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Happy New Year from all of us at NearSt 🎉 As we kick off 2025, we’re more excited than ever to work with retailers worldwide to help shape the future of retail! For a decade, we've been on a mission to unlock the incredible value physical stores have to offer. This year, that vision feels more tangible than ever as in-store inventory feed technology continues to transform the retail landscape 🛍️🌍 A great way to start the year is seeing this vision shared in Forbes' 2025 retail trends, where Catherine Erdly highlights how our technology is helping retailers adapt as online and offline shopping continues to merge. “In 2024 Uber Eats, Deliveroo, and Just Eat all started offering local shopping experiences…In 2025 we’re going to see more of the big social networks and discovery platforms start offering local shopping journeys.”📍🛒 We can’t wait to help more retailers thrive in 2025 — here’s to an exciting year ahead! 🚀 https://lnkd.in/gBxdgBhA

Google adds in-store inventory to 20 billion more shopping journeys a month ✨🔎 Google Lens, already a powerful tool for online shopping, now offers access to real-time local inventory — making it easier for shoppers to find what they need in a store nearby. Lens is used for nearly 20 billion visual searches every month, and 20% of those searches are shopping-related. This update is another step towards online platforms getting in-store product information into the hands of local customers. With NearSt, as Google’s Worldwide Local Inventory partner, retailers can trust their products will automatically appear across Google, including Lens. Making it easier than ever to attract local shoppers to their stores 🚀 Explore the full details in TechCrunch: https://hubs.la/Q02-vrVJ0

Meet us at the Garden Centre Expo next week! 🪴 We’ll be at stand B46, showcasing how NearSt is helping garden centres across the UK win more local shoppers 🙌 Visit us to see how we’re helping garden centres boost footfall and drive more sales for as little as £0.75 per new customer! 🚀 See you at Excel London 👋 #GCE24 #GardenCentreExpo

Thrilled to announce that NearSt is part of the 5th Cohort of Grow London Global 🙌 An initiative run by London & Partners and the Mayor of London to unlock international markets. Following in the footsteps of great companies, including Monzo, Brompton Bicycles, Mr & Mrs Smith and Bloom & Wild, we’re excited to be part of this remarkable group of high-growth tech companies. Looking forward to building on our international expansion together in the next 12 months 🚀

We’re delighted to be shortlisted as a finalist for Technology Scale-Up of the Year at the Scale-Up Awards 2024 🙌 Good luck to all the finalists! #SUA24

57% of consumers want to see, touch and feel items before they buy them. When shoppers find the product they want, they expect a seamless journey to purchase. As the EY Future Consumer Index highlights, visiting multiple channels before making a purchase—whether online or in-store—is now a common part of any shopping experience. Today NearSt makes nearly a billion in-store products visible online. We’re proud to be helping 100,000s of online shoppers every day find the local store that stocks the item they want to see, touch and feel. https://hubs.la/Q02LSwgk0

NearSt 2024 Away Day complete 🙌 Every year we go away as a team for a couple of days, this year’s adventure took us to Hinwick House, a stunning manor in the heart of Bedfordshire. Surrounded by 38 acres of spectacular parkland, we took time to reflect on the past year and explore exciting plans for what’s ahead 🌳✨ Of course, no NearSt Away Day would be complete without a few classic games… 🥸 We kicked things off with a very enlightening game of Would I Lie To You? NearSt Edition. 🕵️ We then put on our detective hats for a thrilling Murder Mystery evening, where Emily Pye emerged as the top detective. 📝 Finally, we tackled a perplexing game of Taskmaster with our very own Greg Davies (Tom Butcher) leading the way. An incredibly inspiring and energising few days with the people who make NearSt. Here’s to getting more people around the world back into physical stores! 🏬🔋

See you tomorrow at the Builders Merchants Federation Ltd (BMF) 2024 Digital & Technology Forum! 🛠️📱 NearSt CEO, Nick Brackenbury will be kicking things off at 10:20am by sharing his insights into The Local Future of Online Retailing 🔮 See you there! 👋

From 0 to 200,000 people a day 🚀📈 How Leyland unlocked its potential of people discovering their in-store products in Google. Before teaming up with NearSt, the stock in their 33 stores was invisible to anyone searching online 🤳 ❌ 🏬 “Now that each store’s inventory is linked up to NearSt, I know that anyone searching for our products in the local area will find us.” - Naivasha Elworthy, Leyland SDM Marketing Manager 🤳 🔌 🏬 Read the case study below 👇 https://lnkd.in/e7kbHXiA

NearSt CEO Nick Brackenbury takes to the stage at FUTR Europe 2024 🚀 As today's consumers seamlessly navigate digital and physical channels, Nick's keynote explored how the lines between online and offline retail are merging and what the future holds 🛍️ 🔮 It was a brilliant summit where industry leaders converged for a day of fresh thinking and innovative discussions, delving into the ever-evolving landscape of retail, marketing, and commerce. #FUTR FUTR Group