Amazon 4-Star: When Online Retail Hits a Bricks ‘n’ Mortar Wall

Amazon 4-Star: When Online Retail Hits a Bricks ‘n’ Mortar Wall I’m a great admirer of Amazon. So, let’s move away from the nonsense that Amazon is killing retail. Amazon is a retailer and is leading a retail transformation. It may not be founded on designing, producing and selling its own products (although that is gathering irresistible momentum) but it is no less a retailer than Toys R Us, or-

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Apple Digital Garden: A Natural Evolution

It is a fair claim to say that Apple revolutionised retail just as it had with entertainment, work and communications channels before. This visionary business realised that the value of theatre and physical interaction was at the core of the retail experience; and that immediate sales were only a secondary objective for directly owned stores in the reassurance that an Apple sale would still be the likely outcome enacted efficiently-

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Watch & Wonder: Selfridges Serves up an Apple Experience

Time is money and when it comes to Apple that money and revenue can be sizable, so speed to market and proximity to the pockets of its patrons is an essential element to retrieving its return on investment.   In a collaboration of near colossal proportions Apple has taken chronological control of all of Selfridges’ windows on London’s Oxford Street to present a breathtaking, time making, statement of market intent.-

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Rules of Engagement: Game Changing Louis Vuitton

Not for the first time, it has taken a traditional brand to demonstrate how new technology and social engagement can enhance a reputation, communicate a product line and win over the hearts of both new and old alike, with humour, interaction and fun.

 

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To promote its collection of leather cases for iphone, pads and books the brand has gone back to the heritage of computer games into the memories of its core customer, adding a new touch and freshness that will appeal to the sons and daughters of the rich & famous. In a combination of space invaders and video tennis Loius Vuitton uses cases as spacemen, destroyed at will in the defence of good taste and beautiful products.

The landing page is, as ever, beautifully created with a demonstration video, product information and of course the game itself in three levels of difficulty. This is not child’s play, but Louis Vuitton makes the game of social engagement look easy as it sweeps to victory in the power world of luxury brands.

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