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Daily Dose of iQ: Verizon Opens New Flagship Store at Mall of America

On Tuesday (Nov. 19), Verizon announced its newest flagship store, dubbed the "Verizon Destination Store," at Minneapolis' Mall of America. And what a destination it is: The store spans nearly 10,000...

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Daily Dose of iQ: You're More Likely to Buy Something When Shopping On Your iPad

New research from has found that the "endowment effect" (where people increase the value of something when they take ownership of it) can happen via a touch interface – and especially when using an...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Black Friday Weekend Stats Up for Online, Down for In-Store

Bloomberg News reported yesterday (Dec. 3, via Advertising Age) that, according to IBM, Cyber Monday hit a single-day record for online shopping, up 19% year-over-year. Mobile traffic accounted for 30%...

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Daily Dose of iQ: 'Retailing has become a multichannel free-for-all'

The 2013 holiday season has been a good one for consumers, but not such a good one for retailers, according to MIT marketing professor Sharmila Chatterjee."Retailing has become a multichannel...

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Rethink Retail: Connecting with Today's Mobile Consumer

Smartphones have dramatically changed the way people shop. What consumers want: Omnichannel shopping experiences Today’s mobile consumer has unprecedented access to product and pricing information. The...

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iQmetrix Acquires Website Developer Zebop Wireless (Web Werkz) to Deliver...

VANCOUVER, BC - January 14, 2014 – iQmetrix, the leading provider of retail management software for independent North American wireless retailers, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Zebop...

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iQmetrix Acquires Vancouver Startup Web Werkz for its E-Commerce Offerings

Link to original article. Date: Jan. 14, 2014 Published on: Betakit.com In a deal involving two relatively unknown Vancouver companies, iQmetrix, a provider of retail management software for...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Not All Luxury Brands Clamoring for Tech

In the week after NRF, a lot has been made about retailers trying to implement new technology to deliver an omnichannel experience and compete with Amazon. But not all brands are doing that. Yesterday,...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Rogers Announces 'Mobile Shopper' Platform

As BetaKit's John Gray reported today, Canadian carrier Rogers Communications has announced a new platform called "Mobile Shopper," which will enable customers to engage with brands in-store through...

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Daily Dose of iQ: 6 Ways E-Commerce is Becoming Omnichannel

Econsultancy's Ben Davis recently wrote a blog post entitled "Six omnichannel trends in e-commerce" (April 15).Davis says retail sales totaled over $15 trillion in 2013, of which 1.2 trillion (more...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Walgreens App Pushes In-Store Promos and Inventory

Mobile Commerce Daily reported yesterday (April 23) on how Walgreens' app has been updated to offer more personalized and store-specific promotions to customers."The new Weekly Ad feature introduced...

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Daily Dose of iQ: 3 Ways Mobile Marketing Drives In-Store Visits

"Mobile is more than a channel -- it's a behavior,"wrote Jeff Fagel of G/O Digital in a guest post on VentureBeat today.Fagel implores marketers to stop limiting mobile as a channel only. He suggests...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Introducing the New Facebook ‘Buy’ Button

WIRED reported today on the new Facebook "Buy" button, ushering in a new era for the ubiquitous social network. No longer will it just sell space for advertisers; it will sell space for retailers...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Verizon Offering 'Smart Rewards' in Exchange for Customer...

On July 24, Verizon is launching a nationwide loyalty program called "Smart Rewards."Verizon Smart Rewards requires customers to reveal their location, browsing, app usage, demographic and personal...

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Australian Retailers Lag in Omnichannel Tech: Frost & Sullivan

New research from Frost & Sullivan has found that fewer than 30% of Australian retailers currently offer a mobile site and only 21% have developed a mobile app to serve customers.The study, which...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Zappos Testing #AskZappos Social Commerce Service

Yesterday (July 28), Inc. reported on a customer service first from Zappos, called Ask Zappos, which works like a personal shopper/concierge."Customers can send images to an Ask Zappos personal shopper...

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Daily Dose of iQ: 'VMBeacons' Offer Vast Potential for Storefront Commerce

Yesterday (Aug.12), TechCrunch reported on VMBeacons (short for Visual Merchandising Beacons), mannequins that send product/purchase info for the clothes they're displaying to shoppers' phones using...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Spring App Lets Fashion Brands Connect with Users, Drive Sales

Yesterday (Aug. 14), VentureBeat reported on Spring, a brand-new iOS app that promotes fashion brands directly to consumers. The app curates "lifestyle imagery" of selected products to appeal to users...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Gleam's Back-End B2B Platform Lets Fashion Brands Analyze...

Last week, we blogged about Spring, an app that basically refers users to fashion brands’ e-commerce (and m-commerce) sites. Sort of along the same lines, TechCrunch wrote yesterday (Aug. 21) about an...

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Daily Dose of iQ: E-Commerce and the Next-Gen Store this Holiday Season

The line between online and in-store shopping has been blurred for some time, but never more than this holiday season.A couple links we came across yesterday sort of occupy that gray area, known to...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Self-Serve Mobile Customers versus 'Destination Retail'

Today, we read on the Pymnts.com blog that 58% of mobile shoppers would rather look up information on their mobile device than ask a question to a sales associate.They referred to a study, from the...

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Daily Dose of iQ: A Wrap-Up of 2014 Black Friday Retail Trends

What were the important retail trends from Black Friday 2014? Depends who you ask.IBM said (in Forbes yesterday - Dec. 4), mobile shopping went up this year: "On Black Friday, online sales were up 9.5...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Nike's New SNKRS App Combines Content Marketing with Social...

Mashable reported yesterday (Feb. 17) on "SNKRS,"Nike's new mobile app directed at sneaker fanatics. "The app puts Nike's vast selection of shoes in the palm of your hand, mixing obsessive sneaker...

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Visa: Australians Willing to Pay With Their Phones

News.com.au reported yesterday (Feb. 24) that, according to new research from Visa, Australians are ready for a new payment system that would allow consumers to pay with anything from a smartwatch to a...

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Daily Dose of iQ: REVOLVE Clothing Offering Same-Day Delivery to Coachella...

The annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival is taking place in Indio, Calif. over the next two weekends (April 9-12 and 16-19) and the event is a place to see and be seen for young people from all...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Six Mobile Apps Reducing Friction in Retail

Last week (April 16), Brainstree published a list of six apps on PSFK. apps that are "making mobile transactions frictionless." Some of these (Google Wallet, for one), I'd heard of before, but others,...

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Daily Dose of iQ: J.C. Penney Releases Shopping App for Apple Watch

The new Apple Watch hit store shelves a week ago (April 24) and J.C. Penney wasted no time designing an m-commerce app for the device.The Washington Post's Sarah Halzack wondered (April 27) if the new...

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Daily Dose of iQ: The Future of Retail Combines In-Store and E-Commerce

I came across an interesting article from L2 the other day (May 1), which made a bold claim: "Macy's will be the most successful retailer of the next five years, not Amazon," wrote L2's Scott...

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Daily Dose of iQ: 'Spylight' App Lets Users Shop TV, Movie Screens

Today, we discovered an interesting second-screen called "Spylight," which allows you to buy what you see on a given TV show or movie.Like Shazam, Spylight scans the audio of the show/movie to identify...

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Daily Dose of iQ: Google Announces 'Buy' Button for Mobile Search Results

Back in May, Google announced features to its mobile AdWords to help advertisers determine ROI. Soon after that, Google introduced "Place an order" functionality to mobile restaurant search results,...

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