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Retail

Apple Store, Upper West Side

November 13, 2009

Image source: UWS – First Look
GLASS & STONE: 1981 Broadway, New York, NY. Open. Spacious. Expansive. What a beautiful site. 8500 square feet of space enclosed in glass and stone. The stones are 45 feet tall and 30 feet deep. The glass is 75 feet wide. The Upper West Side Apple Store joins about 325 [...]

Coca-Cola Freestyle Up Close

July 10, 2009

Here is what Coca-Cola’s new Freestyle looks a bit closer up. The company’s Freestyle is a new beverage dispenser that incorporates a touch LCD. As you can see it is pretty nifty: you simply touch the beverage you want (water is on the bottom right) and then I’m guessing you click the ‘POUR’ button. And [...]

Coca-Cola Freestyle: New Beverage Dispensing Platform

July 1, 2009

The Coca-Cola Company has a new beverage dispensing machine and it is called Freestyle. Freestyle has a touch sensitive 15.1-inch LCD using capacitive technology. So you touch the drink you want and out it comes when you push your glass in. The company chose Zytronic to supply the touch panel for its new Freestyle beverage [...]

Microsoft Future Workplace

March 2, 2009

Microsoft has put out a new video of how our workplaces might look like in the future. Looks pretty cool. Stephen Elop, Microsoft’s Business Division President showed the video in a speech at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Microsoft’s Business Division is working on a lot of projects and this video is [...]

VIS: Viewable Image Size

December 27, 2008

VIS, the term for Viewable Image Size, might have been developed to thwart uncooth business practices by monitor and TV brands. When the tube was king, there were 17″ monitors but you could only use and see 16″. Why? The tubes themselves were actually 17″ but there was a black border around them, due to [...]

CES 2009: CompUSA Retail 2.0

December 18, 2008

CompUSA is currently launching a new hybrid of bricks & mortar and onling shopping the company is calling Retail 2.0. CompUSA recently launched its Retail 2.0 at its Miami Dadeland CompUSA store. The Miami Dadeland store has been completely revamped: all 300 displays are not connected for Internet access. Every computer display and every TV [...]

Costco TV Sales Up 50% Y/Y in November

December 6, 2008

On December 4, 2008, Costco announced November sales results. For the four weeks that ended November 30, 2008, net sales decreased 3% Y/Y from $5.72 billion in 2007 to $5.55 billion in 2008. For the first thirteen weeks ended November 30, 2008, Costco’s net sales increased 3% Y/Y from $16.98 billion in 2007 to $17.52 [...]