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If you like haggling, you'll like this - London-based startup Nibble has created an AI-powered eCommerce chatbot to enable customers to negotiate a personalised price. We recently wrote about Starter Barter, a startup with a platform to allow people to bring back the old-fashioned system of bartering, providing a service for a service. But another integral part of many transactions, which is no...
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  The lowdown on Sellalong, the circular economy startup making it easier for retailers and shoppers alike to recirculate clothes. How many times have you worn something, or used an item once or twice and then thrown it away? With recent research showing that 70% of household items currently go directly to landfill, startup Sellalong have created a much needed and timely solution via a syst...
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The lowdown on Go Banana, the online platform making it easier for both the trade and the public to source, compare prices and buy building supplies. Whether you are a builder, plumber, carpenter, electrician, painter-decorator, or just a DIY enthusiast, you need tools and supplies. These aren’t exactly difficult to source, and you will likely already have your favourite shortlist of sup...
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The lowdown on Dressipi, the startup that's using AI and machine learning to transform how fashion retailers engage with their customers. Some people love shopping, and some people hate it. Either way, when you need clothes, it would be nice if you were only looking at the kinds of things that actually interest you, rather than pushing aside dozens of items you wouldn’t look at twice to g...
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Glimpse is a Dublin-based startup that has created an innovative solution to provide physical retail stores with accurate shopper insights and data. Online retailers have all kinds of analytics to keep an eye on the people shopping with them, to help them understand what those shoppers are doing and when, and to use these insights to better target their customers’ needs. To a degree, new ...
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The lowdown on Dent Reality, the London-based augmented reality startup that's innovating the retail sector via phone-based AR navigation. The world was already well on its way to making reality and the digital world overlap even before the pandemic came along and made our lives more digital. One of the earliest and most relevant examples of this is GPS - a digital copy of the roads we’re...
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Tesco and RangeMe partnership presents new opportunity for British suppliers to market their brands and grow their retail relationships The UK’s largest grocer Tesco has just announced details of a new partnership with RangeMe , the world’s largest product sourcing platform, with the aim of providing its product buying teams with access to the most relevant products its customers d...
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The innovative NI startup Scanmatix wins over the judges to secure the Work: In Progress startup pitch accolade and the £1500 cash prize. After a competitive startup pitching event at Work: In Progress, with 8 early stage startups from across the island of Ireland taking part, Scanmatix, the NI-based complementary retail technology platform was selected as the overall winner, taking home ...
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  Never forget someone's birthday again thanks to Prsnt, the gifting app that enables users to source and send instant presents via text! As we all know, it's been a pretty challenging time for the retail sector recently, so we love seeing startups that are creating innovative ways to help - startups just like UK-based Prsnt. Going live after a successful beta testing phase, Prsnt is an ins...
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The startup that's on a mission to help us all shop more sustainably online thanks to The Beagle Button, its innovative browser extension Sustainability. It’s good. It’s vital, in fact, and is slowly becoming more of a part of people’s everyday lives. But it can be tricky to ensure that the products you are buying and the companies you are buying from are actually sustainable,...
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