Tesco Go comming?
British chain Tesco is apparently working on developing convenience stores that work similar like Amazon Go: people can just walk in, put items into their…
Author: Martin Treiber
The Geometry of Thought | Edge.org
Barabara Tversky discusses what she calls geometry of thought in this very intersting EDGE cast : Slowly, the significance of spatial thinking is being…
The Best Books on Marketing | Five Books Expert Recommendations
Seth Godin talks about marketing and the changes that happened to this field. It’s an interview absolutely worth reading.
What do customers want from your business?
I’ll give you the answer right away: convenience . What is striking, it’s difficult for businesses to see their services with the eyes of their customers.
Would you fire a cashier that turns 25% of your customers away?
The answer is probably a yes. And yet many companies don’t do this. Why? Because the cashier is not a person in a brick and mortar store, but the checkout…
Lush connects online and offline
Lush’s new flagship store in Tokyo is a good example how online and offline commerce can be connected.
A Few Thoughts about Deep Fakes—Stephen Wolfram Blog
Stephen Wolfram discusses deep fakes and suggests to use blockchain technology as a potential way to detect them: So, where does this leave us with deep…
Mobile for Brick and Mortar Stores
Mobile was often regarded as enemy of brick and mortar businesses. People would come into a store use their mobile to sometimes scan items and order them…
What It’s Like to Work on a 30-Year-Old Macintosh – The Atlantic
Ian Bogost writes about his experience using a Macintosh SE from 1990. He attributes the attractiveness of this long past computing area to the simplicity…
Uber’s Path of Destruction – American Affairs Journal
A very readable analysis of Uber: S ince it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross…