TechnologizerAmazon
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 …
It’s every man for himself on Black Friday, so why not call on some smartphone apps to give you a hand? Armed with a smartphone and these holiday shopping apps, you might actually stand a chance against frenzied shoppers and …
The days of skirting around having to pay retail sales tax by shopping online may be coming to a close—and Amazon, of all companies, is supporting the effort.
Read more: Amazon Supports a Bill Forcing Online Shoppers to Pay Sales Tax
TechnologizerApple
There are many things I like about the Apple Store’s unorthodox approach to retailing. One I don’t: The fact that most of its locations have done away with the traditional check-out with a queue of customers and a cashier ringing …
The one thing nobody wants to do after a long day of work is schlep to the supermarket and fight the crowds grabbing groceries for dinner. Commuters in Seoul, however, now have a different option—shopping by smartphone in the virtual grocery store in the Seolleung underground station.
It works like this: Photos of hundreds of …
If you live with other people, you know the problem: On Wednesday you notice that you’re out of milk, but you’ve forgotten about that by the time your spouse goes shopping on Friday. Or you write a note on that pad on the fridge, but your handwriting is illegible. Or what if the two of you go shopping at different stores and both buy …
“Maybe we should have gone with the line from Wet Seal instead.” Alright, so that’s not really what Target said after its website crashed and burned yesterday as fashion-crazed shoppers swarmed the company’s servers and wrestled Target.com to its knees, but it might be close.
What it actually said, in a message to visitors after the …
We’ve all been there; wandering aimlessly up and down the grocery aisles, silently screaming, “My kingdom for an iPad dock on this shopping cart!”
One supermarket chain in the U.K. is looking to do the unthinkable by rolling out (pun intended!) shopping carts—or “trolleys” as they’re charmingly called across the pond—with built-in …
Catalog shopping seemingly received its death knell with the rise of e-commerce, but it is poised for a comeback with Google Catalogs, a free app for the iPad (and coming soon for Android) that lets you flip through digital versions of print catalogs.
Recognizing that mobile technology can make catalog shopping a more dynamic, …
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.”
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But now, web retailers might want to start …
