New fitting room technology being tested at Nordstrom will make trying on clothes a surreal experience. The technology, which was developed by eBay, will include a touchscreen mirror that will track what items are brought into the room, and provide additional recommendations to the consumer. “Nordstrom and eBay
Amazon is launching transactional adverts on interactive digital kiosks across the New York Subway over the Christmas period. From next week the kiosks will greet Subway users with ads featuring products from Amazon’s Consumer Electronics Holiday Gift Guide. They will also feature content from New York’s Metropolitan Transportation
Shoppers are gearing up to spend for Christmas 2014, but when it comes time to ring up the purchases, many will have encountered innovative new strategies employed by retailers to make the gift-buying experience easier, more personalised, and a heck of a lot more digital. The retail
Think about that store you just couldn’t live without. It may not check off every item on your shopping list, but you can trust that it will probably tick off a few. Our relationship to our favorite retailers is built on this idea that its products
Hoping to promote some holiday cheer (and public canoodling), TGIF U.K. is testing the use of mistletoe-toting drones in one of its restaurants. The mistletoe-bedecked mini-aircraft are hovering above and around diners at the Royal Exchange restaurant in Manchester, U.K., according to the Manchester Evening News and other outlets (see video below). There is precedent: Last
The following ideas explore three very specific ways that Starbucks can transform its current experiences. Each of these ideas has an overarching exploration of the larger idea, followed by a number of tangible examples of how that idea could manifest itself through space, service, and experience
Strategy and design firm Slalom Consultants reimagine how the trends in The Future of Retail can be leveraged to reinvent a clothing retailers in-store experience. The team over at Slalom Consulting Harnessed the Digitize The Real World, Everyone-Of-A-Kind and Kill The Check Out to rethink the shopping experience
Bloomingdale’s is targeting the tech community in Silicon Valley with a hi-tech department store featuring smart dressing rooms and mobile checkouts. The three-level store is spread across 125,000 sq ft and is designed to appeal to early adopters of technology and act as a testing ground
John Lewis is piloting a new digital tool for its Any Shape, Any Fabric sofa service, using 3D printing and RFID tagging to help people choose their sofa. The current Any Shape, Any Fabric service, which is already available in stores, lets shoppers choose a picture
Booming Burberry! And we’re not just talking about the sheer size of the store, which challenges the Apple Empire down the road. We’re talking about the profound strategy embraced by Burberry to entertain each and every customer that walks into the flagship on London’s Regent
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