Archive / 2014

IKEA trials motivational mirrors in store

In an effort to make its customers have a feel good shopping experience and potentially sell more mirrors and products in general, IKEA is testing interactive mirrors in store.

At the home retailer’s Wembley store customers will be able to experience a compliment as they pass or stop to check their reflection in the motion-sensing mirror.

The idea of the ‘motivational mirror’ is said to provide people with positive reinforcement, with messages that include popular positive sayings like “Suits

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Football tickets to fishing permits

With a vast range of electronic-point-of-sale (EPoS) hardware and several strong partnerships with solution resellers and software experts, International POS Ltd (IPOS) has been involved in a variety of innovative EPoS projects.

Known for building custom solutions for businesses in the retail and hospitality sector, Frank Whittle, managing director at IPOS who set the company up in 1990, in Lancaster, Lancashire, shares his company’s latest success stories with us. Working with partner ECR Concepts

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IPOS on small space and mobile EPoS

As a key hardware provider, IPOS has the opportunity to work with all manner of businesses – the end client, the solution reseller or the software provider, at any one time. In doing so, it takes a partnership approach that can be relied upon to deliver the right and often custom solution for any environment. This means that one month it might be developing an EPoS system for a retailer with a fashion or convenience store, and the next it may be providing a solution for a hospitality business

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Mothercare to be ‘digitally led’

Mothercare, a bricks and mortar and online retailer of products and services for mothers and children, has announced that becoming ‘digitally led’ is part of its new business strategy.

“Our ambition is for Mothercare to become the leading global retailer for parents and young children,” said Mark Newton-Jones, chief executive. Going on to say: “By modernising and transforming the UK into a digitally-led business supported by a modern store estate we will underpin the growth of the group’s

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Retail technology today, tomorrow

More than ever retailers are looking to technology to improve the customer shopping experience in store and of course their sales.

QR codes, social media, self service kiosks, headphones, iPads, screens, digital mirrors, iBeacons, wifi; the list goes on ranging from the familiar to the futuristic. The idea isn’t necessarily to introduce the most innovative solution, it is to deliver the most effective one that works for all – brand, product and customer.

You can start small by:

Combine in store displays with social media and create a display of your top pinned items featured on Pinterest.
Enable wifi in store so that customers can access product reviews, make comparisons, or order and buy online.
Create an app that activates when customers are nearby or in store that can be used to promote special offers.

Go practical:

Bring scan as you shop devices/apps in store to put customers in more control of their purchases and speed up the payment process.
Install self service kiosks or staff held mobile point of sale devices that can be used for quick ordering and payments.
Introduce iPads in store to allow customers to browse your full product range, or touch screens on the store window to allow passers-by to shop even the store is closed.

Push

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