Evolving expectations keep retailers innovating
Vicki Cantrell
In the 18 months since I joined the National Retail Federation, I’ve been struck repeatedly by how rapidly our industry continues to evolve. As we all know, retail has always changed and adapted — and in just the past 20 years we’ve advanced from then-radical game changer Amazon.com to more recent models like Hointer, which boasts what amounts to online shopping in a store. Read More
Hointer: Where Trying-On and Checking-Out is Only a Smartphone Tap Away!
Tyler Burgess
Imagine walking into a retail store where overcrowded rails don’t exist. Where searching for the right size and having to lug a baby elephant-sized amount of variations in color and fit of clothing isn’t your responsibility anymore, and all you have to worry about carrying is a handheld electronic device. Read More
Best of both worlds
Sheena Patel
Hointer is featured in the latest Global Innovation Report by GDR CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE from United Kingdom. Click here to read the report.
Hointer’s In-Store Mobile Experience: Revolutionizing Retail for the Digital Age
Tyler Lacoma
Clothing shoppers beware: Old-fashioned store browsing is going to become irrelevant if start-up Hointer Inc. has its way. This new jeans business — which started in Seattle and has now opened a new branch in Palo Alto — combines in-store mobile apps with shopping to (quite literally) tailor the experience for every customer. Read More
Hointer on TODAY show
Amazon vet’s robot-powered apparel startup expanding to downtown Seattle, Silicon Valley, Las Vegas
Taylor Soper
Things are moving fast for Nadia Shouraboura, the former Amazon exec who’s now running Seattle’s newest men’s clothing store that’s powered by robots and your smartphone… Read More
Next-Gen Retail? Hointer, Bonobos, And Dollar Shave Club
Greg Petro
Creativity abounds in today’s retail world. Whether online or in bricks-and-mortar, companies and people are creating new, innovative ways to bring their brands and visions to life. More importantly, they are redefining how customer acquisition can be achieved, often completely changing the playing field. Read More
Beam Me Up a New Size, Scotty
Carly Hagedon
From the April print edition
After working at Amazon.com for many years, Nadia Shouraboura wanted an experience for customers that embodied the positives of both online and in-store shopping. Her concept, called Hointer, enables customers to complete a shopping transaction solely with their smart phones, from picking out a style to trying on merchandise to paying for the purchase.Read More
Reinventing Retail: Hointer, Seattle
Marianne Wilson
Imagine a store with a back staff of robots, where items appear, almost magically, in the fitting room. A store where customers can pay for merchandise without interacting with a single salesperson. You can stop imagining …check out Hointer, an apparel (mostly men’s jeans) shop in Seattle. A second location is set to open by the end of April, at Stanford Mall, in Palo Alto, Calif. Read More
Clothing Store Utilizes Technology Instead of Salespeople
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Apparel retailers combat e-commerce with hi-tech stores
Ilin Mathew
With increasing competition from e-commerce, several clothing retailers are adopting high-end technologies to attract customers and to compete with online retailers. Seattle, US-based Hointer is an example of high-tech clothing retailer which enables shoppers to experience the ease of online shopping at retail shop coupled with the facility to try and buy garments. Read More
Mixing bricks with clicks
High-Tech-Store in den USA zeigt Shopping-Zukunft
The Future of Retail: Reinventing—and Preserving the In-Store Experience
Hounter, Robot Pintar Mudahkan Pembeli di Toko
Hointer – zrobotyzowany sklep ze spodniami
Adam Kwiatkowski
Półki z wyłożonymi ciuchami i wieczne poszukiwania spodni odpowiedniego rozmiaru sprawiają, że zakupy dla wielu osób, szczególnie mężczyzn, są najgorszym sposobem spędzania czasu. Hointer ma dużą szansę zmienić podejście do zakupów – zamiast tracić czas na wertowanie stosów tekstyliów, wystarczy w smartfonie lub w tablecie podać wymagany rozmiar i poczekać na robota. Read More
Hointer добавляет NFC в новое поколение концепции магазина
Automatic for the People
Fiona Soltes
If you had to sum up the Hointer experience in a word, it might well be “discovery.” Not only uncovering different brands, unique details and fresh ways of shopping at the Seattle clothing retailer, but also testing the boundaries — daily — of what can be done in terms of technology, ease of use and response to customer desires. Read More
La rivoluzione nello shopping on line
Andrea De Mitry
Strabiliante trovata tecnologica del jeans shop di Seattle Hointer. Ha risolto il problema di molti uomini, che non amano perdere tempo in negozio. Grazie ad un codice QR applicato ad ogni jeans, l’uomo tecnologico munito di smartphone può scegliere la misura del modello che vuole provare. Read More
Look Mom, No Shelves
Hointer Gives Men Reasons to Like Shopping
Donna Parshall
The question of how to make men actually like shopping for clothes has stumped retailers for generations. But Hointer, a start-up retailer of men’s jeans with a pilot store in Seattle’s University District, seems to have figured it out: Make it fast. Eliminate the need to paw through piles of clothes or deal with pushy salespeople. Throw in a smartphone and employ a bit of technology that everyone else thought was dead. Oh – and add robots. Read More
Новаторы продаж: прогресс vs кризис
На кризис легко вешать любых собак: безработицу, падение продаж, снижение прибыли. Но как ошибается тот, кто ждет, что все вернется на круги своя. Как прежде уже не будет. И причиной тому прогресс, а не кризис. Безотказные роботы и технологии оказались выгодней персонала с его человеческим фактором и соцпакетом. Главное – правильно их применять. Вот, как новаторы делают это. Read More
Store Offers Real-World Version of Online Shopping
Ivan Schneider
Shopping at Hointer, a Seattle menswear store, feels like walking into a web page.
