While e-tailers can use their customers' data to personalise their offerings, brick-and-mortar stores don't always have the same luxury. Retailers now have a chance to up their in-store personalisation, with tech from Samsung letting them track customer behaviour and personalise adverts accordingly.

Has e-commerce killed the high street? Online sales are rising, but 70% of UK students still prefer brick-and-mortar stores. The issue is confused. In an attempt to crack it, we sat down with retail expert John Ryan to ask how and why stores can retain their custom.

Buying furniture can be stressful as you never really know how it’ll look until it’s in your house. Warsaw-based Tylko wants to change that, letting shoppers customise style and dimensions before visualising a piece of furniture at home using AR. Can this approach get armchairs rocking?

About 40% of Hamburg's 1.8 million residents don’t own a car, so IKEA has introduced its first ‘citystore’ – an urban little sister to its sprawling, out-of-town counterparts. It’s already more popular than any other German branch, but who is this inner-city store attracting?