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Subscription service for men’s underclothes

Posted by Springwise in February 4th 2012

The subscription services are coming thick and fast lately, automating for shopping-weary consumers the routine purchase of life's little necessities. Most recently it was men's skincare p ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Fashion & Beauty, greeting cards, Life Hacks, Retail, socks, USD

Buy a bottle of wine and donate clean water

Posted by Springwise in January 29th 2012

Some 42,000 people die each week for lack of clean water, and the majority of them are children under 5 years old. Aiming to help alleviate this problem, online wine vendor CellarThief don ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Food & Beverage, Non-profit, Social cause, Retail, wine

Florist confirms each bouquet with an e-photo

Posted by Springwise in January 19th 2012

One of the keys to e-commerce success is to ensure that customers know exactly what they're ordering. That has been an elusive goal for florists, thanks to fluctuations in flowers' appeara ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: florists, New Zealand, Retail

No secret recipes at open source restaurant

Posted by Springwise in January 18th 2012

Back in 2008 we wrote about Arne Hendriks's plan to create a crowdsourced restaurant in Amsterdam. As of December, the resulting eatery—called by its founders "the world's first open sou ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Food & Beverage, recipes, Restaurant, Retail

Online art registry for collective gift-buying

Posted by Springwise in January 4th 2012

A few months ago, we covered nAscent Art, which offers a wedding registry service for original art, allowing friends and relatives to make donations towards buying a piece of art for the h ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Life Hacks, New York, Online, Retail, USD

In-store Kraft kiosk recommends recipes based on your face

Posted by Springwise in November 8th 2011

If a vending machine can reward consumers with ice cream when they smile, then why shouldn't one be able to recommend recipes based on their facial features? That, in fact, is precisely the ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Jim Stewart, making, New York, PDF, recipes, Retail

11 Ways to Improve Your Retail Franchise

Posted by PinoyBisnesIdeas in July 24th 2011

Author: Robert Steers Get a theme/brand/niche. One of THE most important things in marketing is that you have to occupy a place in the heart of your customers. There are many words spent on talk ...
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under: Franchising 101
Tags: Business, Retail

Online portal connects all those involved in pop-up retail

Posted by Springwise in July 10th 2011

Much the way FoodHub aims to promote the buying and selling of locally grown food by connecting those on both sides of the purchase equation, so OpenPop-UpShops.com strives to do the same f ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: food, Online, Retail, USD

Tesco tests out drive-through delivery

Posted by Springwise in July 8th 2011

Retailers are experimenting with numerous different ways to blend online and off for their customers, as we've already seen on several occasions. Curbside pickup of online orders has been t ...
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Tags: blend, Retail

Mobile children’s shoe shop is on call for parents

Posted by Springwise in July 7th 2011

We've written about several retailers who have eschewed a bricks and mortar presence in favour of going mobile, including roaming restaurants that bring cuisine to consumers curbside, and a ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: entrepreneurs, Retail

Vending machine rewards mental agility

Posted by Springwise in July 7th 2011

Hard on the heels of our story about the world's first smile-activated vending machine comes word of a similarly paradigm-busting innovation: a machine that dispenses free spring water drin ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Food & Beverage, Marketing & Advertising, Retail

More near-instant e-commerce delivery

Posted by Springwise in July 6th 2011

It's been a few years since we wrote about quick-delivery e-commerce companies MaxDelivery, Lickety Ship and Zifty, but recently we came across a new contender in the field. Launched last ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: London, Retail

Porsche dealership drives customers to outlet mall for shopping while they wait

Posted by Springwise in July 5th 2011

Enabling customers to make the most of their time while their car is being serviced, independent Porsche dealership Autofarm recently began offering a complimentary travel service to and fr ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Automotive, Related Hotel, Retail

Planeshop launches at Glasgow Airport, first brand is K-Swiss

Posted by Springwise in July 5th 2011

Last September, we wrote about Planeshop, an innovative new airport retail concept developed by the pop-up retail pioneers who launched Vacant. Planeshop’s principle is simple: it lets d ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Retail, Tourism & Travel

Luxury women’s panties by curated subscription

Posted by Springwise in July 2nd 2011

The proverbial ink had barely dried on our story about Manpacks when one of our spotters alerted us to an equivalent for women: Panty by Post, a Canadian venture that offers—sure enough� ...
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Tags: CDN, Fashion & Beauty, Retail

Trial gear and showers for runners at Tokyo Adidas store

Posted by Springwise in June 27th 2011

First we saw Gap partner with fitness chain Crunch to turn its rotating New York City concept store into a workout haven for a month. Now, sports brand Adidas is pushing the idea even furt ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Japan, Lifestyle & Leisure, Marketing & Advertising, New York, New York City, Retail, Tokyo

Site aggregates offers from ‘deal a day’ providers

Posted by Springwise in June 24th 2011

Bargain-minded consumers have no shortage of “deal a day” sites to choose from—the challenge now is staying abreast of them all. That means it's time for a little aggregation, which i ...
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Tags: Media & Publishing, Retail

RFID tags used to attach stories to charity shop’s donated wares

Posted by Springwise in June 16th 2011

Launched at this year's Future Everything digital arts festival in Manchester, RememberMe is a collaborative project between TOTeM (Tales of Things and Electronic Memory) and Oxfam which in ...
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Tags: Media & Publishing, Non-profit, Social cause, QR, Retail, RFID

Four inspiring alternatives to traditional restaurants

Posted by Springwise in June 15th 2011

Just as chefs are forever seeking out new ways to fill our bellies, the food industry shows a insatiable appetite for novel concepts, as can be seen in our food & beverage database. Her ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: food, Food & Beverage, Paris, Retail

Grocer launches rooftop garden for hyperlocal produce

Posted by Springwise in June 14th 2011

If Fortnum's can keep bees on its roof and sell the hyperlocal honey they produce, it stands to reason that other purveyors of food should be able to make the most of their rooftops in a si ...
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Tags: Eco & Sustainability, food, Food & Beverage, honey, Retail

Objects’ stories, trackable & brought to life online

Posted by Springwise in June 13th 2011

Regular Springwise readers are already well-acquainted with the concept of product stories and the way they can enhance the value of virtually any good. Similar to the way the Daily Grommet ...
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Tags: Daily Grommet, Media & Publishing, product, Regular Springwise, Retail

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