Digital POS Innovations to Save the Retail Store

There are so many online sales or e-commerce that offers many kind of products and services. This trends will kill the store retail and it will affect their sales. The store retail nowadays fighting back which it fighting digital fire with digital fire using digital POS (Point Of Sale) technology. This technology allow them to:

• Turn legacy in-store commerce into ‘destination commerce’ experiences worth visiting
• Transform showrooming threat into an opportunity adaptive POS that offers online price matching
• Create a seamless ‘omnichannel’ experience that links up in-store commerce to e-commerce
• Harness the opportunity of cost effective and easy to use iOS smartphone/tablet devices for POS

Below is some of the new digital additional POS innovations that capture some of these big trends.


1. Harris + Hoodle Coffee (UK) smartphone POS application. This application lets customers to order, pay for, and get loyalty points.

Click URL below for video: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kJDWfQ8BiRE

2. Kate Spade (NYC) – Real Window Shopping.  The next generation pop-up shop is just a shop window.  Around NYC this summer Kate Spade (using eBay’s shoppable windows technology) created high visibility ‘fake’ stores with real windows featuring a real giant POS ‘tablet’ that consumers can shop from.  Offers 1 hour local delivery.

Click URL below for video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdotI0wax4Y

3. The Bingham Hotel (London) ‘Pay with Your Face’.  Simply show your face to the checkout clerk, and if it matches the PayPal profile photo they have. It is because customer have checked in on PayPal POS smartphone application using the new ’Local’ tab which it allow them charge your room to your PayPal account. 

Click URL below for video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKPhc7Qx4t4

4. Kiehls (NYC) interactive display tables by Perch interactive projection screening onto display table provide information and views about products on display.

 

Click URL below for video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BqthP1aBIM#t=46 

5. Casino supermarkets (France) NFC tags on shelves offer product information and allow self-checkout using smartphone as mPOS.

Click URL below for video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIsb7Y0TFtA#t=26




6. Kellogg’s Tweet Store (London) Pop-up sample store in London with ePOS where you pay with a Tweeter.

 Click URL below for video:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWSRRLFPCYk#t=32