The Retail Technology Innovation Hub summarizes the most important Covid-19 developments of the past week.

FinTech Miconex announced that it had spent more than £ 1.9 million on its Town and City gift card programs in 2020. The sales data for 2020 corresponds to a growth of the company of 350% compared to the previous year.

According to research by the British Retail Consortium and Local Data Company, the UK vacancy rate rose from 13.2% in the third quarter to 13.7%.

It was 1.6 percentage points higher than the same point in 2019. This was the tenth consecutive quarter of rising vacancy rates.

BALA selected Brightpearl and Shopify to launch their nurse shoes for the first time.

Raydiant, provider of digital signage and experience platforms, has closed $ 13 million in Series A funding jointly managed by 8VC and Atomic.

The new capital, which will total $ 20 million in funding, will be used to invest in product development and expand the go-to-market team.