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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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Store of the Future
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Smarter shopping
NOTHING, you’d think, would be more dynamic or up-to-the-minute than how we buy and sell. From the early Greek agoras to the modern superstore, markets have always been the most sensitive barometers of economic and societal change. However, today’s retail model is struggling. It’s still largely a system built for the realities of an earlier [...]
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Future Store Demo
Video of the services that Future Store in Germany offers.
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Smart Shopping
Ed Hill from Intel’s Embedded Communication Group shows a internet-connected kiosk and cash register for retail stores. These could help shoppers find exactly what they didn’t know they were looking for, order items, and have them shipped from the store, and even pay using their smart phone.
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NTT combines Java & RFID, for loyalty cards
NTT Communications has begun trials of a high-tech alternative to loyalty cards that promises to simplify their use. Loyalty cards are big business and are often handed out to customers when they have made a purchase. Consequently, people end up with wallets stuffed with too many cards. When cell phone carriers began rolling out electronic [...]
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Smartphones & smartstores
The mobile phone will inevitably be an important component for smartstores. Stores that in build intelligence in their infrastructure using RFID with hardware such as smartshelves and smartcarts will need to embrace smartphones to take full advantage for servicing their customers. If customers are carrying around a communications device that can display information, images, and [...]
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