Retail Marketing - Shopping Center Marketing

The NY Times reported today that Condé Nast will be releasing several of their magazings in full-length versions, as iPad applications. These will be available to iPad users, just like a traditional magazine, at a fraction of the weight and waste. “The first magazines for which it will create iPad versions are Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair,The New [...]

‘Shoes of Prey’ is an Australian website where die hard shoe fans can design/create their very own pair of dream shoes. When you hunt for the perfect pair of shoes, you typically already have a pair in mind. Avoid disappointment when retailers cannot provide you the shoes of your deepest desires because ‘Shoes of Prey’ [...]

Voucher Cloud is an app developed by Invitation Digital that allows users to get discount vouchers straight to their mobile, as well as locating nearby businesses with special offers.
To make things easier, Voucher Cloud takes your current location via GPS and serves up the offers closest to you. This seems to [...]

Spin off of Twitter’s question “What are you doing?” Now we get to see your credit card transactions! Good idea?
As the Internet matures, slowly but surely everything we do in the real world is going social. But there’s a limit to how much information we can explicitly share on all the various services. A new [...]

Not to be outdone by tech visionary Jack Dorsey — one of the brains behind Twitter — and his Square cellphone payment start-up, point-of-sale  veteran VeriFone struck today with the announcement of PAYware Mobile.
Not dissimilar from the Square iPhone application and accessory, which The Times profiled last week, PAYware targets small businesses with its subscription-based [...]

U.S. consumers are shopping via cell phone more than ever before. According to Deloitte’s 24th Annual Holiday Survey of retail spending and trends, published in October 2009, one in five shoppers plan on using a mobile phone to assist with holiday purchases, from researching prices and other product information to actually buying presents.  Retails Systems [...]

Here’s a great little article for a blast from the past, Chart of the Week: Online Holiday Shopping 1999-2009. It details that back in 1999, the dial-up internet age, about 0.64% of all holiday retail sales were made online. Now, analysts are predicting that this year it will be up at 3.7% (or up 8% from [...]

The mobile phone as a payment and promotional device is coming to retail. The questions are when, what processes and under whose governance?
The RIS mobile survey published in May 2009 suggested an answer about when and processes. The survey finds that 47 percent of retailers will have a plan or be in pilot mode by [...]

No retailer has yet become a master at M-Commerce, but many are getting involved by launching iPhone applications, which have taken off like a skyrocket due to the phenomenal popularity of Apple’s brilliant iPhone. Several elements have emerged as being critical: Product information to help make purchasing decisions, Web site traffic building, coupon targeting through [...]

Here’s a great new site, well that is if you are like me. Recently launched Alice.com provides customers with the ability to order everyday household items online. From batteries to plastic wrap it’s all here. Alice.com currently serves the continental U.S. Be sure to check it out.