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Nokia Announces App ‘Smart Store’
Nokia kicks off the 2009 Mobile World Congress in Bacelona with the announcement of the Ovi Store, an application store that blends media with social networking and location-based services, akin to Google’s Latitude application. Ovi already boasts partners such as Facebook, MySpace and game publisher Electronic Arts. Nokia Executive Vice President Tero Ojanperä used a [...]
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Future Store
Video showing the process of RFID and other smartstore technology in Europe’s Future Stores.
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Clothing Designer Hopes to become a SmartStore
At its store in Hollola, Finland, women’s clothing designer Naisten Pukutehdas(NP) has extended its RFID system to the sales floor. The company—which sells women’s fashion, marketed under the NP Collection brand, at 500 retail locations in Scandinavia and Russia, as well as in 10 of its own stores—has created what it hopes to be a [...]
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Retail vision, logistics, & supplies in 2030
Perspectives for Food in 2030 by Dr. Gerd Wolfram – Managing Director MGI METRO Group Information Technology A vision for the future of retailing by Metro Group. http://ec.europa.eu/research/conferences/2007/food2030/docs/food-2030-gerd-wolfram_en.pdf [pdf]
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25 Canadian Tire “smart stores” by 2009
To spark sales growth, Canadian Tire is opening “small market” stores designed for smaller towns and testing “smart stores,” which will focus on higher-profit products with improved store organization and display. The company has already opened two of the small market stores and will open two more later this year. It plans to open two [...]
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Smart Info Terminal from Future Store
Interactive terminals and tasting stations turn daily shopping into an experience to savor. Terminals offer additional information like detailed nutritional values, seasonal recipes, and videos. Customers can also check the precise origin of products, breeding methods, and packaging. For quick navigation the Information Terminal is connected to the Everywhere Display –a projector which shows the [...]
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Is this how we will shop in a couple of years?
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Smart Check Out
What will payment systems in shops look like in the future. This video shows us how it should work. When this level of service is mainstream, will we laugh when we look back to today, when every item needed to be scanned separately? You be the judge.
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Smart Mirrors
What will mirrors inside clothing stores look like in the future? Here is a look at what a smart mirror could do. It seems that this kind of technology would not only be helpful to customers but there appears to be an entertainment factor to it too, and that could draw customers into stores.
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