Tag Archives: BrickAndMortar

Square’s perimeter gets larger, now sold at UPS and OfficeMax locations

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What’s a company to do once it grabs a million merchants? Grab a million more, naturally. Following an online rollout and a wider spread to Apple Stores, Jack Dorsey’s own Square is expanding to OfficeMax and UPS locations. A couple of months back, the…


Amazon will give you $5 if you use its Price Check app this weekend

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No joke, it really will. All you have to do is walk into a retailer this Saturday, whip out your smartphone and use Amazon’s Price Check app to collect price data on in-store items. In exchange, the company will offer you a discount of five percen…


Agile Route’s Shopper Tracker brings Kinect hacks, Google Analytics to the grocery aisle (video)

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The Shopper Tracker is one of those devices that does exactly what its name suggests — and so much more. Developed by Argentina’s Agile Route, this Kinect hack uses an array of heat sensors and 3D spatial recognition software to track a consumer’…


Amazon Flow strikes low blow to brick and mortar, converts barcode scans to online sales

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Remember when you had to “walk” to a “store” to buy things? Our grandkids are gonna weep uncontrollably when we explain queuing up at Our Price to buy VHS tapes. We’ll recall the date the final nail was driven into brick and mortar’s coffin: Novembe…