Supermarkets One To One. The next VR game?
Posted: May 27, 2016 Filed under: English | Tags: 3D, Consumer, Digital, Experience, Generations, Shopper Marketing, Technology, VR Leave a comment
In my last posts I tried to foresee what could be the future of retail in terms of shopper interaction, from augmented reality, predictive recommendation throughdigital personal valets, or e-commerce automated recurring purchases. In this one I will cover the topic from a completely different perspective.
Some say that wandering the supermarkets aisles is something people are still willing to do in the future, that’s why an Augmented Reality solution (Watch the latest demo of Microsoft HoloLens here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0BDw4VHNo ) will help them to maintain their shopping habits (not sure about Millennials or Gen Zs willing to do it, though). Read the rest of this entry »
How Big Data will change the way you shop.
Posted: March 18, 2016 Filed under: English, General | Tags: Big Data, Brands, Consumer, Predictive Modelling, Retail, Shopper Marketing, Technology Leave a comment
Predicting your purchases will enable automatic recurring orders that are sent home just at the perfect moment, when you’re running out of a product.
Saturday morning, after procrastinating your visit to the supermarket the whole week, you review your shopping list in your way to the mall. Milk, Yogurts, Beer, Juices, Sodas… you ran out of those at some moment in the past 7 days, but you work late and don’t have the time for a visit to your usual store. There are convenience shops with those products close to work, but they are more expensive and you only purchase there in case of emergency, typically buying some beers and snacks for inviting your friends the same evening. After all, you can survive some days without juice and you can take the coffee on the go or at the office (not sure about toilet paper, though, but I guess it’s in the emergency category anyway…) Read the rest of this entry »
Shopper Analytics vs. Free Will. How much can we predict people’s behavior?
Posted: November 16, 2015 Filed under: English | Tags: Big Data, Brain, Change Management, Digisphere, Marketing, Moore's Law, Philosophy, Shopper Marketing, Singularity, Technology Leave a comment
The future is here. The huge amount of shopper data generated every minute(*) in retailers all over the world is allowing Watson-like machines to predict what we are going to buy, where and when, pushing us to buy more, more often. And this is not going to get better. Collected data will include different types of behaviors (not only transactions, but digital interactions, social influence, physical movements in and out store…), and machines will increase their power to a point where by 2030 a $1000 computer will be a thousand times more powerful than a single human brain. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Lego be the Next Blockbuster?
Posted: February 17, 2015 Filed under: English | Tags: Brands, Change Management, Consumer, Digital, Gaming, Generations, Organizations, Technology Leave a commentBillund, Denmark. It was autumn 2010 when the head of innovation at Lego stepped into Jørgen Vig Knudstorp’s office, CEO at Lego Group. He discovered an emerging Swedish studio, Mojang, that was basically making a virtual construction platform (note the term platform vs. game). The first platform of the kind was released more than 15 years ago (with the Doom WADs), so this was nothing new. Even Lego had produced their own “sandbox” in 1998, the Lego Creator. But this new game had something else, a community of contributors, almost unlimited user generated content, some secret rules for object crafting that were not directly exposed by the studio in any tutorial, and the ability of playing online within the same world between users. Oh, yes, and some skeletons, monsters, spiders and zombies wandering around. Read the rest of this entry »
Constant Change Ahead 