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Recession Special? Amazon shuts down 3 warehouses in the US | AllThingsD

Amazon announced Thursday that it is closing three distribution centers and will cut/transfer the 210 employees.

Amazon Closes Book on Distribution Centers | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Product pictures on steroids

Silverdock produces video for online retailers, and cheap too, starting at $100 a piece.
Here's their cool take on how to showcase clothing. Ain't that great?




Also check out this selection of my past posts on online videos for shopping:
http://michaelslevy.blogspot.com/2008/04/video-merchandising-features-coming-up.html
http://michaelslevy.blogspot.com/2008/05/video-merchandising-contd-video.html
http://michaelslevy.blogspot.com/2008/05/more-video-powered-online-sales.html
http://michaelslevy.blogspot.com/2008/08/more-video-you-can-shop.html

Noca offers merchants zero-fee online payment processing

"Noca, a startup founded by ex-Visa employees, is attempting to virtually eliminate transaction fees by bypassing the credit card companies altogether with its own online payment service. Since $5 billion goes towards online transaction fees every year in the United States alone, and since online vendors have particularly slim profit margins, the company thinks that the near elimination of transaction fees would be a huge boon for online vendors. Concurrently, Noca seeks to provide consumers with a more rewarding and more secure purchasing experience, thereby making its service appealing to both actors involved in a transaction." - From Techcrunch.

Zero processing fees, zero start-up costs, zero recurring costs.

(Currently available for merchants with a US bank account only)

... Anyone trying it out, please give me a ring ...

ShopSavvy: a shopping assistant for your cellphone... If it's an Android phone, that is...

ShopSavvy is a shopping assistant developed for Google’s Android mobile phone platform and was T-Mobile’s featured application for their US launch of the G1 in October of 2008. Users can scan the bar code of any product using their phone’s built-in camera. ShopSavvy will then search for the best prices online and through the inventories of nearby, local stores using the phone’s built-in GPS. ShopSavvy won Google’s Android Developer Challenge and is available in Google’s Market.

Big in Japan - Developers of ShopSavvy or Shop Savvy

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"Oldy but goody": a 2007 Social Shopping initiative

The US Lost Boys Interactive Group agency IconNicholson deployed a pretty cool multichannel retail event back in 2007, called the Social Retailing™ concept, for fashion designer Nanette Lepore, to demonstrate how young shoppers could move from online to mobile, interacting through text messaging, instant messaging and email for a unique shopping experience.

Here's a video overview of the project:



Official press release from IconNicholson here.

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