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Canadian Tire Mobile Media, Radio Shack to Sell Verizon Wireless, Wal-Mart Canada Goes Urban
Two Canadian Tire stores in Toronto, as well as a Calloway shopping center in Etobicoke, Canada, have launched the Bee Media personal mobile media service.
Bee Media offers an opt-in service that delivers location-specific, relevant offers and information to its member shoppers on their mobile devices while they are shopping.
M-commerce
Independent RadioShack stores will begin...
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Newegg Shell Shockers, Wal-Mart Online Gaming, Amex-foursquare Deal
Newegg is launching time-sensitive promotions to consumers via the mobile channel using the Responsys Interact Suite.
Newegg delivers daily mobile “shell-shocker” alerts about specially discounted products that are available until they sell out, enabling consumers to make a purchase quickly.
E-commerce & Multichannel Retailing
Wal-Mart is partnering with game streaming company...Continue Reading »
T-Mobile Daily Deals, Nickelodeon Partners with Wal-Mart, McDonald’s Eyes Bosnia
T-Mobile USA has unveiled an Android application that will aggregate daily deals by location from a variety of sources, including the established social couponing company LivingSocial, according to the New York Times.
The app, called More for Me, features group deals across a variety of categories, including upscale meals, health and beauty services, clothing offers, concert tickets,...
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Starbucks Android App, VF Buys Timberland, Top Luxury Stores
Starbucks’ mobile payment app is now available for Android smartphones, according to ZDNet.
Users can tether a gift card to a credit card for autoload or choose to reload funds to the gift card manually, paying by scannable barcode at the register.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Footwear and apparel retailer Timberland was purchased by VF Corp for approximately $2 billion; Timberland...Continue Reading »
Daily Deal Growth, Target Canada Stores, Donut Day
Unique visitors to leading daily deal sites Groupon and LivingSocial.com grew by triple-digit rates between April 2010 and April 2011, according to analysis from Compete.
Groupon still leads the way with nearly 24 million unique visitors for the month, increasing 5.4% month-over-month (MOM) and 655.8% year-over-year (YOY).
International Expansion
Target has revealed the first...Continue Reading »
Urban Outfitters Mobile POS, Google NFC Payment, Starbucks Raises Bagged Coffee Cost
Urban Outfitters, which has been piloting mobile POS devices in selected stores since late 2010, will roll out the technology across three of its brands this year, according to RIS News.
The technology, developed by Starmount, uses Apple iPod Touch hardware outfitted with a sled containing a magnetic stripe reader and barcode scanner, and includes the full functionality of a...
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Best Buy shopkick, Home Depot Multichannel Mktg, Starbucks UK Contactless Payment
Customers using the shopkick shopping app will be rewarded for walking into any of the almost 1,300 Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores nationwide.
Best Buy says the rollout will make it the first of shopkick's launch partners and first consumer electronics retailer to provide this mobile shopping experience for consumers through targeted offers and rewards on a national...
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Netflix Android App, Promotional Email, Smaller Kohl’s Stores
Netflix has begun to roll out a Netflix application for the Android platform. The online movie rental retailer is making the free app available for download from Android Market.
E-commerce & Multichannel Retailing
The top online retailers sent each of their subscribers three promotional emails on average during the week ending May 13, 2011, according to the Retail Email Blog. That’s...Continue Reading »
Mobile Initiatives, Target Canadian DCs, Burlington Coat Hack
The average brick-and-mortar retailer will spend $343,000 this year on mobile initiatives, up from $50,000 in 2010, but the spending falls within a broad band, a recent study by Forrester Research found. While virtually all retailers said their goal for mobile devices is to drive sales on their websites, investment levels may not be adequate, with modest sales at best resulting,...Continue Reading »
Mobile Retail Strategies, White Castle Online Ordering, Sunflower Market Apps
Ninety-one percent of retailers currently have a mobile strategy in place or in development, up from 74% a year ago, according to “The State Of Retailing Online 2011: Marketing, Social, and Mobile” report conducted by Forrester Research Inc. for Shop.org. In addition, 72% of retailers say they will increase their spending on social networks this year compared to last...Continue Reading »