The United Kingdom

Iceland is the UK's top supermarket for online shopping, according to a recent survey of more than 7,000 shoppers. With 77%, the British supermarket chain earned the highest score among online supermarkets for the first time. The relatively new online service outranked more experienced rivals such as Waitrose or Ocado.

Renting clothes instead of buying them could become part of the British high street. One in five people in the United Kingdom are interested in renting items from their favorite store, a figure that rises to one in three within London. Could a 'Netflix for clothes' service become the future of fashion retail?

Internet Retailing published its UK Top500 list, which consists of the top retailers in the UK's ecommerce and multichannel retail industry. Amazon, Argos, Boots, House of Fraser, John Lewis, Mothercare and Screwfix are the top names of this extensive list.

Amazon is currently testing drones for its Amazon Prime Air delivery service in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, as well as in Canada. This was revealed by Amazon's CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. This is interesting news, as the current legislature in the Netherlands doesn't allow autonomous drones yet.

The British super market chain Sainsbury's has acquired Home Retail Group for 1.3 billion pounds, or 1.7 billion euros. With the acquisition Sainsbury's wants to fight the competition from Amazon in the United Kingdom as well as being better capable of delivering foods and drinks that are ordered online at the customer's home.

The British company Fancy Me has received many complaints after one of their costumes went viral. The UK online retailer sells 'wartime refugee' costumes and many customers are now furious. The outfits are said to be insensitive in the light of the ongoing migration crisis in Europe.

Royal Mail delivered 130 million parcels last month, which is 6 percent more than in December 2014. And in the past nine months, its postmen and women handled 4 percent more parcels compared to the same period one year before.

Also has finally opened its online store in the United Kingdom. The discount retailer has kicked-off its online shopping store by offering cases of wines for home delivery. The online wine store was announced by Aldi in September last year.

UK fashion retailers are missing out on an annual spend worth almost 12 million euros because they are not engaging with shoppers who are increasingly researching fashion choices before purchasing. Retailers should re-evaluate their marketing content to focus on product attributes over the brand image, a new study suggests.

Multichannel retail management platform Brightpearl announced it has raised 11 million dollars (10.09 million euros). Venture investors, including Eden Ventures, MMC Ventures and Notion Capital funded the British company, who wants to use the money to accelerate growth of its US business.

Four in ten shoppers in the United Kingdom used click-and-collect during the Christmas period last year, but 36 percent of them encountered issues with their click-and-collect orders. It's no surprise more than three-quarters of UK shoppers say they would be likely to switch to shopping with another retailer next Christmas as a result of a poor online shopping experience.

Supermarket chain J Sainsbury disclosed yesterday that a 1 billion pounds bid for Home Retail, owner of retailer Argos, was rejected two months ago. It's now thinking about making a formal offer. With the desired acquisition of Home Retail, which also owns Homebase, Sainsbury's wants to fight the competition of online ecommerce giant Amazon and discount supermarkets Lidl and Aldi.

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet, has shown to be very enthusiastic about the ecommerce industry in the United Kingdom. The former Google boss thinks the United Kingdom is the world leader in ecommerce.

UK-based technology company Ve Interactive has acquired the Display Retargeting business from eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions, a recently launched independent company. Now Ve has a client base of more than 10,000 online businesses. All employees from the eBay Enterprise Display Retargeting business will be retained.

Are their differences between shoppers in let's say France or Spain? Yes, of course. The major steps of the customer journey may look similar across all countries, there are certainly a few differences in each country. DPD studied the behavior and expectations of 18-25 year olds in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Poland.