Technology
As online giant Amazon.com charges into the $300 billion U.S. apparel market, Macyโs is running for the dressing room. Even Macyโs acknowledges thereโs little it can do to keep customers from shopping online for basic clothing โ T-shirts, menโs jeans and tighty whities. Yet the department store chain is clinging to the idea that manyโฆ
If Amazon.com is so automated, how come it continues to hire big numbers of people every time it opens a new fulfillment center? Just what is Amazonโs separation of labor between man and machine? To find out, we went inside Amazonโs Coppell, Texas facility with Amazon Spokeswoman Ashley Robinson on Wednesday.
Buying glasses online, whether prescription lenses or fashionable sunglasses, isn't the easiest of tasks. From finding a pair that are just the right size and color to getting the exact prescription lenses you need to seeing how the glasses will look on your face, the challenges are many. Glasses.com is trying to change that withโฆ
Before, we had online retail and offline retail, and never the twain shall meet. Now both worlds are merging into each other, sped on by the increase in mobile usage, which now represents 60 percent of the time spent online. Itโs no longer a question of online vs. offline; consumers want to be able toโฆ
Iconic images from the pages of Vogue are getting a makeover, courtesy of Target. In an ad campaign running in the September issue of Vogue, the discount department store has reimagined classic images from the fashion magazine, dating to the early 1900s. In this topsy-turvy world, carpets and curtains sold at Target replace high-fashion dresses, a chunkyโฆ
Retail was a vast and varied industry even before the internet, mobile devices and a host of other technologies transformed consumer behaviors and expectations. Since then, the gradual changes implied by retail โevolutionโ have been replaced by enormously transformational leaps. Despite this ever-growing complexity, I believe retail today is being shaped (or reshaped) by threeโฆ
Checkout is the last opportunity a retailer has to make a positive impression on a shopper. Yet new research confirms the majority of checkout experiences today end in frustration. By addressing acute front-of-store pain points, retailers will be able to boost customer satisfaction ratings while encouraging longer, more frequent visits. A study conducted online byโฆ
When Amazon.com announced the Dash Button back on March 31, it seemed like an early April Foolsโ Day joke: it had made a button you can buy that would place an order for something โ a single, specific product โ whenever you pressed it. But the Dash Button was very real and designed to beโฆ
Amazon.com wants to carve out a special zone of the sky to shuttle commercial drones that would deliver goods to its customers. Amazon Prime Air project vice president Gur Kimchi used a NASA convention in California on Tuesday to fly the idea of dedicating separate air zones for commercial drones. Kimchi proposed setting commercial drone zones betweenโฆ
Kyle Nel is executive director of Lowe's Innovation Labs, where he's developed the Lowe's Holoroom, an augmented and virtual reality home improvement design tool, the OSHbot autonomous retail service robot, and in-store and online 3-D scanning and printing. In Nelโs words: โI (and my team) build new technologies that solve consumer problems, as envisioned throughโฆ