Happy Birthday To Us!
Yesterday we became 14, and will be celebrating entering our 15th year of trading as ‘Retail Assist’ over the next few months. We are proud and honoured to begin this pivotal year as ‘Company of the...
View ArticleRetail Assist and Jacques Vert win ‘Supply Chain Excellence’ Award
Last week, at a glittering ceremony held at the London Hilton, Retail Assist was awarded the Retail Week Technology Awards ‘Supply Chain Excellence’ award alongside the Jacques Vert Group (JVG.) The...
View ArticleRetail Assist Help Desk Advisory Board
At Retail Assist we are always looking at ways of improving our service provision, and ways of getting closer to the end users of our service, to understand their requirements even further, and gain...
View ArticleShopping In Store vs Shopping Online by Rowen Aston
This week’s blog post was contributed by Rowen Aston, a work experience student that loves to shop. Rowen’s insight into the retail experience offers a unique perspective often not covered in the...
View Article4000
Last week, Retail Assist celebrated reaching over 4000 tills supported for Cybertill - an ‘EPoS Systems and Retail Software provider that gives retailers the tools to trade successfully in store,...
View ArticleInfluencing Sustainable Behaviour
This week’s blog post was contributed by Hannah Tulley, a recent Retail Buying graduate from De Montfort University. In June Hannah started her career as a Garment Technologist for a UK based fashion...
View ArticleFashion Fit For A Prince
Superman logo print baby-grow | Ralph Lauren anchor chino shorts | Petit Bateau knitted cardigan Little Marc Jacobs turn-up chino trousers | Hug Me three-piece | My First Levi’s jeans Last Monday was a...
View ArticleRetail Assist Help Desk Advisory Board Part 2
Last week saw our second Help Desk Advisory Board evening all about ideas, innovation and feedback from users of service on the Help Desk, held at our head office in Nottingham. Once again we welcomed...
View ArticleRetail Assist, Pre-Digital Photography
With Retail Assist now in its 15th year , we’ve been doing some reminiscing. Thanks to a drawer full of pre-digital camera photography we were able to dig out some old snapshots of both our old...
View ArticleGuest Post: “The Latest Trend In Retail”
This week’s blog post was contributed by Ellie Burns, a work experience student with a bright future in Fashion Communications and Promotion. Ellie has her own blog, ‘Ellie’s Favourite Things’ which...
View ArticleGuest Post: “The Latest Twitter Trends Among Retailers”
This week’s blog post was contributed by Ellie Burns, a work experience student with a bright future in Fashion Communications and Promotion. Ellie has her own blog, ‘Ellie’s Favourite Things’ which...
View Article“Smarter Retailing Is In Hand”
At Retail Assist, we have recently had the pleasure of appointing Robin Coles to join our busy team, as our ‘Head of Product Strategy.’ Alongside an unwavering love for Chelsea football club, Robin...
View ArticleNew York Fashion Week
Having worked in close capacity with well-known retailers for the past 14 years, we can’t help but be interested in what it is that inspires some of our favourite looks, and often find ourselves asking...
View ArticleLondon Fashion Week
London Fashion Week took place this weekend, and with this iconic event being so important to the designers of some of our favourite brands (and favourite clients) we were of course glued to the...
View Article100 Days Until Christmas – The Research
As the weeks and days until Christmas become less and less, we have turned our attention to the big day. The shops are already stocking Christmas chocolates (we’re partial to the Dairy Milk Mousse...
View ArticleThe Great Retail Assist Bake Off
On Friday, the Nottingham office kicked off a company wide ‘bake off,’ a tasty way to raise money for charity whilst celebrating having entered our 15th year of trading. The day was a great success,...
View ArticleRetail Assist Wins Third Award Of The Year
Last week, Retail Assist was awarded ‘Supplier of the Year’ at the Bidvest Logistics and 3663 internal awards. This is the second year we’ve been awarded by the group, and the third time we have been...
View ArticleA Vintage Promotional Video
Retail Assist entered its 15th year of trading this year, and as part of the celebration we’ve been digging through our archives for vintage marketing materials. Whilst watching old promotional videos...
View ArticleLondon Film Festival
There are two reasons we love film festivals: the glamour, and the excuse to eat copious amounts of popcorn in front of a really good movie. This week, we are being given an excuse to enjoy both of...
View ArticleInternational Shopping Trends
Working within retail on an international basis, and adapting to all of the different traditions within retail worldwide, is both challenging and extremely interesting. We are proud to support...
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