SYRACUSE, NY
October 15, 2018
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Many people find themselves browsing dozens of sites for discounts, when they want to find a good local spot to eat, or they want to support local small businesses. The more tech-savvy use apps, but they end up utilizing several for all of these purposes. Scoutmob is an app that can change all of that completely. It combines the benefits of services like Yelp, Groupon, and Etsy into one easy-to-use app that allows you to get great deals on food, support local businesses and makers, buy hand-made and eat local, and search reviews (as well as leave your own). Read more »
Retailers will do just about anything they can to be able to most effectively engage customers, and these customers are constantly seeking a better shopping experience. Point Inside is a startup that seeks to help shoppers with their retail experience while utilizing that experience to aid retailers as well. As its creators describe it, it is an app helps mobile shoppers search, plan, and complete their in-store shopping trips with digital in-store product location solutions. In doing so, it helps businesses better engage shoppers and encourages them to continue shopping in the future as recurring customers. Read more »
It is easy enough to find a good deal on the items you want, whether that means searching through the Sunday paper, clipping coupons, or using websites such as Amazon or eBay. Unfortunately, however, these methods are very often time-consuming and sometimes fruitless. Even with mobile devices, finding a bargain may require you to install several apps, possibly even on a brand-by-brand basis or through many individual companies, and an online retailer may not always have what you are hoping to find. Fortunately, there is Upside, which helps you save money simply by linking an online account with existing social media to let you find all the discounts that once required much more effort or the use of many different mobile apps. Upside is a quick, paperless option that works with a large range of major brands at any store that accepts coupons. Online retailers can be cheap, but Upside can give you discounts in real time while you are out shopping, even on items that are already on sale. Read more »
Image recognition capability is an extremely useful aspect of mobile technology that many retailers have put to use thus far, and it has benefited many people. This technology has many applications from something as basic as getting more information about an object to allowing consumers to compare prices between items in a store. Shopper is an app from Slyce, a leading visual search provider for retailers and brands, that uses visual recognition searching to aid you while grocery shopping. While the ability to scan barcodes has made it much easier for people to comparison shop, Shopper makes it easier by letting users add various items to their grocery shopping lists just by snapping their pictures. Read more »
There are many websites and mobile apps that reward users for shopping, but Affinity.IS is much more. The premise of the app is that shopping has always been a game, but now it is one users can win. Its developers advertise it as a so-called “Influencing System,” claiming that it provides new technology in order to help businesses attract more customers by having celebrities reward those same customers for shopping with them. It does not stop there, though; it connects its users with sports teams, local retailers, and even social causes and charities who can all, in turn, aid each other. Read more »
Gamification is becoming a major trend in the worlds of technology and retail. Gaining points and rewards for your purchases is now a standard practice for many large chain stores or shopping websites in every retail category. However, most of the time the goal of earning points simply leads to future discounts on more merchandise from the same store. While customers might appreciate those discounts, cool person in technology Daniel Todd believes that it would be even better if customers could get rewards from shopping that would not be easily attainable otherwise. Todd’s company Affinity offers retail companies a system where their customers don’t just receive discounts or merchandise from the same store they are already shopping at, but instead receive exclusive and unique rewards donated by celebrities. Under Todd’s system, people can shop at retail locations affiliated with Affinity and earn points for each purchase at each of those stores. People can then use those points to get special and unique prizes from their favorite celebrities on the Affinity platform. Users can access Affinity’s shop through the company’s web platform on their computers or mobile devices. Any users experiencing difficulty while trying to access Todd’s rewards platform should contact a network services provider for help with their connection. Read more »
There are many apps that look to replace the use of loyalty and rewards cards in retail stores in restaurants. A growing number tech companies are also looking to make smartphones into a way to make everyday payments in the physical world as well. Other apps exist to help customers gain rewards for spending their money as part of a new marketing model powered by mobile technology. However, cool person in technology Ned Moore didn’t found his startup Clutch to do just one of these things but all of them. Clutch is an app for both Android and Apple mobile devices that aims to replace users’ physical wallets altogether. On Clutch, people can add all the physical cards they would normally keep in their wallets, such as store loyalty cards or gift cards, so they can shop directly from the app. Moore also lets users add credit cards to the app along with store cards and gift cards. Moore even lets people add coupons for one-time deals when shopping with the app. Users who have trouble downloading the app or adding any type of card to it need to find a smartphone tech support service to help them. Read more »
One of the biggest downfalls of shopping for clothes online is the inability to try something on before a customer makes a purchase. With the exception of casual clothing like t-shirts and sweatpants, trying on clothing to see how it fits is an essential step in choosing someone’s wardrobe. While shopping online beats out going to a store in convenience, it will always remain an issue that people cannot try on the clothes they purchase first. Cool person in technology Ankus Seghal founded BranDiD to erase this problem and introduce a service that allows people to try on the clothes they want to buy even when shopping on the web. Read more »
While online shopping has become the norm for many people, many still prefer to shop in physical stores. This is especially true for home-based products like furniture and decoration. No matter how many pictures someone looks at online, seeing the physical product in person is always preferable when it’s going to be on display in one’s home.
Cool person in technology Alex Loizou has created a product that uses the resources of the web to help people who prefer to shop in the physical world. Loizou’s product StreetHub has a database of items on sale in retail shops and boutiques. Using GPS technology to cross-reference with this database, Loizou’s website connects users with nearby shops that carry the specific products and items they want. This way, a user can browse through products online but still go out and purchase them from a physical store once they find what they want from the convenience of their home. If someone is on Loizou’s site and sees a set of table and chairs they like, or any other product, that person can still go to the store and see it in person before buying. StreetHub could be a godsend for anyone who has ever bought items online only for them to be very different than a shopping website represented them. Since StreetHub uses Wi-Fi and GPS to determine location, someone who has a computer with these features broken may need home computer repair to use Loizou’s service. Read more »