Blue Apron's Potential Profit; Plus North's New Take On Smart Glasses; And Saks Brings A Taste Of Paris to NYC Store | | | | | | | | | | | | | Can North's Focals Succeed Where Google Glass Failed? | | Google Glass was heavily hyped when the idea circulated, but ultimately the execution turned consumers off, and the product crashed and burned. But in commerce, there are always second acts — and North thinks its Focals smart glass product has fixed the bugs that broke the Google Glass. | | |
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| | | | | | | Tackling Restaurant Waste With Mobile Apps | | Restaurants often seek to find innovative ways to get rid of unused food without having to just trash it. Now, mobile apps such as Feedback are providing marketplaces to connect these businesses with diners to sell these surplus meals. The company’s Co-founder Josh Walters explains how the service leverages discounts that vary with the time of day to help restaurants sell food that might otherwise go unsold. Read More... | |
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| | | | | With Nod To Retail’s Golden Age, Department Stores Reach Back To Restaurants | | In a nod to retail’s golden age, department stores are reaching back to their rich legacies of in-store, upscale restaurants, which catered to shoppers at places like B. Altman and Bloomingdale’s. As retailers contend with eCommerce and direct-to-consumer competitors, Saks Fifth Avenue recently opened its L’Avenue eatery in New York City. Can a Parisian restaurant help convince customers to shop in-store instead of online in the digital age? Read More... | |
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| | | | | | Innovating Out Of A Challenge | | There is no shortage of problems in the world as of early 2019 — which is, of course, bad news. The better news is that there is also no shortage of innovators and entrepreneurs who aim to fix problems as big as healthcare costs and as small as creating a functional vending machine. Read More... | |
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