Tag Archives: retail

Love for local

By March 25 2013, 9:20 am Leave a comment

Supermarkets are convenient, but often source their products from all over the world – racking up carbon emissions and squeezing out local competition. As a reaction to this, Danish co-operative superstore SuperBrugsen are encouraging customers to suggest local products that they’d like to see on their supermarket shelves.

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Corporate crafting

By March 20 2013, 9:52 am Leave a comment

As an independent artist or designer, selling your goods in bulk can often be a challenge. Etsy, ‘the world’s most vibrant online marketplace’, realised this – and created a new platform where artists and designers can connect with professional buyers to sell larger quantities of their goods, for sale in retail stores. ‘Etsy Wholesale’ is launching in beta soon, with the aim of creating a network where artists, designers and buyers can all benefit from each other’s expertise.

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Spend a penny in style

By March 19 2013, 9:50 am Leave a comment

When Pete Tomlinson and Ben Russell spotted the ‘to rent’ sign on an underground Victorian toilet, they saw the opportunity to create something new on the London coffee scene.
Instead of erasing all memories of its previous function, they chose to renovate the space – keeping the 1890s Doulton & Co. urinals, maintaining the original iron-wrought cladding and creating the perfect subterranean café.

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Dropped

By March 14 2013, 9:54 am Leave a comment

Having an item shipped across the world often feels like risky business. So, to try and provide some peace of mind, Cambridge Consultants have developed DropTag. (Nice one, Tim). Consisting of just a small sensor and an app, DropTag monitors your package’s condition en route – alerting you if it’s dropped, shaken or otherwise mishandled.

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Women only sleeping café

By March 13 2013, 9:40 am Leave a comment

We’ve all heard of cafes where you can eat, cafes where you can drink, and even cafes where you can stroke cats. But what about cafes where you can sleep? Qusca, a Japanese cafe chain, has it covered.

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Retail racking

By March 6 2013, 9:54 am Leave a comment

Today’s most successful brands move seamlessly between on and offline platforms – present and accessible both online and in ‘the real world’, as demonstrated by sophisticated online clothing brand Aether.

Aether’s first ‘bricks and mortar’ store is constructed from three shipping containers, with one big point of difference – a rotating clothes-hanging system which allows them to maximise space and view their products on-demand. Check it out here: http://vimeo.com/58743200

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Make a baby, save a bundle

By February 27 2013, 9:44 am Leave a comment

Clever IKEA Australia. This month they produced this amusing advert, offering a free crib for babies born nice months from Valentine’s Day. Wonder how many newly expectant parents will take them up on the offer! (tx Amy)

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The Target Chalet

By February 12 2013, 9:30 am Leave a comment

Department stores are famous for many things, but having an incredible team of in-house creatives is rarely one of them. Target, a mid-market department store in America, have bucked the trend – building a strong in-house marketing and advertising department. One of the most interesting things they’ve created recently is TargetChalet – a home-from-home for Target athletes. (Cheers, Jamie)

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Queue skipping

By January 30 2013, 9:13 am Leave a comment

QThru is a mobile-enabled technology that allows shoppers to skip the checkout lanes by using their smartphones to shop, scan and pay. (Cheers Jamie)

 

 

 

 

 

Shoppers can view in-store specials, get product details such as nutritional information, view their personally-created shopping list and access a running total of their spending so far. To complete the checkout process, shoppers simply enter a passcode and scan a QR code at a checkout kiosk, which then generates a receipt that’s highlighted in a different colour for review by a store employee at the door. Simple. In theory, anyway!

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Republic spaces

By January 24 2013, 10:52 am Leave a comment

Entrepreneurial artists and designers have found e-commerce sites like Etsy and Bonanza invaluable when building up their brands and selling their stuff. But as far as having physical spaces for showing off their work, options so far have been limited.

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