| Is London Calling Amazon Go?; Plus Italic's New Ideas On Direct-to-Consumer Sales; And Lululemon’s Curated Loyalty Offering  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | | | Italic's Brandless Luxury eCommerce | | | | Will consumers pay $120 a year to subscribe to an eCommerce site that offers them items made by luxury manufacturers, without the designer labels? Italic Founder and CEO Jeremy Cai is betting they will — as are the 15 luxury manufacturers that signed on for the site's launch. Some customers, he said, will always be all about the label — but many others are really just after the value. | | ` | | |
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| | | | | | |  | | | | | | Travel Curators Get Local And Personal | | | | A new breed of travel intermediary is tapping into mobile technology to serve up personalized experiences to travelers on varying budgets. Noken, one of these services, creates custom app-based guides for users after it books their hotels, activities and ground transportation. The company’s Co-founder Emily Brockway explains how the service works — and what market void it hopes to fill. Read More... | | |
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| | PYMNTS Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker |
| | |  | | | | | | How Five QSRs Are Tapping Into A Mobile Order-Ahead Future | | | | Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are embracing mobile order-ahead technology to serve customers seeking new ways to order fast food. According to the PYMNTS Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker, these chains are rolling out drive-thru service with lanes dedicated to mobile order pick-ups, as consumers seek to trade the counter for their mobile phones. Read More... | | |
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| | | | |  | | | | | | Big Changes In Unexpected Places | | | | The list of things that are nearly unrecognizable today from the form they were in five years ago — from shopping to saving to borrowing — seems to be getting ever longer. The good news?Enough of the changes are upgrades to get consumers on board, despite the switches that are more concerning. Read More... | | |
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