well as its Qoo10 and Live10 mobile apps. Nearly similar to Pokemon Go!, the game issues three Mameballs to Qoo10 shoppers on a daily basis to […]

Retail Asia25/06/2016

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has teamed up with the country’s second largest mobile carrier, China Unicom, to expand its sales through offline retailing channels. The partnership with Unicom signals a move to a more conventional sales operation for Xiaomi, whose sales have been heavily relied on internet channels. Xiaomi launched a new customized 4G smartphone […]

Retail Asia10/01/2016

Innovations in technology are predicted to make progressive strides related to online and offline commerce, thus improving the retail experience significantly in 2016. With new developments like Google’s Physical Web and Eddystone, we’ve started to get a glimpse of what the future might look like in a perfect online to offline marketing world. But is […]

Retail Asia06/05/2015

Smart brands are quickly moving beyond simple eCommerce, using omni-channel retail to maximise their sales and customer relations. New from Australia, Booodl is a smart shopping list which helps consumers get the most out of their physical shopping trips by connecting the online and offline worlds. Booodl is a smartphone app that notifies consumers when […]

Tag: #offline

Amazon to test department stores in offline expansion

Google Photos now lets users add media files to albums when they’re offline

YouTube TV confirms 4K streaming support and offline viewing option

YouTube TV might soon allow users to download shows for offline watching

JD offers a helping hand to boost bookstore sales in China

Omnichannel key to AS Watson Group success

Walmart China to boost offline, online integration

Offline sales activities for Fashionally.com

Nike shapes announces a new era for retail

Qoo10 bridges the gap between online and offline retail in Singapore

Xiaomi taps China Unicom to boost offline sales

How online and offline will dominate retail in Asia in 2016

Smart shopping list concept debuts