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Best Buy, the company that dominates consumer-electronics retailing in the U.S., isn’t doing so well at the moment. As CNET’s Larry Dignan writes, it reported a $1.7 billion loss for its fourth quarter, and is responding with a …
An 83-year-old woman named Evelyn Paswall is suing Apple for $1 million after she walked into a Long Island Apple Store’s glass wall and broke her nose.
Paswall claims that she didn’t realize that she
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Microsoft opened the first two branches of The Microsoft Store back in October 2009. But its retail chain didn’t reach the San Francisco Bay Area until November of last year, when a branch opened up across from the Apple Store at …
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Michael Kozlowski of Good E-Reader is reporting that Amazon.com plans to open a retail store in the Seattle area in the coming months. The store will supposedly feature Kindle e-readers and tablets as well as other products, and …
Imagine integrating the convenience of online shopping into the physical world. Intel is one step ahead, creating virtual in-store experiences that will transform the way we shop. TIME takes a look at eight of Intel’s interactive …
“Do you ever buy clothes online?”
That question was asked to me by Bodymetrics CEO Suran Goonatilake right before a demo (see above video) of his company’s fancy virtual shopping technology at the 2012 Consumer Electronics …
How’s this for a brazen move to steal business away from brick-and-mortar stores? Under normal circumstances, a shopper using Amazon’s Price Check app in a physical store can instantaneously check to see if Amazon sells the same merchandise for a better price. This Saturday, however, when a consumer uses the app, Amazon will undercut …
In an apparent move to bridge the gap between the conveniences of online shopping and in-store pickups, Amazon has reportedly started to roll out high-tech lockers to hold your purchases until you’re ready to pick them up.
According to The Daily, Amazon is apparently testing the storage lockers around the Seattle area and, if …
Amazon.com sells many things.
Its U.K. website, for instance, sells something called a “Military Police Telescopic Tonfa” that looks an awful lot like a night stick and—wouldn’t you know it—is at the top of the “Movers and Shakers in Sports & Leisure” with a whopping 41,341% sales increase over the past 24 hours (as of 5pm …
Up to this point we’ve seen maybe 2% of augmented reality’s latent potential. For the most part, applications of the technology have ranged from utterly useless, to transparently gimmicky, to “oh hey, that’s kind of cool.”
(MORE: Skullycandy Lets You Try On Headphones Before You Buy)
But now, web retailers might want to start …
Forget about Apple’s store on Fifth Avenue – soon you might want to head on over to Grand Central Station instead. Want to grab an iPad while you’re waiting for your next train? That might be a closer reality than you think.
Apple has proposed a new storefront within New York’s iconic Grand Central Station. The Metropolitan …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
The desire to compete with Apple is widespread among many companies in the tech sector. The problem is that very few, if any at all, are well …
