One in four retail technology providers believe artificial intelligence (AI) is overhyped or actively adding to confusion, according to new research from retail and hospitality technology PR agency ASPR.

According to Online Retail in South Africa 2025, online retail is not simply growing faster; it is fundamentally reshaping the composition of South Africa’s retail economy.

Yaga, a local online resale fashion platform, has raised approximately R80m in a pre-Series A global funding round.

We are in a new world of personalised marketing, driven by consumer data, algorithms and digital platforms where mastering marketing technology (martech) tools is key to success.

One of South Africa’s first daily deals platform, OneDayOnly is celebrating 15 years of offering local consumers discount deals and savings, with nearly 5,500 days of different deals offered.

Neil Schreuder is chief strategy and innovation officer for the Shoprite Group and MD of ShopriteX.

Technology is disrupting every aspect of the ecommerce shopping journey and fundamentally altering consumer behaviour. But the benefits for retailers have accrued unevenly so far.

Discover the future of retail in 2024 with the transformative power of spatial computing.

Would you trust ChatGPT - or the latest evolution in language software, GPT-4 - to pick out your new fridge? I did.

Ecommerce and digitalisation are among the many shifts reshaping the retail sector, often from behind the scenes. Brace yourself - there’s more to come!