Tag Archives: Mobile devices

Filling the gap between mobile and knowing what to do with it

Many businesses as they prepare for a mobile future currently have a courting relationship with mobile devices as they work out whether they are a good fit and crucially what to do together.

The practical in-house business benefits of mobile, for stock taking or on the spot ordering for example, are easier to recognise than the advantages that customer facing mobile apps can offer to consumers.

Now the pressure is on for companies to find the right opportunities to fill the gap. Josh Bernoff, research

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Shopping environments use technology to support retailers

Regent Street, London, is driving footfall into its local stores using the latest consumer facing technologies. Potential customers will be targeted using a combination of mobile, beacon and app based technology.

Owned by the Crown Estate, Regent Street is one of several shopping environments to use the technologies to boost interaction with local people and tourists to help them plan their visits and discover new brands.

In this case, an app will use beacon technology to send promotions and useful

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Amazon Fire – the future of shopping?

Amazon has pushed the boundaries of shopping one step further, yet again, with the launch of its first smartphone, Amazon Fire.

The device is capable of recognising thousands of actual everyday items, through visuals or printed text, that people may want to buy and presenting a purchase option via the Amazon website. Users simply scan the item and wait to be directed to it online where it will be presented on screen in 3D.

In addition Amazon Fire can scan moving visuals like movies and TV programmes

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Retailers awarded for their digital innovations

Interactive digital walls, digital catalogues and e-receipts have been recognised at the Retail Week Technology Awards 2014 as brilliant technology projects in retail.

Thomson, holiday design store, won ‘Digital store of the year’ with its external mood wall that aims to get passers-by in the holiday mood and an interactive map that allows shop visitors to explore the world as they look for a holiday destination. An interactive table also guides customers on hotels and offers a ‘mood’ image

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Service with a smile and an app

Till systems and mobile devices are now working together to personalise and enhance the purchasing experience.

Coffee specialist Harris+Hoole has launched a new mobile app that processes the whole of a customer’s order by interacting with the in shop till and the barista operating it.

Customers using the app load pre-paid cash amounts onto their app account, and then on arrival at the coffee shop they check back into the app and make their order. This order then comes up on the barista’s till

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