On my way home Friday night, I picked up Halo 3, Limited Edition from Best Buy. Once I got home I opened the metal trifold case to find both DVD’s banging around inside the case. On both discs were deep scratches from them floating around while in transit. It appears that Microsoft didn’t do a very good [...]
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I was browsing Youtube and came across this old video showing off the Apple retail store.
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After the much talked about change of Borders using Amazon.com to host their site, Borders releases their new beta site. At first glance the site has a nice design.
The first thing I noticed was the “Magic Book Shelf” and immediately got my hopes up for something really cool and useful. Unfortunately, it’s a Flash object consisting [...]
What happens in Vegas is blogged about - shop.org
Posted in Analytics, Ecommerce, Retail, Social Networking, Stores, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0 on Sep 18th, 2007
shop.org in underway and it’s grown 10x in the last 6 years. 6 Years ago, shop.org had about 200 attendees and for 2007 the unofficial attendee number is about 2000 consisting of about 500 retail organizations with a 70% larger exhibit hall than last year. The show is focusing on 4 main areas that were requested by its [...]
Nikki Baird of Retail Systems Research has written a great article about implementing buy online & pick up in store in their weekly column Retail Paradox. She talks about the ROI potential and if it is necessary for retailers to implement these capabilities.
“Is buy online/pick-up in the store (BOL/PUIS from here on out) the cross-channel [...]
It’s been a year since Walmart has decided to discontinue layaway, allowing consumers to pay installments over time for the goods they want. It seems that other methods could have been used like Bill Me Later or other service offerings which would have provided similar options and improved the customer experience. Would they [...]
A store in China has included a slow moving roller coaster throughout the store to move consumers around the aisles as they shop. Huh? Now every trip to the grocery store is 2 hours of pure entertainment.
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Viral Video Released by RedPrairie
Posted in Retail, Stores, Viral Marketing on Aug 19th, 2007
RedPrairie, an ISV providing supply chain software, releases a viral video on their website and youtube. The premise is pretty good except I kept waiting for the punchline that never seemed to materialize. Clocking in at over 7 minutes it was about 4 minutes too long. Judge for yourself…
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According to a Starbucks Gossip blog and Associated Press, Starbucks has announced that they will reduce the number of drinks on the menu. This will be put into effect to attempt moving the lines a bit quicker.
I would have preferred that they look at other options like preorder by cellphone app/web and pay by PayPass. For [...]
Applebee’s Interview on Store Portal
Posted in Stores on Jul 23rd, 2007
I’ve caught up on my video blogs recently and this interview of two folks from Applebee’s about their use of a portal platform in their restaurants was great. Store portals are definitely coming on strong in the industry for getting out best practices & processes, HR, customer clientelling, corporate memo’s and time tracking.
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