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The Party People aims to revamp the shopping experience with AR mirror

Inside Retail

While augmented reality mirrors are floating around, we have taken them to another level by adding checkout functionality to them, and as I understand it, this hasn’t been done anywhere in the world,” he told SmartCompany. It can also be put in unused spaces and we use e-commerce fulfillment so it’s no stock requirement.

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No tricks: Why The Party People is bringing in AR mirrors for Halloween

Inside Retail

Supported by sponsors including Uber, Lendlease, Starshipit, Stockinstore and Shopexp, the technology enables customers to virtually try on products and make purchases through a checkout option, with the choice of delivery or click and collect. The vision is for [the shoppable AR mirrors] to have a presence across major shopping centres.

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Revealed: How retailers can satisfy consumers facing cost-of-living challenges

Inside Retail

This does not mean just the ease of navigating a website – or the aisles of a physical store – but extends to being able to quickly find the products sought and ensuring a smooth, efficient checkout process with as few steps as possible. Finding out it’s unavailable feels like a dead end.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 296 – Guardian Baseball Co-Founder Matt Kubancik

Retail Geek

Started selling fashion and store stock Closeouts Retail Arbitrage early days of eBay and then when I was 18 years old. Matt: [11:33] Applesauce back and everything yeah I’m the Costco dead. Matt: [2:05] No not at all actually spent six months in in college dropped out was one of the original I started selling on eBay 1999.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 297 -GroceryShop 2022 and news

Retail Geek

Scot: [33:57] Yeah and then yeah so I think I think they probably, you know what they’re doing is 10 experiments and getting rid of 3 and people focus on that versus the seven they’re keeping in those seven they’ll keep iterating on and making better so I don’t think it’s dead.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

Jason: [4:27] Yeah I want to say their stock was at 450 when you made that prediction and you can get it for the budget price of 1193 right now. Jason: [30:13] Yeah yeah the cognitive load can get pretty high when they start NASCAR racing up the checkout with multiple buy now pay later options. Scot: [4:24] So this was a total zero.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 265 – News, retailer earnings, and listener questions.

Retail Geek

Famous Last Words I’ll probably be dead wrong I doubt so anytime you do a merger or an acquisition of this size like you do have to get regulatory approval, I kind of don’t think this is gonna be that tough because Amazon doesn’t have a lot of. [11:09] Jason: [10:36] I mean yeah it is funny to think about but yeah.