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Digital In-Store Ad Network Works uses RFID
Novitaz, a company that provides marketing research services to the retail and hospitality industries, is preparing to launch a loyalty card containing an active 433 MHz RFID tag complying with the ISO 18000-7 standard. The NovitazInside Card would enable brands and retailers to provide targeted promotional offers and discount coupons to consumers, based on their [...]
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Smartphones Heralding New Era of Smart Shopping
Three years after the launch of the first iPhone, the advent of “mobile connectivity” is profoundly shaking up the way consumers shop, according to new research from PriceGrabber.co.uk(R). Not just online, but in stores too, as a growing army of ‘smart shoppers’ are arriving in stores equipped with Internet enabled Smartphones. Whilst these devices might [...]
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Apple patent seeks to reinvent retail
Apple has filed a sweeping patent application for a technology suite designed to provide iPhone users with a broad range of real-time product information, special offers, sales opportunities, and related services in stores, restaurants, and other retail establishments. The filing also points to the inclusion of near-field communication (NFC) technology in upcoming iPhones. The system [...]
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Store of the Future
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Smart Shopping site raises $135 million
Groupon.com, a website that helps consumers find great deals and stores, restaurants, and other services where they live, has received $135 million in funding to support the site’s global expansion and also facilitate liquidity for employees and early investors. The funding round was led by Internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies (DST) and Battery Ventures. [...]
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QR Code
A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type [...]
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Android, iPhones, and RFID.
An offshoot of RFID known as near field communication (NFC), along with the latest Android phones and Apple’s iPhone, are now helping the US to catch up to Europe and Asia in mobile shopping and mass transit applications, said analysts and other experts at this week’s National Retail Federation (NRF) conference in New York City. [...]
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Tesco customers shop from iPhone
UK grocery giant Tesco is developing a mobile application to allow customers to manage their shopping though Apple’s iPhone.The new software will be produced to work with Apple’s iPhone, allowing users to search products by category or through simple text search, and to manage their shopping basket through the Apple phone.Source: Sky News
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Samsung develops RFID chip for mobile handsets
Samsung Electronics has developed an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip it hopes will turn mobile phones into more useful tools to tell people about the products and services they want. Samsung’s principal innovation in this area has been to design an RFID reader chip that can read different types of RFID tags. Normally, it takes [...]
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Smart Handheld System for Independent Retailers
McLane, a leading supply chain services company, today announced early testing for a ‘smart handheld’ system tailored for use by independent grocery and convenience store retailers. This in-store ordering solution, called Smart Handheld for Independents (SHHi), gives small chains the same capabilities to manage their physical inventories and order placements that large chain operations have [...]
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