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Sensory Enabling Technologies are Radically Reshaping the Future of Digital Retail

Retail TouchPoints

These are more than fancy gadgets; they are innovative systems that provide a glimpse of a new “embodied” online retail environment — one where brands provide digital customers with multisensory spatial experiences like those observed in brick-and-mortar stores. 2006; Simmons et al. as well as product perceptions (i.e.,

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7 Hot Takes On The Death Of Traditional Physical Retail

Demac Media

Refinery29 point out that just over 10 years ago in 2006, 94% of malls were considered “healthy”, in 2015 that number dropped to 80%. Consumers are either weary to spend, or heading online for some retail therapy. People aren’t shopping like they use to, and shopping in general has stagnated.

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