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Posted on February 14, 2014 by Bud Morris

Smart New Company Expands Old Models of Retail

In the wake of news that Amazon — the very same mega-retailer that put a generation of old-fashioned physical storefronts out of business — is allegedly planning the opening of its first brick-and-mortar store, it becomes apparent that all bets are off in the land of predictable retail development. Which explains the success of Storefront, a clever new operation that …

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Posted on February 13, 2014 by Bud Morris

Heat-Map Genius Highlights Store Traffic

There was a time that the only way retailers could know for certain which areas of their store were favourites with shoppers was by the wear and tear of the carpets in front of displays, and the relative dishevelment of the displays themselves. But increasingly sophisticated customer-tracking technology has, mercifully, made waste of such primitive attempts to understand how we shop. Spurred …

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Posted on January 20, 2014 by Michael Benarroch

MintChip Advances to Next Developmental Stage

In an age when we can pay for a bedroom suite with a cellphone and buy a pulled pork sandwich with a stash of digital cash (Toronto’s first Bitcoin ATM has just been announced; Vancouver’s already got one), it should surprise precisely no one that the age of the MintChip is upon us.

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Posted on January 7, 2014 by Michael Benarroch

Retail, Version 2014

No doubt 2013 was a game-changer for retail (could we have imagined a day when we’d buy dinner with our telephones?) and the pace of technological development was furious, but — and here’s where things get interesting — the full potential of many of these nascent additions to the retail scene is far from being realized.

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Posted on December 24, 2013 by Michael Benarroch

House of Thrones: Canada’s Best Restrooms Announced

Cintas Canada has announced the winners of its annual Best Restroom Contest and, this year, a humble gas station in northern Alberta has scored top honours. The Valleyview Shell Super Station has won first place for its tidy, assiduously scrutinized and surprisingly luxurious facilities.

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Posted on November 21, 2013 by Michael Benarroch

Digital Tools Enrich Conventional Shopping Experience

The marriage between brick-and-mortar stores and their e-commerce outposts was an inevitable one. The wedding, predictably, was lavish and multifaceted. And the honeymoon stretch includes lots of instances in which the sweet, smart logic of the union is on full display.

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Posted on November 11, 2013 by Michael Benarroch

Shape-Shifting Store Introduces New Take on Retail

Just as the Germans have added a third gender that gives parents another box to consider ticking at their baby’s birth, a new concept shop in New York has introduced another category to the retail industry. To brick-and-mortar and online stores, add the notion of the permanent but ever-evolving pop-up shop.

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