Innovations like Prague’s QR code grocery store located in subway stations around the city have already shown how the online shopping world can still maintain a presence in public spaces. In China, e-commerce site Yihaodian is now launching its augmented reality stores, which give customers the impression of a physical store while they browse online. READ MORE…
Subway Platform Supermarket — The Pop-Up City
Killing time at a Korean subway station - shopping at the virtual supermarket by scanning billboards with a smartphone.
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Tesco is aiming to reduce its fuel consumption for home deliveries, by implementing a real time driving analytics system from supplier Microlise. The U.K.’s largest supermarket will install Microlise Fleet and Distribution technology in vans and connect this to its other home delivery IT systems, as it aims to reduce the mileage driven by each van and improve the accuracy of delivery times to Tesco.com customers (via Supermarket to reduce fuel consumption with driving analytics)
“IBM has signed an agreement with Matiq, the information technology subsidiary of Nortura, Norway’s largest food supplier, to use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track and trace poultry and meat products from the farm, through the supply chain, to supermarket shelves.”
