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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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Sears Store Skype, Bloomie’s Outlets, Apparel Size App
Sears Canada Inc. has introduced Skype technology in 10 of its trendy new fashion shops, allowing shoppers to get instant online feedback by modeling would-be purchases for friends or family on an in-store, 58-inch-wide screen, according to the Toronto Globe & Mail.. Sears is rolling out other online capabilities, such as allowing customers to design their own furniture on the web, as...Continue Reading »
Digital Loyalty, Family Move Night, Mobile Problems
The Boston Globe reports a new digital coupon service is being launched today, with a difference: unlike group buying sites, it’s not designed to offer deals on spa treatments or other luxury items.Instead, the service from SavingStar Inc. will work with the loyalty cards handed out at large chains, such as the supermarkets Shaw’s and Stop & Shop and the drug retailer CVS, to give...Continue Reading »
Dunkin’ Donuts Social Game, AT&T Acquires T-Mobile, Netflix Mines Facebook
Dunkin’ Donuts recently launched a social media promotion in Boston, MA, in partnership with mobile game platform SCVNGR. Players can score rewards redeemable at TD Garden’s Boston Bruins Pro Shop, like discounted merchandise and free t-shirts, by playing SCVNGR at participating Dunkin’ Donuts locations through March 31, 2011.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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RetailWire Discussion: Responding to Online Bashers Works
By Tom Ryan
Managing Editor
RetailWire
According to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive, 68% of consumers who posted a negative review on a social networking or ratings/reviews site for a retailer after a poor holiday shopping experience actually received a response from the retailer. Of those, 18% turned around and became loyal customers and bought more.Among consumers who did get...Continue Reading »
Office Depot iPhone App, Food Lion Kiosks, Internet Sales
Office Depot has introduced a new iPhone app, according to Forbes. A customer never has to leave the application or be redirected to another site to complete a transaction, and it also includes features such as a shopping cart.
E-commerce & Mutlichannel Retailing
Food Lion's MVP Savings Center personalized coupon kiosks have been so well received that the chain is rolling them out to...Continue Reading »
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RetailWire Discussion: The Enduring Allure of the Secret Handshake
Commentary by Doug Stephens,
President,
Retail Prophet
Facebook has become the ultimate online commune. Anyone can jump on a Groupon deal. There are no requisites to joining Foursquare, Flickr or almost any other web based social community. In fact, the web in general has in many ways become the truest expression of the idea of equal access and egalitarianism; the democratization of...Continue Reading »
‘Daily Wrap:’ OfficeMax, Netflix, Barnes & Noble
OfficeMax has launched a new enhanced 2.0 version of its free for the iPhone App on the App Store and is making the App available on Google's Android platform.
The 2.0 version gives users the ability to view OfficeMax's weekly ad and special offers and adds local store hours and phone numbers to the app's GPS-enabled store locator function.
M-commerce
A number of the world's leading...Continue Reading »
‘Daily Wrap:’ Petco, Coca-Cola, Holiday Shoppers
Specialty pet retailer Petco has launched a new mobile commerce site. The site, based on the Digby mobile commerce software platform, offers mobile access to thousands of products, as well as product photos and reviews, full site-search capabilities and a store locator.
E-commerce & Multichannel Retailing
Google’s AdMob team and Coca-Cola have produced a live wallpaper for the...Continue Reading »
‘The Daily Wrap:’ Sports Authority, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart
During Black Friday, Sports Authority gave away $500 gift cards to 20 randomly selected Foursquare users who checked in at one of the brand's 400-plus stores, according to ClickZ.On Foursquare, the brand had around 400 followers before the campaign and now has almost 4,500. Sports Authority has been testing Foursquare and other geo-social platforms since late spring.
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