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High street brands yet to embrace e-commerce
News Major high street brands are still failing to make the leap online -- with more than half the big name shops in town centres across Britain still on a "watching brief" regarding e-commerce. Sixty percent of UK high street brands are yet to embrace...
[June 17, 2003, 13:40]
High-street music stores may tune into Net music
News We want to be as successful on the Net as we are in the high street. Bell believes it is too early to say how Internet buying and downloading of music will affect high street sales. The music retailer has inked a deal with IBM to develop its Web...
[February 15, 1999, 15:11]
High Street stores fail Web test
News Leading high street stores, including WHSmith, PC World and Dixons, have been accused by the Consumers' Association of providing a significantly inferior Internet service to online-only retailers. High street shops have been expecting people to...
[November 7, 2001, 17:24]
High-street ID card plan won't work, MPs say
News Plans to cut £1bn from the cost of the ID cards project by making people enrol on the high street could be unworkable, after a government report warned the process could be vulnerable to fraud. The cost of providing ID cards and biometric passports...
[July 10, 2009, 11:31]
High-street plan for ID card enrolment
News Under the plans, customers will be able to use the high-street outlets to scan their fingerprints and facial photographs that will be stored on microchips in the cards or biometric visas and the central National Identity Register database.
[May 6, 2009, 16:07]
Business broadband demos hit the high street
News Eleven Maplin stores are offering the demonstrations: Belfast, Bradford, Brighton, Cheltenham, Chester, Coventry, Leicester, London Queensway, Sheffield Pinestone Street, Watford and Westcliff. BTopenworld claims the venture will help to combat the...
[October 10, 2002, 11:35]
Online banks to force high-street price cuts, says study
News Online banks will force high-street branches in Europe to cut costs dramatically over the next three years, according to a study to be published by US investment bank JP Morgan on Monday. The study indicates that the number of Europeans banking via...
[June 5, 2000, 11:08]
Amazon takes on a high street flavour
News Etailer giant Amazon is increasing its offline presence with a deal to sell books and videos via high-street store Borders. Initially just in the US, the deal means Amazon customers will be able to pick up and return items, which they have bought...
[November 28, 2002, 14:37]
Hutchison takes 3G onto the high street
News The stores, located on Oxford Street and High Street Kensington in London and in Central Birmingham, will allow people to trial a 3G phone and to use 3 -- Hutchison 3G's service. The British public will get the chance to experience a third...
[October 16, 2002, 13:50]
E-commerce will kill the high street - report
News Unless traditional retailers adapt quickly, the high street will be replaced by its ever powerful virtual adversary a new report warns Friday. Some of the conventional high street chains, like Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury's, are already in trouble.
[January 24, 2000, 15:06]
Web retailer alleges anti-Internet high-street conspiracy
News Britain's traditional high-street stores are feeling the pinch from their online rivals and have resorted to bullying suppliers and manufactures not to supply online traders, according to one Web based company.
[April 28, 2000, 11:02]
Free email kiosks hit the high street
News The UK's first outdoor email service, which will allow users to send free emails 24 hours a day from high street kiosks, launched on Thursday. A spokeswoman for the company said that it was working on an inbox facility so that users would be able...
[March 10, 2000, 15:17]
Dixons ditches high street for the Web
News Dixons will move off the high street and exist purely as an online retailer, Dixons Services Group announced on Wednesday. Electrical goods retailer DSG said that it will rebrand its high street Dixons stores as Currys.digital, and move the Dixons...
[April 5, 2006, 12:50]
Experts question high-street ID card enrolment
News Security and legal experts have questioned the viability of a government plan to capture biometrics in high-street shops for its ID card scheme. That means it requires a high level of protection, which high-street stores do not have the culture to...
[May 7, 2009, 16:54]
Home secretary defends high-street biometrics plans
News Home secretary Jacqui Smith has insisted biometrics taken from people in high-street businesses will be secure. While anti-ID campaigners have said it will be almost impossible to lock fingerprints to biographical details in a secure manner if...
[November 7, 2008, 16:34]
M&S tops High Street web ranking
Blog We wouldn't stand for this on the high street, and it's a safe bet that this year's Christmas e-shoppers won't tolerate it online either. Hats off to Marks and Spencer, which has scooped the title of the UK's most user-friendly Web site.
[November 24, 2006, 15:44]
Time's Tiny takeover signals high street battle
News UK computer retailer Time's takeover of collapsed rival Tiny is likely to lead to a high street battle with Dixons and its PC World chain by this summer. Time has already announced that it intends to rebrand itself as The Computer World, offering a...
[January 31, 2002, 14:44]
E-shoppers put faith in high street names
News Traditional high street retailers will take a big slice of this Christmas's Internet shopping bonanza, according to the results of a survey from Directline.com. It is somewhat ironic that high street retailers seem likely to rake in a lot of this...
[December 2, 2003, 12:45]
Public rejects high-street enrolment for ID cards
News Despite the findings, however, two weeks ago home secretary Jacqui Smith indicated her intention to press ahead with high-street enrolment. Enrolment should be able to happen at the convenience of the customer, on the high street, at the nearest...
[November 17, 2008, 7:09]
Orange to review high-street strategy
News Orange has revealed it is reviewing its high-street strategy, particularly with regard to the big two phone chains Carphone Warehouse and Phones4u. Vodafone must be pretty confident in Phones4u's potential as a sales channel if it's willing to turn...
[October 13, 2006, 12:55]
