Goodbye high-street?
Retail on the high street is in the middle of a massive transformation.The high street as we know it is dying. Although over the centuries the type of goods transacted across the counter in shops may have changed, we now face a situation that the actual transactions are vanishing. [...]
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Are we ready for Webfronts yet? (2)
10/30/09 •
Is the time right for the emergence of the Webfront showroom? A place that links the high-street to online retail but does not necessarily depend on traditional retail margins to be profitable. A space that allows you to discover products and services, follow demonstrations and then try them out for yourself. You then are able [...]
The Last Click (0)
10/28/09 •
Dixons’ browse-somewhere-else-then-buy-online-from-us advertisement campaign in London, is yet another indicator that business models for the high street have to change and will give rise to new retail formats. Stores with location overhead are competing with online retailers, who blatantly acknowledge that they depend to some extend on the services offered in brick & mortar stores, [...]
Location based services? barcode comparison? … and other disruptive ideas (0)
10/04/09 •
Barcode and location based price comparison services, including augmented reality applications which overlay information on top of the physical world, are about to become mainstream. This will have a profound impact on business models in retail, will in the long run affect the way we conduct transactions in public space and will impact urban planning [...]
Is anybody watching out there ?- part 1 (1)
3/29/09 •
The guru of retail, Paco Underhill, has presented a verdict on the current state of digital signage in shopping environments at the Digital Signage Expo in February 2009. His critique was pretty rigorous. His proposals for improving the application of digital signage are very much in line with our own observations and the conclusions we’ve drawn.
Is anybody watching out there? – part 2 (2)
3/29/09 •
In recent months two large European retailers announced that they were to close down extensive digital signage networks across hundreds of shops. What has happened to this much anticipated technology and what was the outcome of the initial marketing drive?
Not quite the end of industrial design, but almost … (7)
3/21/09 •
In the next few years we will see various types of consumer electronic devices all look like thin black boxes being defined by the size and proportions of the displays that characterise their shape. In traditional retail settings it will be increasingly hard to sell these products based on some imperceptible quality differentiations related to “improved” display or [...]
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