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Radio-frequency identification, famously used to bug the US embassy in Moscow, is a cheap way to track objects and data.
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Retail has had three phases, according to Katelijn Quartier, who heads the Retail Design Laboratory at Hasselt University in Belgium. ‘In Retail 1.0, the manufacturer was in charge and no designer was needed. Retail 2.0 was a phase where the retailer was in charge but hired an architect or interior architect to design the store following the brand’s or retailer’s ideas,’ she wrote in Retail Design, Theoretical Perspectives (Routledge). We have entered ‘Retail 3.0, a time when the customer is more and more in charge… This asks for much more from a designer than to translate a retailer’s identity into a store design and goes beyond mere functionality and efficiency – even more so now that a commodification of products, brands and retail is occurring’.
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Since October 2015, customers have had to pay at least 5p for each single-use bag – with all retailers employing more than 250 people made to take part in the scheme.
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The retail giant is running a trial in one store where shoppers scan items and pay with their phone.
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Campaign Live
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Cashless: up-to-date checkout machines are considerably faster than older models
The Tesco Express is part of the Heart Building, which opened last month and brings together testing kitchens, meeting and event spaces and other facilities designed to support a working culture in which staff from all teams are more actively involved in innovation.
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In west London, an iconic Art Deco landmark has been converted into 66 apartments courtesy of UK studio Interrobang. This latest renovation of the historic Hoover Building carefully preserves many period features along with a comprehensive restoration of the grand facade.
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“In the packaging industry, there is no way around active and intelligent packaging anymore; in the past six years, it has become a real industry.” That was how Eef de Ferrante, Managing Director for the Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association opened the 2017 Active & Intelligent Packaging World Congress and Hackathon in Amsterdam. Six years ago, de Ferrante recalled, he visited a supplier showroom with an industry colleague where intelligent packaging technology was being demonstrated. While de Ferrante was excited about the development, his colleague was not impressed. “This is nonsense,” the colleague said. “Nobody is using it now, and nobody will.”
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Have you ever gone food shopping on a lovely hot day only to be turned into an icicle walking past the supermarket’s open chiller cabinets?
Suddenly that shorts and T-shirt combo doesn’t seem like such a smart idea as you dive in to grab your organic yoghurts.
Well all that chilly discomfort could soon be history thanks to a gadget inspired by Formula 1 racing cars.
The device is basically a thin strip of aluminium and plastic shaped like a wing that is attached to the front of the cabinet shelves.
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Campaign Live
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If retailers want consumers to keep using their physical stores, they will have to work hard to make paying as frictionless as possible, while giving shoppers a reason to visit.
Today’s customer wants brands to be fully geared up with chatbots, messaging apps and mobile payments. A study by Mindshare on the “Future of retail customer experience” found that 65% of customers expect retailers to use mobile technology to make their in-store experience better.
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Speaking at the IGD Online and Digital Summit in London, Rafael Orta said that, while the number of people regularly using voice controls to add to their shopping lists was still in the thousands, the format was having a noticeable impact on shopper behaviour.
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This was despite undercover footage from the investigation showing that chicken drumsticks returned by Lidl were repackaged under Willow Farms.
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