Only 16 per cent of retailers believe they will make mobile sales their top priority in the next year despite consumers calling for retailers to produce more mobile apps to streamline the purchasing process. Read more in cxnetwork Retail shift…
Xbox Stay’n’Play is a pop-up where gamers could experience the new Xbox One X console in an environment that mimicked where they would usually play – their bedrooms and living rooms. Read more in GDRinsight Xbox creates hotel for gamers’…
A series of technological and social forces, including the emergence of connected, electric, and autonomous vehicles and shifting attitudes toward mobility, are likely to profoundly change the way people and goods move about. Read more in dupress.deloitte Forces of change:…
In the past, mobile devices might have been used to research purchases at home before making purchases in store, but now mobile is emerging as a retail industry pillar in its own right, and retailers are blurring the distinction between…
If Amazon is successful, Alexa could siphon precious time and attention away from smartphones, in the same way that smartphones have made the PC less relevant over the past decade. But even Amazon acknowledges that it still has a lot…
Thinking mobile as a standalone channel to approach customers is wrong. Brands should expand their mobile vision beyond the device, and consider finding ways to deliver a personalized shopping experience in every channel during every phase of the consumers’ journey.…
Most of us don’t want to hand our phones over to anyone—no matter if it’s a family member or a stranger. What if there was a way you could share your phone with someone else without having to really relinquish…
History shows that new technologies often lead to increases in workforce participation for impacted sectors. Famously, since the introduction of ATMs in the late 1970s, the number of bank tellers and bank branch employees has actually increased—but the nature of…
Millennials use their devices for a wide range of activities, from paying bills to searching local businesses to interacting on social media and beyond. Predominantly, these activities are done through apps, as opposed to interaction with a more general phone…
Soon, major cities in the West will also catch up and ride the sharing wave even further. In the next few years, it will not be uncommon to use apps in order to rent a bike, visit a shop and…
