Radishboya, a specialist online supermarket owned by NTT Docomo, is expanding into branded vegetable ranges. Radishboya, the upscale online food delivery service, is introducing branded vegetables this month. The move represents another step forward for online food retailing, although the products remain somewhat experimental and will begin with just five SKUs. The company will emphasise […]
JR West will unveil a new section to its Lucua SC at Osaka Station next Spring, taking over 30,000 sqm of sales space from Isetan-Mitsukoshi. The latter will no longer have a contiguous sales space of its own, forced instead to operate separate sales areas as small stores. Ironically, this may turn out to be […]
NTT Docomo’s fashion e-commerce venture, dfashion, has been operating for six months and is slowly garnering a share of the mobile fashion market – in particular it looks like being a useful source of sales if you sell to men – but faces stiff competition from entrenched players. Magaseek was acquired by NTT Docomo in […]
Apparel e-commerce is an intensely competitive business and getting tougher. This is making life harder than ever for the main catalogue businesses, helping explain Nissen’s decision to accept the embrace of Seven & I Holdings. Competition from big players in apparel e-commerce is intensifying. As well as the old catalogue firms and pure online players, […]
