Amazon is testing a grocery store in downtown Seattle that lets customers walk in, grab food from the shelves and walk out again, without ever having to stand in a checkout line. Customers tap their cellphones on a turnstile as they walk into the store, which
Karen Millen has launched a retail technology concept store in London’s Shoreditch neighbourhood, showcasing existing in-store technology alongside a range of the latest technologies coming soon. Called Nexpo, the pop-up by the British women's clothing retailer – which normally specialises in tailoring, coats and eveningwear –
Lowes Hardware, have launched a customer assistant robot at the Orchard Supply Hardware store in San Jose. The trial aims to learn what sort of benefit a robot can provide in store. The robot has two large screens which people can interact with to search for
Adobe revealed this week a plan to bring digital personalisation to the store. At the company’s annual marketing summit in Las Vegas this week, director of e-commerce Errol Denger said the new technology will integrate shoppers’ personal information with data-driven recommendations for a personalized offline
Samsung’s new 40,000 square foot digital playground in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District is an immersive brand experience like no other. Called ‘837,’ the store, which opened on Monday and is located at 837 Washington Street, does not actually stock merchandise (although customers may make onsite digital
People have been shopping in-store since the beginning of civilisation – and online since the mid-1990s. With two decades of e-commerce under our belts, 2016 is a good time to look at how people are shopping online and in-store. Shopping patterns have shifted since the last
Ralph Lauren, Restoration Hardware and even Microsoft are dialling up their flagship stores. This month, Microsoft throws its hat into the flagship ring with a 22,000+ square foot store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan — a Windows counterpoint to the Apple Store glass cube, one of
Tiffany & Co. will mark the opening of a new luxury boutique on the ground floor of Selfridges in London with an immersive installation that lets visitors walk through a projected cityscape. Fifth & 57th is a recreation of the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 57th
Google is entering the bricks-and-mortar retail space with a ‘shop in shop’ concept that it is launching in partnership with Dixons Carphone. The tech firm has opened the first ‘Google shop’ in Currys PC World on Tottenham Court Road and is using the space to drive sales of its
Sainsbury’s has launched an innovative way to create a more streamlined and efficient pricing process in-store. They’re replacing the tedious paper labels with digital displays that can be changed on the fly and color-coded to indicate a special. The trial, which has started at the Sainsbury’s Local
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