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Archive / September, 2014

Click, collect and coffee

House of Fraser and Caffe Nero have announced a joint venture that will see customers shopping online and collecting orders during their coffee break.

Debuting on 16 October 2014 in Cambridge, a Caffe Nero/House of Fraser store will offer coffee downstairs and a click and collect service upstairs. The move apparently made sense, as House of Fraser has no stores in the city of Cambridge.

Downstairs, in Caffe Nero, it will be coffee as usual with the addition of several tablet and touch screen devices

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Tesco cuts IT spend

After successfully introducing a number of digital technologies to the retail space, supermarket giant Tesco is reportedly cutting costs from its IT budget.

Until now Tesco hasn’t been shy in backing digital technology investments. Online grocery shopping for home delivery, augmented reality mirrors in-store, its own 7in tablet, a data-driven loyalty card scheme – the Clubcard, a digital wallet, a magazine app, click and collect and scan as you shop, to name a few.

However, earlier this

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