House of Fraser has cancelled all online orders and is refunding customers in the face of an impasse in its payments dispute with XPO, which operates its distribution centres at Milton Keynes and Wellingborough.
All work has stopped at the House of Fraser warehouse at Wellingborough as a result of a dispute between operator XPO Logistics and Sports Direct, which bought the HoF business last week. The retailer’s web site is currently down as a result.
Work has begun on B&M Retail’s 1,000,000 sq ft regional distribution hub facility in Wixams, Bedford worth £39 million.
Royal Mail is trialling parcel post boxes that would allow customers to post pre-paid parcels in the same way that they currently post letters.
Online retail saw 16.8 per cent year-on-year growth during the first half of 2018, according to the Capgemini IMRG eRetail Sales Index.
Sports Direct acquired House of Fraser for £90 million within hours of the department store group going into administration on 10th August.
Indonesian department store retailer Matahari is to deploy a warehouse management solution from Manhattan Associates in five of its distribution centres.
Marks & Spencer is to use Doddle technology on its existing in-store devices to enable customers to return goods at its Simply Food stores.
Amazon UK Services, the company that operates the retailer’s fulfilment centres in the UK, increased its turnover by 36 per cent to £1.99 billion last year.
Kingfisher is to install batteries at B&Q’s Swindon distribution centre which will be able to store about 40 per cent of the electricity generated by solar panels on the roof.
