In our final newsletter of 2016 the Mixing Digital and Ecommerce Club team would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We look forward to seeing you all again in 2017 refreshed and jolly! at our Ecommerce Club London lunch on Tuesday 31st of January from 12:30pm to 3:00pm at Gaucho Piccadilly with Ingenuity Digital. Please register here
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Have a wonderful festive holiday and please note that Mixing Digital and the Ecommerce Club will be closed between Friday 16th December and Wednesday 4th January.
Marks & Spencer is officially Britons favourite Christmas shop, with almost a third of shoppers planning to spend the most at Marks & Spencer this December
Marks & Spencer is officially Britons favourite Christmas shop, with almost a third of shoppers planning to spend the most at Marks & Spencer this December. A study, from Rakuten Marketing, shows that consumers placed Boots in second position and John Lewis in third place with shoppers intending to spend the most as these stores in the run up to Christmas.
Verifone has joined forces with MasterCard to roll out a new instalment pay application to retailers in the UK which will let customers pay for large purchases over a period of time.
Verifone has joined forces with MasterCard to roll out a new instalment pay application to retailers in the UK which will let customers pay for large purchases over a period of time. MasterCard Instalments will be the first app of its kind in the UK.
For millions WhatsApp will soon stop working. Support to older phones will be cut off and they will no longer be able to use the free chat app
For millions WhatsApp will soon stop working. Support to older phones will be cut off and they will no longer be able to use the free chat app. WhatsApp announced the change earlier this year and said then that it would be implemented before the New Year starts.
Amazon has plans to open a grocery shop without checkouts, customers will pay instead via an app for their shopping.
Amazon has plans to open a grocery shop without checkouts, customers will pay instead via an app for their shopping. The shopping experience appropriately called Just Walk Out uses some of the same tech as self-driving cars. The system tracks when items are taken and placed back on shelves and tracks them in the virtual shopping trolley. The shopper will be charged directly to their Amazon account and will receive a receipt at that point.