Instead of stacks of folded jeans from floor to ceiling, Hointer’s showroom for denim displays rows of jeans at eye level, categorized by brand. You can inspect the merchandise front and back without seeing or touching a clothes hanger. Read More
Where technology and clothing collide: Hointer
Robb Zerr
Any man will tell you that shopping for clothes is at the very bottom of his “to do” list. It’s hard to get excited about wading through piles of neatly folded clothes, guessing which ones are the right size, only to have a sales associate hovering over you, waiting for you to need a dressing room. Read More
Hointer welcomes American Society of Interior Designers
Customer experience & Qr code per Hointer e il jeans self-service
Il jeans, come la scarpa, non è un capo ma uno stile di pensiero. Lo sa bene Hointer che per venderli ha analizzato la customer experience al punto da capitolare, rinunciando al commesso per trasformare il servizio in autentico fai da te. Come? Trasformando la jeanseria in un concept store ad alta innovazione. 150 modelli diversi, esposti con un qr code che consente di scegliere la taglia e di visualizzare in quale camerino si può fare la prova. Read More
Today’s Seattle for Japanese
Innovacion en procesos, no en conseguir “Me gusta”
Une enseigne de jeans américaine se passe de personnel
Johan Van Geyte
Pour tous les hommes allergiques au shopping, voici peut-être la solution. L’enseigne de jeans américaine Hointer lance un magasin entièrement automatisé sans personnel. Fini les multiples essais, les vendeuses envahissantes et les longues files d’attente à la caisse. Read More
Hointer, vaqueros con códigos QR
La compra con códigos QR se va imponiendo poco a poco como alternativa al retail tradicional. Una de las últimas iniciativas llega de Estados Unidos, concretamente de Seattle. Allí, Hointer, especializada en la venta de pantalones vaqueros, está utilizando esta tecnología para hacer la compra más fácil y placentera al cliente masculino, evitando la engorrosa tarea de buscar modelo y talla entre montones de ropa. Read More
Hointer rend l’achat en boutique physique complètement automatisé
Hointer Makes Shopping For Jeans Easier For Men
In this picture Ignition’s Partner Michelle Goldberg and the founder of SquareHub, Dave Cotter, are having fun, watching the sexiest man alive (Geekwire’s Chairman Jonathan Sposato) trying on a pair of 7′s.
It is a well-known fact that men don’t like to shop. Take them to a mall and they would want to either find a bar or a place to sit. While it may be a little unfair to throw a blanket statement like this over ALL men, brick and mortar businesses find the ‘problem’ serious enough to try to find a ‘solution’. Yes, men do DO some shopping….if only it wasn’t as troublesome and if only it didn’t have to take that long. Read More
Guys and Dollars: How Groceries, Barbies, Fashion and More Are Being Marketed to Men
Hointer brings QR codes to men’s fashion
Stephanie Beck
Hointer, a new tech-savvy clothing retailer, has opened its first branch in Seattle, Washington. The store caters to men’s fashion by selling a wide variety of jeans. While the opening of a new clothing store is rarely a noteworthy event, Hointer is significantly different from traditional retailers. Read More
Ladengeschäfte mit Online-Logistik: Ex-Amazon Mitarbeiterin möchte Fashion-Shopping revolutionieren
Hointer- חווית קנייה חדשה של ג’ינסים בחנויות
Hointer הבינו ששופינג וגברים זה לא הולך ביחד אז הוסיפו קצת טכנולוגיה. רוב הגברים לא אוהבים שופינג
ולהסתובב שעות בין חנויות, מתקשים להבדיל בין כל הדגמים והמידות, לא אוהבים מוכרים שמתעלקים עליהם
או להתחיל ולמדוד יותר מזוג מכנסיים אחד. הרעיון פה פשוט אבל חכם עם שימוש בטכנולוגית QR קוד שכל
אחד מכיר. ויחד עם הערכות נכונה יוצר סביבת קניה אחרת ומאוד נוחה לגברים. Read More
5 shopping trends that came out of 2012 stealth
Teresa Novellino
So what were the top trends of 2012 in retail? Topping a year that has seen so-so holiday sales so far but double-digit gains online, most of the innovations involved technology that made it easier to shop online, particularly for apparel. Read More
Retail innovation trends of the year
Retail entrepreneurs are constantly on the look out for new ways to grab consumers’ attention to get them to shop and buy.
Just one innovation in fashion retail this year includes adding more technology in brick-and-mortar stores such as Hointer, Read More
Hointer ร้านขายเสื้อผ้าแบบ “กึ่งออนไลน์”
A jeans store for men who hate to shop
The Hointer Shopping Experience: Buying jeans from a robot-powered apparel startup
Jonathan Sposato
Join GeekWire CEO Jonathan Sposato as he explores Hointer, a store that combines technology and traditional shopping. Think of it as the high-tech, modern shopping experience: something that is as fast and efficient as buying online, but still allows you to try on and touch the clothing. View More
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