A new US-based garment online retailer – a startup from the proverbial garage, is vying to capture a piece of your wardrobe, but in a different way! vPersonalize.com wants consumers to design their own apparel, online, on a 3D model…
In the age of Amazon.com, physical stores have to compete more than ever to provide customers with a shopping experience that rivals the ease and convenience of online shopping. The use of interactive digital displays are helping to provide customers…
Cincinnati-based startup 3DLT, home of the “the first store for 3-D objects,” has gone global with the launch of a new storefront on Amazon. The storefront showcases an array of 3-D printed products, from lampshades to jewelry, and, according to…
Google’s Product Listing Ads (PLAs) are playing a major role in the company’s “pay-to-play” ad format. Over the past year, PLAs have soared in popularity due to their expansion to smartphones and new customer-facing featrures. learn more in retailtouchpoints…
After raising a $6 million series B round, facial recognition company Emotient will open a private beta for a Google Glass app that detects users’ emotions in real time. Venture-capital firm Handbag led the financing, which closed in December but…
When you pull up a website, what’s the first thing you look at? The stock photo model splashed across the page? The large company logo at the top? The search bar? EyeQuant, a German artificial intelligence software company that…
Twenty years from now it will be bizarre if you walk into a store and the store doesn’t know who you are,” say veteran technology journalists Robert Scoble and Shel Israel in Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the…
As an industry, we remain far too focused on the tactics, e.g., mobile and social media, and tend to miss the bigger change that is taking place with our shoppers. This isn’t a question of whether we’re all going to…
The decline of the high street is not a new phenomenon. The growth of out of town retailing – a process that’s been ongoing since the 1980s – combined with the recent economic downturn has left some high streets in…
Showrooming, the practice of price-comparing on a smartphone while shopping at a store, isn’t really the huge threat to traditional retail that it is made out to be. The ravages of showrooming may in fact be more reflective of…
