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Automated Fitting Rooms : high tech retail

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Macy's is experimenting with Hointer's Fitting Room tech - Enter your size and items are sent through a chute to the dressing room

TrendHunter.com - At its Manhattan Beach store in California, Macy’s is experimenting with some of the high-tech retail technology available today. This includes... See more

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@GDI (2): Nadia Shouraboura erklärt, wie Roboter das Einkaufen menschlicher machen

@GDI (2): Nadia Shouraboura erklärt, wie Roboter das Einkaufen menschlicher machen

Da bedurfte es einer russischen Mathematikerin, Läden einmal ganz anders zu denken. Nadia Shouraboura verblüffte das Publikum bei der Internationalen Handelstagung nicht nur mit ihrem temperamentvollen Vortrag. Sondern auch durch ihren revolutionären Ansatz, das Einkaufserlebnis im stationären Handel neu zu gestalten.

Als langjährige Logistikchefin von Amazon war Shouraboura gewohnt, Probleme in…

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Men notoriously dislike shopping for clothing. Then along came the Hointer Beta Store, adding robots to the equation to make the experience as fast and simple as ordering a cup of coffee! Yes—you heard right—robots! Convenient—and seriously sci-fi On the outside, Hointer is a traditional brick-and-mortar retailer, but when customers step through the door, the [...]

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Is this the future of bricks and mortar shopping?

Startup Hointer combines traditional retail with technology to take some of the friction out of shopping.

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Jeans store uses QR codes to make shopping easier for men

Hointer uses the technology to break down the traditional retail model and help make clothes shopping pain-free.

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The future of shopping...

The lengthy, predominantly male queues outside Apple shops on launch days suggest that, contrary to received wisdom, not all men hate shopping. Yet the impression that they do periodically prompts retailers to try and re-invent the activity to appeal to the more retail-reluctant half of the population. The latest such ploy is a high-tech clothing chain called Hointer, which opened its first branch in Seattle last month selling jeans. Hointer has no over-solicitous sales assistants, no confusing piles of clothes and no endless lines at the tills. Instead, only one of each style of jeans is displayed on the shop floor. Shoppers use a smartphone app to scan items they wish to try on, and choose a size and colour.

The app sends a message over the internet to a robotic system in the stock room. This locates a pair in the correct size and uses tensioned cables to drop it into a basket in one of the shop’s six large dressing rooms. When Babbage tried it, the whole process took less than the time to walk to the fitting room, around 30 seconds. If the jeans fit, customers can simply put them in a bag, swipe their credit card through a reader and walk out the door without ever interacting with another person.

... will be like buying clothes online but in real life. 

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QR Codes + Jeans = Man Shopping Nirvana

Aimed at men who don’t like shopping, Hointer also uses the technology to break down the traditional retail model and help make clothes shopping pain-free. 

Located in Seattle, customers walking into the store are greeted by a floor that contains only one pair of each model of jeans available. The jeans are tagged with a QR code that – when scanned using the store’s bespoke app – delivers a pair in the chosen size to a fitting room in the store and alerts the customer which room to go to. Once the jeans have been tried, customers can either send the jeans back into the system or swipe their card using a machine in each fitting room to make a purchase. "

(via Springwise)

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