Tag : shopping

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The future of the supermarket (and possibly everything else)

Author: Paul Sims

We've been looking at using barcodes for a small research project. I've haven't been too interested in the whole qr codes that open a web page on your phone thing, as it seems a lot of effort for low value result. But this service proposition from Tesco (in it's South Korean guise) is quite awe inspiring. Say hello to  advertising as a service platform.

 

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New era shopping for the digital generation

Author: Anjali Ramachandran

When we heard that digital shopping site Honeyshed had been revamped, we couldn’t help but pay attention (thanks to Greg Verdino). Honeyshed got off to a not-so-good start about a year ago. It launched in October 2007 as the brainchild of Droga5Publicis Groupe and Digitas. After a year of hibernating in beta-mode, during which period the maximum number of hits they were able to garner per month was 7000, they recently officially relaunched. It has been billed as ‘QVC meets MTV’ by its creators. The truth of that – ahem – description is for the site’s users to decide. 

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