5 month ago
Linkorama : Capturing Customer Conversations - This is a great way to capture more of the customer product conversation and capitalize on it in order to keep shoppers coming back for more.
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11 month ago
deusx : Beware of the … ghost mall! - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine - "when the slowing economy is led by pooped-out consumers, it's usually disastrous for the tenants of malls and strip malls"
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12 month ago
adamrg : PostSecret Target - I didn't send this card, but a year ago I could have.
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13 month ago
deusx : Don't Know What an iPhone Is? You Don't Deserve One | Burbia.com - "The dynamics were there. Angry miserable sales guy, a meltdown waiting to happen."
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17 month ago
43folders : Seth's Blog: Who knew I could be wrong in so many ways - "... many retailers believe that they still have the power to inconvenience shoppers as a way of increasing revenue."
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21 month ago
adamrg : You don't know what it's like - For the love of... give cash.
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21 month ago
Andy Baio : Apple: America's best retailer - history of the Apple stores, and the fun factoid that Apple makes more per square foot than Tiffany's
Rod Begbie : Why Apple is the best retailer in America - Love the idea that they beta-tested the store layout by building one to throw away in a warehouse. [via] #
Eric Meyer : Why Apple is the best retailer in America - "You could say that Apple has landed - not only on our street corners and in our malls but also, for the first time, on the top ten of Fortune's Most Admired Companies." [via Jeffrey] [via]
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22 month ago
deusx : Christian T-Shirts, Christian Clothing, Christian Jewelry & Gifts – C28 Christian Store - This store kinda squicks me out - there's one at the Valley Fair mall in San Jose, unironically near Hot Topic and Torrid. "C28 is a Christian store chain, offering an alternative to the mainstream mall stores."
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24 month ago
deusx : Violent Acres ? Archives ? Two Phrases That Destroyed American Culture - "‘The Customer is Always Right’ ... until we banish that phrase from American culture forever, I suggest we quit looking the other way when people behave like scumbags."
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Magma have some of the best dedicated design stores in the centre of London - And it looks like they have a pretty good mail-order outfit too for design books, t-shirts, posters and assorted sundries.
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merlinmann : Macworld: Editors' Notes: The Apple Store's next frontier - You can buy Palm stuff and rent DVDs in airports -- why not open Apple stores for folks who lost a power adapter or want to buy an iPod for vacation?
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29 month ago
merlinmann : NPR : Best Buy Cuts Workers Loose from Clock, Desks - Best Buy claims that a results-based policy, letting some employees work whenever they want, has increased productivity.
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30 month ago
merlinmann : The tao of Trader Joe's / Devoted fans meet online to swap news, stay connected - Despite carrying fewer items and less familiar brands, TJ's "produces sales per square foot of more than $1,300, which is twice the industry average."
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36 month ago
merlinmann : AOL News - Why Do They Want My Phone Number? - "Data that seems innocuous can get more information when aggregated."
Matthew M. Boedicker : why not to give stores your phone number at the checkout
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36 month ago
WillPate : USB powered, mouse-aimed airdart launcher - Turn your computer into the office command centre.
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40 month ago
WillPate : life of a liquidator - Blog of a nice lady I met at the Blog Business Summit who runs a designer fashion liquidator
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41 month ago
Andy Baio : Online retailers using blogs to bring back customers - I predict advertising sideblogs on popular sites by the end of the year
WillPate : E-Commerce Report: Blogging While Browsing, but Not Buying - How e-commerce companies are blogging
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45 month ago
cameron : KOMPAKT-MP3 - Kompakt starts their own mp3 site, €1.29 per track
plasticbag : The KOMPAKT record label has a site where you can buy high bit-rate unencrypted MP3s of their output - I can particularly recommend Hundred Million Light Years by KaitO - it's a wonderful seven minutes of twinkling explorations in noise. It's nice to find a new source of music to get on with...
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plasticbag : What was in the Apple Store's "Lucky Bags"? - The Lucky Bags may contain a selection of the following items in any combination: Airport Express, Wireless Mouse, Wireless Keyboard, D-Link, Keynote, .Mac, iLife, iSight Camera, 20GB iPod, Silver iPod Mini, JBL on Tour...
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plasticbag : The Apple Store opens on Regent Street - we'll be visiting it later today - On Saturday November 20th, Ron Johnson, Apple?s Senior VP of Retail, and John O?Grady, General Manager of the Apple Store, Regent Street, cut the ribbon to signal the opening of the world?s largest and most anticipated Apple retail store.
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49 month ago
Richard Rutter : London Applestore pics - It looks seriously impressive. Much rent on Regent Street. (filed under Apple).
plasticbag : The Apple Store Regent Street Preview Gallery - Pictures of the new Apple Store to open tomorrow morning on Regent Street in London. There are apparently 250 grab bags with a value of over £700 for sale for under half that price, if you're prepared to wait outside for six-ten hours to get them.
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50 month ago
Andy Baio : Wired on "The Long Tail" of the economics of scarcity - the biggest money is in the smallest sales [via] [via]
Wayne Burkett : Wired 12.10: The Long Tail - A *must-read* for anyone at all interested in how the internet has changed how media are consumed (and how the whiny dinosaurs can get over it and still make money). #
cameron : Wired 12.10: The Long Tail - Online retailers can take advantage of the tail of a power law
Adam Gessaman : The Long Tail - So there are real journalists out there still.
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