British department store company John Lewis Partnership is the latest retailer investing in artificial intelligence (AI). The company has undertaken a 100 million pound (about $127 million) partnership with Google Cloud as it moves to push its brands John Lewis and Waitrose further into the digital space, according to a Wednesday (Aug. 9) press release....
One in three U.K. retailers surveyed by PYMNTS plan to add support for scan-and-go payment. The “Instant Payments Transformation Guide: Grocery, Pharmacy And Convenience Retailers,” a PYMNTS and ACI Worldwide collaboration, reveals that 31.5% of retailers in the U.K. plan to add support for scan-and-go...
Deliveroo plans to trial its “Deliveroo Hop” rapid grocery service with supermarket chain Waitrose, Reuters reported Thursday (Feb. 10). Later this month, Waitrose is opening a delivery-only store in Bermondsey, London, which will be the first location that the service is offered from. For those...
The fallout of Brexit has been pretty sobering for Britain. Prices are up, wage growth is down, and both of those have dealt a blow to household spending power – and therefore the economy overall. Retail in general is suffering as consumers pinch pennies. However,...
October 10, 2023
With Amazon reportedly in discussions with Waitrose, eCommerce giant seems to be moving further into the grocery aggregator space, and if these efforts make their way to the U.S., the company could soon wage battle against Instacart. London-based publication The Telegraph reported that Waitrose, a higher-end British supermarket chain, is in talks with Amazon to […]
August 09, 2023
British department store company John Lewis Partnership is the latest retailer investing in artificial intelligence (AI). The company has undertaken a 100 million pound (about $127 million) partnership with Google Cloud as it moves to push its brands John Lewis and Waitrose further into the digital space, according to a Wednesday (Aug. 9) press release. The agreement will see more of the company move onto […]
February 10, 2022
Deliveroo plans to trial its “Deliveroo Hop” rapid grocery service with supermarket chain Waitrose, Reuters reported Thursday (Feb. 10). Later this month, Waitrose is opening a delivery-only store in Bermondsey,...
