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Mobile to the rescue for Black Friday online sales

I am in San Francisco at the moment, meeting with the PeopleBrowsr crew and some other key clients and partners. I arrived over the weekend, so had a chance to indulge in some retail therapy on a wet Sunday afternoon. What struck me is that everywhere I went, people were talking about or promoting Black [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted November 21, 2011 in mobile | Tagged Alan Moore, allure of the mobile society, barcodes, Black Friday, Black Friday mobile deals, boxing dat sales, mobile only offers, mobile price check, New York Times, NYT, PeopleBrowsr, point of creative impulse, price comparison, qr code, tesco clubcard, thanksgiving, Thanksgiving sales | Comments (0)

New York Times article on the use of QR codes in retail and on TV

Recently I was asked by Stephanie Clifford from the New York Times to contribute my thoughts to an article on QR codes, and their use in a retail environment. The resulting article “Scan-to-Buy Gets a Trial on Television” appears at lc.tl/nytqr As a well known QR sceptic, I thought it worthwhile publishing the questions Stephanie put to me [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted October 10, 2011 in QR codes | Tagged home shopping network, home shopping network qr codes, HSN, New York Times, NYT, QR, QR codes, scan to buy gets a trial on TV, stephanie clifford | Comments (2)

The future of newspapers could be the iPad

On my recent trip to Sydney, I picked up an iPad (around £100 cheaper in Australia given I could claim back the 10% GST as I was taking it out of the country, and it is not subject to the “cost of doing business in the UK” Apple tax). What has amazed me is that everyone [...]

By Andrew Grill | Posted August 5, 2010 in iPad | Tagged AFR, apple, Australian Financial Review, Fairfax, financial times, FT, FT iPad app, FT.com, iPad, iPad app, iPad ready, Ipad web app, iphone, itunes, New York Times, news, newspaper consumption, newspapers, newsprint, newsprint fingers, online news, Pressreader, sydney, sydney morning herald, Wall Street Journal, WSJ | Comments (15)