http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/24/2971025/google-drive-official-launch-features
Google Drive Launches today !
Category : Uncategorized
Is this the future of Retail ?
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Category : Business, E-commerce, Future of Retail, Social Media
According to Forrester Research, the top reasons sited for cart abandonment are as follows:
* 57% – Didn’t want to pay shipping costs
* 48% – Total cost of purchase was more than expected
* 41% – Used the shopping cart for research
* 19% – Didn’t want to wait for the product
* 18% – Purchased offline instead
* 15% – Checkout process was too complicated
* 12% – Other reasons
Category : Business, E-commerce, Mobile, Point Of Sale
I have been watching retailers launching their fancy new websites in the last couple of weeks with big announcements of how great their website is and how excited the retailers are about them. The interesting fact is that most people finding out about these sites are on their Facebook page on their mobile phones. Well as you can guess they touch the link with their finger and find very quickly the website has not been designed mobile ready …so that retailer has just lost a potential customer and it is going to be hard to get that customer back on their site. I would hate to think how much these retailers are spending on these sites !
What a disspointment I say.
So of course I have to tell you how RetailCare builds all its sites with mobile readiness always in mind … see example http://www.bariano.com.au – check it on an Apple iPad or an Apple iPhone, or even a Android phone.
Category : Mobile, Point Of Sale
We are pleased to present the smart phone optimized ciwebreport.com!
Log in from your android or iPhone!
Currently ciwebreport.com delivers real-time sales information , SMS & Email Marketing direct from your live customer database, with the new customer mapping feature.
Thanks for the feedback that people wanted the sales report format for easy use on a smart phone – Done !
If your Counter Intelligence POS is not setup for mobile access, contact us immediately (03) 9514 9699.
Category : Business, Future of Retail, Mobile
Hard drive prices have soared in the wake of the floods in Thailand, with the cost more than doubling.
Factories in Thailand provide drives or drive components for most of the world’s markets. Both Western Digital and Toshiba have halted operations in the country while Seagate’s production is being hampered by a shortage of components.
In Melbourne, prices at the computer swap meets have risen sharply.
Vendors at Sunday’s meets were selling 1TB drives for $140 while 2TB drive prices were in the region of $180.
The swap meet vendors are mostly sole traders and have lower overheads as they operate from their homes, with the weekly stall at the swap meet often being their one public point of sale.
One vendor, Lily Li, who runs her own business, InfoDigital, from her home in Box Hill North, said that before the floods affected supply, she had been able to sell a 1TB drive for $60 and a 2TB drive for $80 to $85.
“All brands have gone up in price,” she said. “I only hope that we continue to get supplies as Christmas is a good time from the point of view of sales.”
MSY, a retail outlet that is reputed to have the lowest prices in Melbourne, has Western Digital 1TB drives listed on its website today for $149 while a 2TB drive of the same brand is $189.
Computer & Parts Land, another well-known retail outlet in Melbourne, has the WD 1TB drives listed for $195 while the 2TB drive is $165.
The shortage of drives is expected to continue well into 2012.
from : http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/home-it/51258-hard-drive-prices-hit-the-roof
Category : Business, Future of Retail, instore
If only we could have sat in on the meeting where the marketing team for this Osaka department store came up with the idea for their “Fuckin’ Sale,” spotted early this month by a reader of Jake Adelstein’s Japan Subculture blog.
-There should be some cool English words on these signs.
-How about “Fuckin’ Sale?”
-What’s that mean?
-Fuckin’ means, like, really good. So it’s a really good sale.
-And there’s no other meaning to “fuckin’? Nothing at all that might embarrass us on the internet? Remember what happened with our Save-a-Shit-Ton promotion…
http://gawker.com/5874304/japanese-department-store-may-want-to-look-up-the-word-fucking
