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The Walgreens mobile app lets customers scan their mobile devices at the register to earn points and redeem awards without the need to carry a physical card. The app allows us to integrate Balance Rewards with other great mobile features, including in-store aisle maps so you can find the school supply or Band-Aid you need, and photo print services so you can send your pictures direct from a mobile device to our store for copies. LoyalBlocks, customers sign up through the app with their favorite stores that participate with the program. When they visit the store, the app communicates with the merchant's tablet, which automatically checks the customer in and sends them token rewards and deals.

"Now, if you dig down, the targeting is not about the location of the beauty parlor, drug store or airport, but that in fact you visited a beauty parlor, drug store or airport. The nature of what types of place you visit, not where they are, is the basis for targeting. If you frequent one or more parks, grocery stores, the zoo and maternity stores, you just might be a Mom, the logic goes. And, the logic seems to work."

Sonic Solutions said today that its movie services will be available on consumer electronics gear sold at Sears and Kmart stores. Novato, Calif.-based Sonic provides the RoxioNow platform, which can deliver digital movies over Internet connections to home devices such as PCs, TVs, Blu-ray players and mobile phones. In a multi-year deal with Sears Holdings, owner of 3,000 Sears and Kmart stores, Sonic will offer movies and TV shows for rent or purchase. The new services are expected to launch later this year and will be broadly promoted at retail stores. used in daily 6.22

q-stores where the majority of product is from the main brand, g-star, but there are other brands in the store whose products compliments g-stars

Korean discount chain E-mart created a flying store that went to every corner of Seoul to reach customers not living near to one of their locations. The "store" was a small truck-shaped balloon equipped with a wi-fi router.

Stores within stores

Most noteworthy of all, Johnson announced JCPenney's plans to completely change the checkout experience at stores. Using advanced Wi-Fi networks, mobile checkout, RFID (radio-frequency identification) tracking systems for goods, and all sorts of self-checkout possibilities, JCPenney will get rid of cashiers, cash registers, and checkout counters, the staples near the exits of virtually every store, as soon as 2014.

"Shopper Sciences, a market research agency, used Affectiva's technology to track the emotions of shoppers over Black Friday last year. They asked in-store shoppers to wear the Affectiva sensor wristband and online shoppers to allow a webcam to watch their faces, in an effort to understand how different emotions might affect spending. They found that people online and in-store experienced similar levels of excitement and stress while shopping, but those who browsed online before heading into stores were less stressed and more confident - and spent an average of $400 more."

Shopkick moved in to trial iBeacon with their service shopBeacon -- installing iBeacon functionality in 100 American Eagle stores nationwide. The move follows a Shopkick trial in 2 Macy's stores

Tracking customers with video cameras to monitor how they move through the stores in what some see as an effort to even the playing field what online retailers who can track consumers using analytics, according to a New York Times report. Stores using the technology include Family Dollar, Benetton and Warby Parker. They use the information to decide on matters like changing store layouts and offering customized coupons, according to the Times report.

Partnership with Redbook and Nearby Now   Working with 65,000 retailers nationwide, NearbyNow has its own concierge team that calls stores to verify if an item is in stock, and then emails the customer within 10 minutes to confirm availability. Customers can then reserve the desired product. Users will only see a "Find It" Button if an item is carried by a local store. Otherwise, they will be directed to online stores that sell the product.

An app that'll pay consumers to check store displays. Keeps brands up to date with the stores and checks up on them by paying consumers that post up pictures of displays (anonymously).  L'Oreal is an example used. 

a bathing ape pop up pirate store in london, releasing a pirate themed shirt each day for the nine days it will be open

popup store within the store itself

Amazon is taking a direct shot at the U.S. Post Office by launching their in-real-life locker box service as a delivery portal for the crap people buy on Amazon.com. They launched in Seattle in 7-Eleven stores, and have recently been spotted in Rite Aide and Gristedes in New York. This isn't an entirely new idea, as Best Buy and Walmart already allow in-store pick-ups of online purchases, but it finally solves the problem of where we can get out Twilight Saga books delivered without having to explain it to our roommates.

32 noteworthy facebook stores from big brands

I wonder if the disappearing store trend is also driven by Millennials that want less things combined Boomers who need less things.

"A new report confirms the significant and growing influence of the Internet and social media in the shopping decisions of U.S. moms. In preparing to go shopping, mothers are 43% more likely to go online to gather coupons and 38% more likely to look at store Web sites than food shoppers as a whole, according to Packaged Facts' "Moms as Food Shoppers: Grocery Store and Supercenter Patterns and Trends" report.  Further, moms are nearly twice as likely as food shoppers overall to have used social media to plan their most recent grocery shopping trip (20% versus 11%). And in addition to consulting blogs prior to shopping, they are increasingly using mobile apps to ensure that they're getting the best deals while shopping. "

"The company is running its new mobile advertising campaign within The Weather Channel's iPhone application. Home Depot has used mobile advertising in the past to bolster brand awareness and engagement. "By adding store location functionality to the ad unit, the brand expertly displays their understanding and appreciation of the unique contextual requirements of an audience made up of a sizable percentage of likely moving targets," said Scott Forshay, mobile and emerging technologies strategist at Acquity Group."