TrendHunter: Berlin’s Kochhaus grocery store is making shopping easy for tired, hardworking customers. Throughout the store are stalls that advertise meal ideas with takeaway recipes that list all the ingredients and the total cost of the meal per person. Meals such as coq au vin and chocolate lava cake from scratch are all easily accessible to Kochhaus grocery store customers. […]
Start at Kochhause for Simple Meals
Open the Shopping Box
CScout: While walking around our neighborhood last week, we checked out the Shopping Box, a relatively recent addition to the many boutiques around SoHo. Unlike other neighborhood shops, however, the Shopping Box is actually dozens of stores in one. Anyone is welcome to rent out a box and fill it with whatever they wish to sell—and we do mean whatever. […]
Your Custom Boardshort
Looking for the hottest new craze in board shorts? This summer, board shorts no longer have to be boring run of the mill shorts. Shortomatic.com has turned the staid board short into a stylish and highly personal style statement with custom-designed and custom-printed shorts made-to-order for each customer. Using proprietary technology, Shortmatic.com enables customers to either create their own design […]
Fruits for your Lunch Box
Fresh Plaza: Del Monte is shaking up the fresh cut section with a brand new range of Del Monte Fruitini bags, these will be sold exclusively by TESCO. Crinkly Apple Slices, Scrummy Grapes, Juicy Pineapple “Slithers” and Luscious Melon Bites are intended for the younger market. This new product is aimed at the lunch box section which has risen 8%. […]
The Next Big Zing
Online video is the fastest-growing medium in history, with 72% of U.S. Web users watching clips online. This fact was a guiding force in the creation of a new online video review shopping site, TheNextBigZing.com, offering consumers a visual and audio experience as they watch reviews of the most innovative products on the market. Since the majority of consumers prefer […]
Personalize Your Own Clever Design
The Graphic Designer’s Shop is a newly launched graphic designer’s shop where people can submit their geeky ideas and then Phases Design Studio will create the artwork. Once the artwork has been created, shoppers can use it on various items such as t-shirts, sweaters, drink coasters and handbags. You can personalize your brilliant design idea on a sweater, get it […]
New Kodak Picture Kiosks
Chip Chick: Kodak is a company looking towards the future of picture sharing. Introducing a new line of products that focuses on accessing and sharing photos through social networks and e-mail, Kodak products are moving away from the old way of sharing pictures and videos and into a new realm. The new booths feature improved sharing features and easier, better […]
No More Visa
Iconoculture: Target is one of the nation’s first major retailers to bring back an old-fashioned form of credit: store-branded plastic that can only be used at Target stores and Target.com. The new credit card will not be branded nor processed by Visa. The retailer has been the third largest issuer of Visa credit cards and now has more than 23 […]
App-etites on the Rise
Iconoculture: App store enhancements are making it easier than ever for consumers to supe up their smartphones. The iTunes Store now has a “Give a Gift” feature just for apps. It allows users to give iPod Touch and iPhone applications and games to friends via email or an actual gift certificate. Developed by Vitrue, the new App Store Facebook page […]
Connecting Consumers with Furnitures
Springwise: London-based Made.com aims to bring original design to the masses by removing middlemen from the process and connecting consumers with furniture makers directly. Along the way, it strives to cut prices by 50 to 80 percent, it says. Consumers begin by browsing through the many items on Made.com’s site; represented there are the works of a variety of young […]