Recently, Walmart announced it will start rolling out delivery lockers in its U.S. stores, allowing customers to pick up goods ordered online. The retailer is following in the footsteps of Amazon and a range of others, aiming to knock down any consumer barriers to e-commerce and avoid the costs associated with missed deliveries.
a number of retailers are forming innovation labs to develop technology that optimizes the shopping experience regardless of how or where customers interact with the brand.
Target Corp said on Friday it opened a new San Francisco office to track down technology companies that can help the second-largest U.S. retailer grow its online commerce business.
The Alliance Data survey found that when in a store but not ready to buy, the majority (58%) of moms snaps a photo of the item so they remember it later and about a third (35%) take a photo of the shelf tag with the price to compare pricing later.
The company best known for Scotch Tape and Post-it notes keeps itself involved with a wide variety of technologies and innovations, and has incorporated its Vikuiti Rear Projection Film into what it says is its "first fully integrated, interactive Virtual Presenter," which it debuted at this year's South by Southwest Interactive show.
Recently, Walmart announced it will start rolling out delivery lockers in its U.S. stores, allowing customers to pick up goods ordered online. The retailer is following in the footsteps of Amazon and a range of others, aiming to knock down any consumer barriers to e-commerce and avoid the costs associated with missed deliveries.
a number of retailers are forming innovation labs to develop technology that optimizes the shopping experience regardless of how or where customers interact with the brand.
Target Corp said on Friday it opened a new San Francisco office to track down technology companies that can help the second-largest U.S. retailer grow its online commerce business.
It's so easy to drop the loose change from your daily coffee purchase as a "thank you" for your favorite barista, but paying with plastic completely changes the transaction--oftentimes you don't even have to sign, instead just cruising straight out the door with your morning cup.
The leader in real-time store monitoring, RetailNext enables retailers and manufacturers to collect, analyze, and visualize in-store data. The company uses best-in-class video analytics, on-shelf sensors, point-of-sale systems, and other sources to automatically inform retailers about how shoppers engage with their stores-providing operations executives with the insights needed to grow same-store sales by 20% or more.
Mobeam has reformatted barcodes for the digital sphere so they can be read from phones by existing point-of-sale laser scanners. The Object Recognition Scanner has already hinted at a world without the need for physical barcodes. Now Mobeam has reformatted barcodes for the digital sphere so they can be read from phones by existing point-of-sale laser scanners.
Picture this anxiety-provoking scenario: you're at an all-day conference, sweating bullets as you prep for a presentation in an hour's time. But you packed in haste and left your laptop charger at home. Your battery capacity is perilously close to zero.
Jonathan Coon, co-founder and CEO of 1-800 Contacts and its spin-off site Glasses.com wants to elevate online shopping beyond what he sees as an antiquated system: Online shopping today is just a digital version of the Sears catalog from 100 years ago.
Monolith aims to track what people are watching on TV or billboards, the offline advertising world if you will. It all started when co-founders Martin Birač and Tomislav Fistrić decided they wanted to explore the potential of Microsoft's Kinect accessory for the Xbox 360.
If you think about it, fashion may actually be THE industry that started the curation trend - we just didn't know it at the time. How could we? "Curation" is a relatively new term, but it's finding its way into other realms; you hear about content curation, music curation - all meaning that in some way, these industries are personalizing their offer according to your individual wants, needs and likes.
The Alliance Data survey found that when in a store but not ready to buy, the majority (58%) of moms snaps a photo of the item so they remember it later and about a third (35%) take a photo of the shelf tag with the price to compare pricing later.
Jifiti lets users scan product barcodes and instantly send a voucher for those items to friends in other locations. Digital gift cards such as Vouchr have made the process of getting a last-minute present even easier. However, there are still some that may bemoan the lack of imagination involved in just giving money.
Just as the Shazam music app allows consumers to identify a song through their smartphones, then purchase and/or share that song, SLYCE Commerce technology offers a similar service for products. Using the SLYCE visual-based purchasing app, consumers can photograph a friend's shoes, a stranger's jacket, a bottle of wine, an image from a print ad ― any product at all ― to access reviews, pricing and exclusive discounts.
Cortexica Vision Systems, a provider of cloud-based image recognition systems and visual search technology, announced the commercial availability of " Visual Fashion Finder," a mobile visual search solution for the fashion industry that uses the company's patent-pending Find Similar™ technology, and can be integrated into the mobile applications of any brand or retailer.
When outside of Selfridges in London, passersby may notice something innovative catching their eye, and even tracking their movements. Eight windows at the store served as exhibits for some of the greatest innovations from Nike in the past couple of years. Check out the video for a closer look at the windows created by creative agency ...,staat .
A bastion of fashion since 1860, Bloomingdale's might not be the first place that comes to mind for a high-tech shopping experience. But that's likely to change with the department store's introduction of its Me-Ality digital sizing booths, which the store hopes will ameliorate the patience-trying experience of finding the right size jeans.
Ads have certainly become even more high-tech and captivating than before as we can see from this latest Nike's offering promoting their Free model. The sportswear company collaborated with media agencies Mindshare, Kinetic, and JCDecaux for its holographic outdoor advertising campaign in Amsterdam. The campaign is the first in holographic 3-D advertising.
Technology tends to integrate itself slowly into our lives so that we cannot remember a time when it didn't exist. How did we search for things before we Googled them? How did we discover new music before we Shazamed it?
Department store chain Nordstrom is enhancing the consumer experience on its iPhone application with updates that include product sharing via SMS and user reviews. The new functions of the app will help consumers share their opinions on Nordstrom's products with their friends and fellow shoppers.
We've noticed a number of retailers experimenting with virtual display formats over the last 18 months. These types of stores allow for almost any environment to be easily transformed into retail space, with very low startup costs and space requirements. By utilizing simple technology, transitional urban spaces such as subway and train platforms can be repurposed for entirely new uses.
It's no secret among retailers that an online presence is crucial for survival. But to move beyond survival to successful, retailers need an online presence that is unique, interactive and inviting - necessary requisites to catch and keep the savvy mobile shopper. Last week, CVS Pharmacy launched an interactive mobile shopping application specifically for use with iPads.
The company best known for Scotch Tape and Post-it notes keeps itself involved with a wide variety of technologies and innovations, and has incorporated its Vikuiti Rear Projection Film into what it says is its "first fully integrated, interactive Virtual Presenter," which it debuted at this year's South by Southwest Interactive show.
Reuters reports that Walmart is expanding its iPhone-based Scan & Go self-checkout system to over 200 of its stores, up from 70 currently. The company began pilot testing on the project, which allows users to scan items into an iPhone app as they shop and then easily pay for their items at a checkout station as they leave the store, last August.
For a while there it looked like online shopping was going to spell the end of bricks-and-mortar retail. And although Amazon is still selling like crazy and big box stores are succumbing to showrooming, there's never been a more exciting time in the retail world.