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Greendeck is helping brands and retailers with the right competitive intelligence they need, harnessing the power of AI for better pricing, promotions and buying strategies. Retail is difficult. Pricing correctly, marketing and promotions, stocking the right things at the right time, getting the customer experience just right, and generally making all the right decisions. To get it right requir...
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Pukket is aiming to create word of mouth on a large scale, by putting a usable, redeemable value on people’s social media impact when they help to spread word of a brand. Content is king. A brand producing meaningful, engaging, interactable content rather than simply advertising at people finds its message reaching further and being taken on more. However, continually producing content is n...
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You’ve got to spend money to...save money! Why pay for your phone bill when your favourite retailer can do it for you? Startup, Airtime Rewards, lets your favourite retailers pay for your mobile phone bill... Phones are for so much more than just making calls these days - from shopping to watching funny cat videos to self-diagnosing what horrendous disease that mildly itchy nose must b...
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Iceland Innovation Lab launches in collaboration with L Marks, seeking to self-disrupt and embrace digital methods to future-proof business operations and enhance customer experiences. Iceland Plc has launched the Iceland Innovation Lab accelerator programme to help startups grow through partnership and investment. The Iceland Innovation Lab is a step Iceland is taking to ensure that they remain...
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Mercarto wants to give everyone the opportunity of starting their own business via their new eCommerce platform which creates an end-to-end online retail business with no risk and no cost. Founded by entrepreneur Sean Brown, the free, one-stop platform aims to do all the hard work of building a business for you; taking care of web design, sourcing, storage, delivery and payment, with more th...
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Retail can be a volatile industry to be in. Although it is, and always has been, a driving force in the world’s economy, there are always a number of challengers for retailers. Do you open an online store, or physical store, or both? How will you manage stock? What makes you a better choice than your competitors? Will people actually want to buy your stuff? Will they even know you resist, i...
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Following a successful inaugural year which saw robots in centres, chat bots online and queue-jumping apps, intu Accelerate 2018 is once open for applications from startups looking to create the perfect shopping experience. Owner of some of the UK’s largest and most popular shopping centres, such as intu Trafford Centre, intu Lakeside and intu Metrocentre, the 8-week programme will aim to d...
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Warning: the following contains no traces of either brandy or floss. Marketing is one of the most difficult parts of any business in which a product must be sold. In theory, the hardest part of the job should be developing the new product and bringing it to market. In reality, it doesn’t matter how good your product is if no one ever hears about it, or the wrong people are hearing about it,...
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As we all know, the pop-up phenomenon is here to stay and since it offers such a flexible option for retailers, it is easy to see why. It is not always easy however to source a suitable space for your temporary retail endeavours – until now that is. Our latest startup of the week is on a mission to help retailers seeking popup space find the optimum location to match their business’&n...
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Let’s face it - we all love a bargain. The same however can’t be said for joining a lengthy queue in a store or engaging in a tug-of-war with a fellow shopper over that must-have pair of jeans. If only sale shopping was easier… Well, help is now at hand thanks to our latest Startup of the Week. Love the Sales is an online platform which enables you to shop the sales online. ...
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